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NPR: "Musical Wizard" T Bone Burnett Guest DJs on "All Songs Considered"

Adding yet another hyphenated credit to his name, T Bone Burnett plays guest DJ on the latest episode of NPR's All Songs Considered. Host Bob Boilen introduces T Bone as "a musical wizard of sorts" for all his many diverse and successful musical forays, before the two discuss a range of topics, including Burnett's producing methods, a few things he learned from the late Roy Orbison, and the differences between analog and digital recording.

They also plays cuts off of T Bone's own record collection, including songs by trombonist Wilbur DeParis, Hank Williams, Charlie Parker, and Bob Dylan, as well as a track off the Burnett-produced albums Raising Sand by Robert Plant / Alison Krauss, with whom he is currently on tour; A Boot and a Shoe by Sam Phillips (whom Boilen calls "my favorite of the people you work with"); and his own new Nonesuch release, Tooth of Crime.

To listen online or download the podcast version, visit npr.org/music.

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Nonesuch Events This Weekend

Here is our weekly list of just some of the many events going on across the globe this weekend featuring Nonesuch artists:

John Adams's opera A Flowering Tree received its Midwest premiere in Chicago's Millennium Park on Wednesday, with the composer conducting. The Chicago Opera Theater continues its production on Saturday with Adams conducting again. Tickets: chicagooperatheater.org.

On Sunday, at The Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington, DC, The Choral Arts Society of Washington, under the direction of Norman Scribner, will perform Adams's oratorio El Niño, which received its world premiere at the Châtelet in Paris in 2000, directed by Peter Sellars with soloists Dawn Upshaw, Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson, Willard White, who recorded the piece for its Nonesuch release. Tickets: kennedy-center.org.

Also on Sunday, the San Fransisco Symphony Youth Orchestra, led by Benjamin Schwartz, will perform Adams's 1995 piece Lollapalooza at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, along with Stravinsky's Le Chant du rossignol and Dvořák's "New World" Symphony (sfsymphony.org); and the American Philharmonic Sonoma County, led by Gabriel Sakakeeny, will perform Short Ride in a Fast Machine at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa, California (wellsfargocenterarts.org).

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Laurie Anderson will bring her latest performance piece, Homeland, to Spain this weekend: at Auditorio de Garcia in Santiago de Compostela in the country's northwest tonight and Auditorio de Murcia, in Murcia in the southeast on Sunday night.

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After a couple of days in New York that included stops at Late Night with Conan O'Brien and WNYC's Soundcheck and a sold-out show at Terminal 5, The Black Keys are moving on to Philadelphia for a sold-out set at the Electric Factory tonight, then to Boston for a show at the Orpheum Theatre Saturday night. Its the last gig on this leg of the US tour before they head to Europe. Tickets: boston-theater.com.

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The European leg of the Raising Sands tour continues, with T Bone Burnett joining Robert Plant and Alison Krauss on stage in Stockholm, Sweden, tonight at the Stockholm Hovet (globearenas.se), and Oslo, Norway, on Sunday at the Oslo Spektrum (oslospektrum.no).

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Richard Goode joins the Orchestra Philharmonique de Radio France, with Peter Oundjian conducting, tonight at Salle Pleyel in Paris for a program of works by Jacques Hétu, Mozart, and Brahms. Tickets: sallepleyel.fr.

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Kronos Quartet is in Europe this month, performing tonight at the Internationales Congress Center as part of the Dresden International Music Festival in Dresden, Germany. The Quartet performs Terry Riley's 2002 piece Sun Rings, which was commissioned for the group by the NASA Art Program among many others. Tickets: musikfestspiel.com.

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Nicholas Payton began a four-night residency at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley in Seattle, Washington, as the special guest of vibes master Bobby Hutcherson. For this presentation of KPLU 88.5 NPR and the Pacific Jazz Institute, Payton and Hutcherson are joined by Joe Gilman on piano, Glen Richman on bass, and Eddie Marshall on drums. Remaining performances this weekend include two sets each tonight and tomorrow night, plus a 7:30 set on Sunday. Tickets: jazzalley.com.

