“Generosity,” the opening song of Mirah’s new album, is as beautiful
as anything the K Records singer-songwriter has ever recorded. The
sad, spent lyrics suggest Shel Silverstein’s classic The
Giving Tree. The arrangement includes stately strings, deeply
resonant piano, martial drums, quietly distorted guitar, and a chorus
of singers led by Mirah, whose voice is whisper-soft and utterly
commanding, always pitch-perfect. Mirah has a catalog over a decade
deep, from the four-track pillow talk of You Think It’s Like
This… to the orchestral song cycle about insects of Share This
Place. With Lovers and Whitney Ballen. (Vera Project, Seattle
Center, 956-8372. 7:30 pm, $14/$15, all ages.)