The 16th season of the acclaimed concert series “American Songbook” includes bluegrass instrumentalist and singer Sarah Jarosz with the duo The Milk Carton Kids; “The Songs of Henry Krieger” with Alice Ripley, Darius de Haas and others; folktronica singer-songwriter Beth Orton; and songs from the 1920s from theater artist Taylor Mac.

Christopher Plummer talks to Paula Zahn about his remarkable performance as the fabled but faded star John Barrymore in his twilight days, which you can see in the GREAT PERFORMANCES presentation of “Barrymore.”

Highlights from the latest arts and culture news: “Beyond the Spectrum: Abstraction in African American Art, 1950 – 1975” at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery; company Rousseve/Reality performing “Stardust” at Peak Performances at Montclair State University; and Benjamin Britten’s epic “Billy Budd” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

This Curator’s Choice takes a look at two works by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, one of America’s finest sculptors. His “Victory” is depicted as a guiding force leading the Civil War hero William Tecumseh Sherman. The sculptor’s Abraham Lincoln portrait was informed in part by the subject’s own speeches and writings.