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Punch Brothers are back in full swing with the next leg of their US tour. They'll be at the the Satellite Ballroom in Charlottesville, Virginia, tonight (satelliteballroom.com); the Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis, Maryland, for two all-ages sets on Saturday, at 1 PM and 4 PM (tickets.ramsheadonstage.com); and the Mountain Stage Little Theatre in Charleston, West Virginia, on Sunday (mountainstage.org).

You can check out a recording of the band in concert on Live from Folk Alley now on folkalley.com. There's both video and streaming audio, as well as downloadable audio for members of the site, from a performance at The Kent Stage in Kent, Ohio, on April 2.

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Laura Veirs's solo tour continues with three stops this weekend: tonight at The 9:30 Listening Room in Louisville, Kentucky (the930.org); Saturday at The Basement in Nashville (thebasementnashville.com); and Sunday at The Earl in Atlanta (badearl.com); all with opener Liam Finn.

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Wilco two sold-out shows at The Pageant in St. Louis, Missouri, with opener Retribution Gospel Choir, featuring Alan Sparhawk of Low (thepageant.com). It's their last scheduled tour date before they ramp things up again for two shows in Alaska at the end of July with The Whipsaws.

Star-Telegram: T Bone Burnett's New Album "A Tour-de-Force of Style and Substance"

Yesterday marked the release of T Bone Burnett's Nonesuch debut, Tooth of Crime, featuring songs based on work he began more than a decade ago for Sam Shepard's play of the same name, about the pitfalls of a fame-obsessed culture. The Dallas News calls it "a fittingly eclectic musical opus" from the multi-talented musician, and the nearby Fort Worth Star-Telegram, T Bone's hometown paper, gives the album four stars and sees in it a decidedly Texan influence, "pulling from the bewitching tangle of influences that indelibly mark the songs crafted by Texas artists---a little rock, a little country, a little psychedelia and a dose of anguish, just for good measure."

Writes the Star-Telegram's Preston Jones:

Throughout his solo recording career and his lauded work as a producer, Burnett has excelled at creating and sustaining moods---it's his trademark, one springing to florid life on Crime. The twisted, tense soundscapes grab hold from the unsettling opener, "Anything I Say Can and Will Be Used Against You," extending into the funereal "Dope Island," a sinister track aided greatly by frequent Burnett collaborator Sam Phillips.

Jones concludes that the new album "explodes like a fever dream but lingers on the margins of your mind. It's a tour-de-force of style and substance, reinforcing Burnett's standing as one of music's most essential talents." To read the review, visit star-telegram.com.

Further east, the Boston Globe's Jonathan Perry finds in Tooth of Crime "an atmospheric, enigmatic collection that examines fame and its fallout---isolation, disillusionment." He calls it "sumptuously spooky" and points as well to "Dope Island" as a "pungent highlight ... sung with smoke-and-velvet-voiced languor" by Phillips. Visit boston.com for more.

USA Today's Edna Gundersen sees T Bone's meditation on fame as having evolved from its origins in Shepard's play "to survey today's identity crises and cultural chaos, filtered through Burnett’s wicked humor." She also points to "Anything I Say" as a highlight and concludes: "Tooth serves up brain food, not pop candy." Read more at blogs.usatoday.com.

BlogCritics' Richard Marcus also comments on T Bone's take on celebrity but says listeners won't find any overly literal assault on that national obsession. "Burnett is far more subtle than that," writes Marcus. "The music and the lyrics of each song combine to create almost abstract impressions expressing a mood or emotion that illustrates an aspect of the theme."

Tooth of Crime, says the reviewer, "is not just an example of Burnett going places that other popular musicians would fear to tread, it's also an indication of just how much he invests of himself into a project." Even independent of the play that inspired it, "the CD stands as a work of art in its own right." He concludes:

There are not many composers of any genre who are as capable of creating music that rewards its listeners to the extent that T Bone Burnett does. Not only is he an innovative musician he is also an intelligent lyricist. On Tooth of Crime he demonstrates just how gifted he is in both areas.

To read the article, visit blogcritics.org.

