Live Music, Indoors and Out
Music for Montauk, the long-running program of free concerts that was revived in the spring by Lilah Gosman and Milos Repicky, its new artistic directors, will hold its first-ever summer series of concerts, indoors and out, from Tuesday through Aug. 15.
The series will launch Tuesday with several pop-up concerts in the hamlet’s outdoor spaces and public venues, featuring surprise performances by its guest artists.
On Wednesday the action will move to Sole East, where a tango concert will take place at 8 p.m. Pedro Giraudo, a featured bassist on multiple Grammy Award-winning recordings, will be accompanied by Rodolfo Zanetti on piano and Emilio Teubal on bandoneon, a type of concertina essential to most tango ensembles. Tickets are $20, and proceeds will benefit Music for Montauk.
The “Carnival of the Animals” concert, the biggest of the series, will start next Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at Third House in Montauk County Park. The program will feature Saint-Saens’s suite of colorful musical caricatures, written for a chamber ensemble of two pianos, strings, winds, and percussion. Admission to the family-friendly program is free, and guests can take their own wine and picnics.
Salon Espanol, a benefit program of Spanish-inspired music performed on guitar, string quartet, and vocals, will be held at a private residence from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 14. The music will be accompanied by tapas prepared by a local chef and wines selected by a sommelier. Tickets to the benefit, which are $150 and limited to 50, can be purchased at musicformontauk.org.
A free concert of American music will conclude the series at Third House at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday. The program will include Antonin Dvorak’s “American Quartet” for strings as well as Charles Ives’s Violin Sonata No. 4, Aaron Copland’s “Old American Songs,” and Lou Harrison’s “Estampie” for string quartet. Wine and picnics can provide nonmusical accompaniment.