On March 18, the Chicago Symphony will host a Celebration of Andrew Patner.... The twentieth Other Minds festival unfolds in San Francisco this weekend: featured are Don Byron, Frode Haltli, Tigran Mansurian, Miya Masaoka, Michael Nyman, Pauline Oliveros, David Tanenbaum, Maja S.K. Ratkje, Errollyn Wallen, and Charles Amirkhanian.... The JACK Quartet plays a new Augusta Read Thomas piece at NYC's Miller Theatre tonight. Next week they'll be at the National Gallery of Art's American Music Festival in DC, and toward the end of the month they will reprise Czernowin's HIDDEN at MaerzMuzik in Berlin.... Boston's Sound Icon devotes a program to Salvatore Sciarrino this Saturday, with a Pierluigi Billone portrait following on April 1.... TENET will conclude their epic survey of Gesualdo's Responsoria in the period March 12-15 (concerts in New York, Florida, and Georgia).... Gesualdo will also appear on a March 11 Italian Academy program by the Mivos Quartet, whose major novelty will be a new work by Kate Soper.... Talea plays Enno Poppe's Speicher at EMPAC, in Troy NY, on March 13.... The Dallas Opera's Institute for Women Conductors is receiving applications through April 15.... The pianist Philip Thomas will make a short North American tour later this month, stopping in Ithaca, Buffalo, and Toronto. He offers a program of Skempton, Wolff, and Finnissy.... Spectrum in NYC will host a Finnissy Fest from March 22 to March 25, with four world premières on the schedule.... In New York, Justin Davidson writes excellently on Thomas Adès's Totentanz and Andrew Norman's Play.... On March 24, Will Robin hosts a Symphomania festival on Q2.
