Jeremy Denk takes part in three performances for the Laguna Beach Music Festival this weekend. John Adams can be heard from Miami, Madrid, and Melbourne to Tallinn, Riga, and Berlin. Laurie Anderson performs her piece Songs for Amelia Earhart with the Filharmonie Brno in Kansas City. Rhiannon Giddens headlines Fort Mose Jazz and Blues in St. Augustine, FL. Emmylou Harris is in The Villages, FL. Brad Mehldau Trio tours Spain, starting in Sevilla. Mandy Patinkin concludes his Being Alive winter tour in New Jersey. Joshua Redman is in Cincinnati.
Jeremy Denk takes part in three performances at Laguna Playhouse in Laguna Beach, California, this weekend for the Laguna Beach Music Festival presented by Laguna Beach Live! and the Philharmonic Society of Orange County. For the Opening Night concert tonight, Denk and violinist Stefan Jackiw are joined by the Choral Arts Initiative for a program of works by Ives and Brahms. Denk gives a solo recital featuring Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 111—which he performs on his 2019 album c. 1300–c. 2000 and his 2012 Nonesuch debut album, Ligeti/Beethoven—and works by Bach, Schubert, Joplin, Rzewski, and more at the Playhouse on Saturday night. And for the Festival finale on Sunday afternoon, Denk and Jackiw are joined by Isidore String Quartet for works by Mozart, Bartók, and Franck. Ticketholders to the final performance are invited to a free book reading by Denk of his new memoir, Every Good Boy Does Fine, preceding the concert.
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John Adams's 2011 piece Absolute Jest, for string quartet and orchestra, is being performed on both sides of the Atlantic this weekend: by New York Philharmonic String Principals and New World Symphony at the New World Center's Michael Tilson Thomas Performance Hall in Miami Beach tonight and Saturday and by Cuarteto Quiroga and Orquesta Nacional de España at Sala Sinfónica in Madrid tonight, Saturday, and Sunday.
Also being performed around the world this weekend are Adams's Gnarly Buttons and Short Ride in a Fast Machine by Estonia National Symphony Orchestra in Tallinn tonight (the latter piece also by ANAM Orchestra in Melbourne on Saturday), Saxophone Concerto by Latvian National Symphony Orchestra in Riga tonight, and El Niño by Konzerthausorchester Berlin on Saturday.
All of the above pieces can be heard in the 2022 forty-disc box set John Adams Collected Works.
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Laurie Anderson performs her piece Songs for Amelia Earhart—which incorporates Earhart’s radio transmissions, diaries, and news clippings—with the Filharmonie Brno and conductor Dennis Russell Davies at Helzberg Hall in Kansas City, Missouri, on Saturday.
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Rhiannon Giddens performs at Fort Mose State Park in St. Augustine, Florida, on Saturday, for the second weekend of the Discover Fort Mose Jazz and Blues series, with special guests Ramona + the Riot.
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Emmylou Harris performs at Sharon Morse Performing Arts Center in The Villages, Florida, on Sunday. The concert is presented by the Get Off The Bus Concerts series, which supports charities throughout the US and Canada.
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Brad Mehldau, whose new live solo album, Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles, was released on Nonesuch last week, is joined by his Trio mates bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard for a week-long tour of Spain, starting at Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla on Sunday.
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Mandy Patinkin brings his Being Alive winter tour to a close with a concert at Union County Performing Arts Center in Rahway, New Jersey, on Saturday. The concert is a collection of many of Patinkin’s favorite Broadway and classic American tunes, from Irving Berlin and Cole Porter to Stephen Sondheim and Harry Chapin.
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Joshua Redman 3x3—with Larry Grenadier on bass (before heading to Spain to join Mehldau's Trio) and Marcus Gilmore on drums—performs works by three of Redman’s favorite musicians, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, and Wayne Shorter, at Memorial Hall in Cincinnati tonight.
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