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NY Times: T Bone Burnett's New Album Stems from "Inspired" Roots

Tooth of Crime, T Bone Burnett's first album on Nonesuch and only his second solo record in over 15 years, is due out tomorrow. The music stems from T Bone's 1997 collaboration with Sam Shepard, when the playwright asked the songwriter to contribute to a New York production of his 1972 play Tooth of Crime. It was a coming together that New York Times music critic Jon Pareles calls "inspired."

Pareles says that the years since the songs' original conception have allowed for a "marinating and reworking" that has "only deepened their black-humor charm." He cites the "ominous haze" created by T Bone's production as "a shadowy extension of the sound" he created for last year's Robert Plant / Alison Krauss collaboration, Raising Sand. To read the review, visit nytimes.com.

Currently on tour in Europe with Plant and Krauss, T Bone spoke with BBC Radio 4's Today show this past Saturday morning about the new record and his eventful career, going back to his unforgettable tour with Bob Dylan in the 1970s. "So much of what I've done since I learned on that tour," credits T Bone. "Bob was generous to include us all in his world at the time.

You can listen to the segment on the show's site, bbc.co.uk/radio4/today, or by clicking here to open the RealAudio file directly.

During the Raising Sand tour's stop in Chattanooga, Tennessee, last month, T Bone spoke with his hometown paper, the Fort-Worth Star-Telegram, about the initial inspiration behind the new album and about what continues to inspire him. He tells the paper's pop music critic, Preston Jones:

I'm still on this quest---this sonic quest to find the grail---to find the thing, to make the record that does for me or does for other people what hearing Jimmy Reed did to me when I was 15. Barnett Newman said, "Time washes over the tip of the pyramid." I want to make things that sit right on the very tip of the pyramid.

To read the full interview, visit star-telegram.com.

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Click here to pre-order T Bone's Tooth of Crime CD for $16 and download the album MP3s, at no extra charge, starting tomorrow.

Nonesuch Events This Weekend

Here is our weekly list of just some of the many events going on across the globe this weekend featuring Nonesuch artists:

John Adams's Short Ride in a Fast Machine receives two very different performances this weekend: first, tonight, at the Frauenthal Center, Muskegan, Michigan, by the West Shore Symphony Orchestra, led by Scott Speck. On Saturday night, the piece will be one of many Adams works included in the Hamburg Ballet's performance of choreographer John Neumeier's Parzifal: Episodes and Echo (pictured at right) at the Staatsoper in Hamburg. Also included are Tromba Lontana, Christian Zeal and Activity, The Wound-Dresser, El Dorado, and The Dharma at Big Sur. Tickets: hamburgballet.de.

The Black Gondola, the composer's orchestration of Liszt's La Lugubre Gondola, will receive two performances this weekend by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Trevor Pinnock, first at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam tonight, and then at de Vereeniging in Nijmegen, Netherlands, tomorrow. Tickets: concertgebouw.nl.

Also receiving two performances is Road Movies, which violinist Midori and pianist Charles Abramovic will play Saturday at Zeche Zollverein, in Essen, Germany, and on Sunday at Zehntscheuer in Rottenburg.
Also on Sunday, Adams's Chamber Symphony will be performed by the Tokyo Sinfonietta, led by Yasuaki Itakura, at Cité de la musique in Paris.

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Laurie Anderson brings her Homeland tour to the sparkling KKL Luzern Concert Hall in Switzerland tonight (tickets: kkl-luzern.ch) and then to Modena, Italy, for a performance at the Teatro Communale on Sunday.

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The European leg of the Raising Sand tour continues with T Bone Burnett joining Robert Plant and Alison Krauss in a sold-out concert at Philipshalle in Dusseldorf, Germany, Saturday night, and the Forest National Arena in Brussels on Sunday. Tonight, BBC Two will air the group's performance on Later ... with Jools Holland. You can watch a video preview of their set, the song "Killing the Blues," at bbc.co.uk/later. Also on Later tonight: Emmylou Harris, with a song from her forthcoming Nonesuch release, All I Intended to Be.

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Kronos Quartet has begun its tour of Europe, heading to Leon, Spain, tonight, for a performance that includes John Adams's Fellow Traveler, written for Kronos in celebration of Peter Sellars's 50th birthday. The Quartet will then bring the piece to Bucharest, Romania, on Sunday for a performance at Sala Radio that also includes Steve Reich's Triple Quartet, which the group premiered in 1999 and recorded for Nonesuch in 2001.

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The Blues Alley in Washington, DC, hosts Nicholas Payton tonight for the second night in a row; there will be an 8 PM and a 10 PM set. Tickets: bluesalley.com.

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Dawn Upshaw celebrates Mother's Day at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall on Sunday with Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in a program including the New York premiere of She Was Here, composer Osvaldo Golijov's arrangement of Schubert Lieder. (Tickets: carnegiehall.org.) Dawn spoke on WNYC's Soundcheck with host John Schaefer earlier this week on being dubbed "The Composers Muse," as she will be honored at a Meet the Composer benefit later this month.

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The next stop on Laura Veirs's solo tour, with opener Liam Finn, is Denver, Colorado, tonight for a show at the Walnut Room presented by Radio 1190. (Tickets: thewalnutroom.com.) On Sunday, they'll head to Omaha, Nebraska, for a set at the Slowdown's Front Room. (Tickets: theslowdown.com.)

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Wilco heads to the Southwest, with openers Retribution Gospel Choir (featuring Alan Sparhawk of Low), for a concert tonight at the University of New Mexico's Pope Joy Hall in Albuquerque (tickets: unmtickets.com), before heading to Austin, Texas, for two sold-out nights at Stubbs BBQ, beginning Sunday.

Independent (UK): Four Stars to T Bone Burnett's Abundantly Pleasurable New Album

"Despite the competing claims" from today's hottest producers, says The Independent's Andy Gill, "T Bone Burnett may be the most interesting producer working in popular music at the moment." And after a successful string of blockbuster producing gigs, from the O Brother Where Art Thou? and Walk the Line soundtracks to last year's Raising Sand pairing of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, with whom he is currently touring, T Bone is now set to release Tooth of Crime, his Nonesuch debut, this Tuesday. It's the result of a different sort of collaborative effort, with playwright Sam Shepard, who asked T Bone to write songs for the New York production of his play The Tooth of Crime (Second Dance) a dozen years back, from which the album's tracks evolved.

The album, writes Gill, features "ghostly echoes of tambourine and twang, and the subdued lowing of mournful horns" in arrangements possessing "great depth and diverse character." Although the reviewer wishes for more sung vocals from T Bone, he praises Tooth of Crime as a modern-day "update of the jazz 'n' poetry format," through which lens the album's "abundant pleasures become apparent."

To read the review, visit independent.co.uk.

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Click here to pre-order T Bone's Tooth of Crime CD for $16 and download the album MP3s, at no extra charge, on release day, May 13.

Emmylou Harris, T Bone Burnett to Perform Tonight on BBC Two's "Later ... with Jools Holland"

UK audiences can tune in to BBC Two tonight at 10 PM GMT to catch Emmylou Harris on Later ... with Jools Holland. She'll perform a song from her forthcoming Nonesuch release, All I Intended to Be, due out June 10. Also on the program will be T Bone Burnett, fronting the band behind Robert Plant and Alison Krauss before they all head to Manchester to play the Apollo tomorrow night.

If you miss tonight's broadcast, you can catch an encore presentation Later on Friday night at 11:35 PM.

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Click here to pre-order T Bone's Tooth of Crime CD for $16 and download the album MP3s, at no extra charge, on release day, May 13.

Billboard: T Bone Burnett's "Tooth of Crime" a Welcome Addition to His Works

T Bone Burnett and the rest of the Robert Plant / Alison Krauss Raising Sands tour have made their way from Birmingham, Alabama, where they performed at the end of last month, to Birmingham, England, where they take the stage tonight at the National Indoor Arena for the start of the European stretch of the tour.

T Bone's album Tooth of Crime, with stemmed from a collaboration with playwright Sam Shepard, is set for release next Tuesday, May 13, and Gary Graff, writing for Reuters/Billboard, says it will be a welcome addition to the multi-talented, mutli-hyphenate's body of work.

T Bone spoke with Graff about the many projects he has in development and admits that, of all the facets of his career, "The best job in show business is a free-standing artist." That's a conclusion it's taken him some time to realize for himself:

[F]or a long time I haven't known what I wanted to say, at least on my own records. I didn't really feel like I had to be a record artist. I had to learn to accept who I am and let it be that ... I have things I want to say now.

To read the full interview, visit reuters.com.

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Click here to pre-order T Bone's Tooth of Crime CD for $16 and download the album MP3s, at no extra charge, on release day, May 13.

Nonesuch Events This Weekend

Below is information on just some of the many events going on this weekend across the globe featuring Nonesuch artists. Enjoy!

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Violinist Leila Josefowicz will join the Saint Louis Symphony, led by conductor Marin Alsop, for three performances of John Adams's The Dharma at Big Sur this weekend at Powell Hall in St. Louis. Also tonight, the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra led by Raymond Leppard will perform Adams's Violin Concerto at the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao, Spain, featuring violinist Chlöe Hanslip, and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI led by Trevor Pinnock will perform the composer's 1990 orchestration of Liszt's The Black Gondola, in Turin, Italy.

Saturday night, the San Francisco Ballet presents the Mark Morris Dance Group's Joyride, featuring Adams's Son of Chamber Symphony, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, as part of the continuing New Works Festival.

Adams's Short Ride in a Fast Machine gets three playings this weekend: Saturday night at the Saenger Theater in Mobile, Alabama, by Scott Speck and the Mobile Symphony, and Bloomington High School in Bloomington, Indiana, by Jose Valencia and the Musical Arts Youth Orchestra; and Sunday night at Royal Albert Hall, London, by Mark Gooding and the Harrow Young Musicians Philharmonic.

More information: boosey.com.

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Kronos Quartet plays the last of three performances at the Mondavi Center at the University of California, Davis, tonight: John Cage's Thirty Pieces for String Quartet with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Tickets: mondaviarts.org.

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Laurie Anderson will bring Homeland to the Moscow International Performing Arts Center in Russia on Saturday. On Sunday night, Laurie will join the weekend-long Symposium on Sound, a gathering of scientists, performers, and artists, at Leiden University in the Netherlands, for a discussion of the event's theme of mutual influence between art and science, especially as it relates to sound. Info: veenfabriek.nl.

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T Bone Burnett continues his tour with Robert Plant and Alison Krauss at New Orleans' famed Jazz & Heritage Festival, aka Jazz Fest. The three are scheduled to take the Acura Stage this afternoon at 3:30 PM. Next, they'll head to Birmingham, Alabama, where they'll play the BJCC Arena Saturday night. Tickets: nojazzfest.com (4/25); bjcc.org (4/26).

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Bill Frisell closes out his two week residency at New York's Village Vanguard with performances all weekend. Playing with Bill are Chris Cheek on sax, Ron Miles on trumpet, Tony Scherr on bass, and Rudy Royston on drums. Tickets: villagevanguard.com.

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Satyagraha, Philip Glass's 1980 opera centered around Mahatma Gandhi's early years in South Africa, continues tonight at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The performance is sold out. More information: metoperafamily.org.

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Richard Goode will perform a free concert in New York City as part of the annual Free for All at Town Hall concert series. See the post in today's Nonesuch Journal for more information.

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Emmylou Harris takes the stage at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in downtown Nashville tonight for Premiere Evening, an annual fund-raising event to benefit the Center's educational and cultural programming. Tickets: tpac.org.

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k.d. lang's continues the Australian leg of her Watershed tour at the Entertainment Center in Adelaide Saturday night. Tickets: theaec.net.

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Brad Mehldau is in Quebec, Canada, tonight for a solo show at the Palais Montcalm. He returns to the States on Saturday for a performance with the trio with whom he recorded the new album Live at the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, and a Sunday night show at the Annenberg Center's Zellerbach Theater in Philadelphia. Tickets: palaismontcalm.ca (4/25); hop.dartmouth.edu (4/26); pennpresents.org (4/27).

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Youssou N'Dour will perform a special benefit concert tonight at New York's intimate venue Joe's Pub as part of a fund-raising effort for the Youssou N'Dour Foundation and his worldwide advocacy efforts. The acoustic set will be modeled on the smaller sets he leads at his club in Dakar. Tickets: joespub.com.

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Randy Newman will play a solo date tonight at the Riley Center at Mississippi State University's Meridian Campus. Tickets: msurileycenter.com.

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Nicholas Payton stays close to home for New Orleans' Jazz Fest. He and his quintet will take the stage in the WWOZ Jazz Tent at 4:05 PM on Sunday. Among the other performers at this year's festival are Stevie Wonder and Al Green, as well as Robert Plant and Alison Krauss with T Bone Burnett (see above). Tickets: nojazzfest.com.

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Steve Reich's Eight Lines will be performed by Ensemble Intercontemporain led by Ludovic Morlot tonight at Cité de la musique, Salle des concerts, in Paris.

Reich's Desert Music, will presented at the University of California, Berkeley, Saturday, as Drumming will be performed by percussionist Colin Currie at the Concert Hall in Perth, Scotland. Currie earned four stars in the Herald (UK) for his performance there earlier this week of Reich's Music for Pieces of Wood that "mesmerised." Also Saturday, the Smith Quartet brings the Triple Quartet to the Jacqueline du Pre Music Building in Oxford, England.

On Sunday, Reich's Cello Counterpoint will be performed at the Purcell Room in London by Endymion and his Vermont Counterpoint can be heard at Ford Hall at Ithaca College, with Melissa Wertheimer on flute.

More information: boosey.com

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The national tour of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, based on the 2005 Broadway production helmed by John Doyle, began its run at Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre early this week. Performances continue there through May 4. Tickets: sweeneytoddtour.com

David Byrne, Black Keys, T Bone Burnett to Perform at Austin City Limits Festival

David Byrne, The Black Keys, and T Bone Burnett will be among the headliners at this year's Austin City Limits Festival, the event's organizers announced. The Festival, which runs September 26-28, in Austin's Zilker Park, will feature 130 bands, including Robert Plant and Alison Krauss (with whom Burnett is touring), Beck, Gnarls Barkley, Conor Oberst, Iron & Wine, Neko Case, Vampire Weekend, Gogol Bordello, and many others. For the complete list and further details, visit aclfestival.com.

T Bone Burnett to Tour with Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

T Bone Burnett will head out on tour this spring with Robert Plant and Alison Krauss; he produced the duo's highly acclaimed album Raising Sand from last year. As of now, only a few dates have been scheduled, starting with an April 20 show in Louisville, Kentucky, but more dates are coming. For more information, visit billboard.com.

T Bone Burnett to Perform on CMT Plant/Krauss Special

CMT, the country music television channel, reports that T Bone Burnett will appear as a special guest on the station's Crossroads: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, which will debut on February 11 at 8 PM. The show was recorded in October and features songs off the 2007 album Raising Sand, the Burnett-produced collaboration between Plant and Krauss. The duo also performs a song from Krauss's Union Station repertoire and two Led Zeppelin classics. For more information, visit cmt.com.

Nonesuch Records will release T Bone's own long-awaited album this spring. Check back with the Nonesuch Journal for more details as they become available.

Music Box: T Bone Burnett, Sam Phillips Stand-Outs on New Plant/Krauss CD

In the latest issue of The Music Box, writer John Metzger reviews the new Robert Plant / Alison Krauss collaboration, Raising Sand. Metzger has kind words for the two singers but saves his highest praise for the album's producer, T Bone Burnett. He calls the project "Burnett's baby" and expects that fans of T Bone's work on Sam Phillips’s A Boot and a Shoe, in particular, will appreciate Burnett's efforts on the new record.

"He did a magnificent job finding the right songs and sculpting the perfect arrangements for Plant and Krauss to perform," Metzger writes. Included among the tracks is Sam Philips's "Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us," which, he says, "is delivered as a moody hallucination that comes in the wake of crushing heartache."

Sam's own version of the song will appear on her follow-up to A Boot and a Shoe called Don't Do Anything, due out early next year on Nonesuch. Burnett's own record is also slated for release sometime next spring.

To read the full Music Box review of Raising Sand, visit musicbox-online.com.