'The Elixir of Love'
Next in the Guild Hall and Bel Canto Boot Camp Resident Artist series, which creates training and performance opportunities for emerging artists, is "The Potions of Love: Bel Canto Arias and Ensembles," a performance featuring seven vocal artists. It will take place at St. Luke's Episcopal Church's Hoie Hall in East Hampton on Saturday at 7 p.m.
The recital will include selections from Donizetti's "L'elisir d'amore," scenes and duets from Rossini and Donizetti, and Italian art and folk songs. Featured artists are Brittany Smith, a soprano from South Africa, and Juan Hernandez, a tenor from Puerto Rico.
Tickets are $55, $50 for Guild Hall members.
Screening and Panel
Richard Phillips of "Captain Phillips" film fame will visit the Southampton Arts Center Friday at 7 p.m., to take part in a panel discussion before an outdoor screening of the film.
"Captain Phillips" tells the true story of the 2009 Somali pirate hijacking of the MV Maersk Alabama, of which Mr. Phillips was in charge. The panel will include Michael Zeigler, a former operations soldier and professional golfer, and other guests, who will discuss the events as well as current veterans' issues.
Admission is $10, free for all veterans and center members. Registration is encouraged through the website. Visitors can bring their own chairs and blankets for seating.
Stand in the Center
The Watermill Center's 30th anniversary summer benefit will take place Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m. Known for its performances, installations, exhibitions, and auction, the event also features specialty cocktails and hors d'oeuvres by Colin Ambrose, the owner and chef of Estia's Little Kitchen.
On view will be exhibitions by Christopher Knowles and Robert Nava. Robert Wilson and Noah Khoshbin have organized performances by Elettra Bottazzi, Robson Catalunha, Deniz Celebic,, Yeliz Celebic, NiNi Dongnier, Laurent Le Gall, Liz Glynn, Tsubasa Kato, Taeyi Lim, Niccolo Masini, Hollie Miller, Adam Parker Smith, Vilim Poljanec, Matthew Shipp, and Xu Zhen.
Tickets start at $1,000, $750 for patrons under 40, and can be purchased through the center's website.
Postwar Cultural History
The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center's annual John H. Marburger III Lecture, featuring the critic and scholar Louis Menand, will take place online only, via Zoom, on Sunday at 5 p.m.
Mr. Menand, a Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, will discuss his most recent book, "The Free World," a cultural and intellectual history of the post-World War II years. He posits that, while America's culture gained respect during that period, in part from the influence of Europeans, it lost the moral prestige it had enjoyed because of the Vietnam War.
The program is free.
Preservation Awards
Preservation Long Island, a nonprofit committed to preserving the region's cultural heritage, has presented Preservation Awards for Organizational Excellence to two East End venues: the Southampton African American Museum, and Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio, an art space and studio on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation.
The organization has also announced the resumption of guided tours of the Sag Harbor Custom House, which will take place on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays at 1, 2, and 3 p.m. Signup is at the custom house before tour start times. The cost is $10, $8 for senior citizens, $5 for members and children 12 and under.
Rites of Springs Music Festival
The Rites of Springs Musical Festival, Sylvester Manor, and the Jazz Loft will host "Across American Roots," outdoors at the manor on Shelter Island, on Sunday.
Showcasing music by African-American composers, European composers influenced by American culture, and Native American musicians, the performances are intended to spread awareness about the values and histories of American cultures and traditions.
The concert will begin at 5 p.m., but patrons are invited to visit the manor’s garden and grounds at 4. Tickets are $65, free for ages 16 and under, and can be purchased at ritesmusic.org. Guests have been advised to take their own lawn chairs or blankets, wear suitable footwear, and bring insect repellent.
Instruments of the People
The Montauk Library will host "Instruments of the People," a free concert featuring the guitarist Francisco Roldan and the percussionist Danny Mallon, on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The concert will pair guitar and percussion through many different international styles of music, some of which include bambuco, blues, danza, and tango.
Mr. Roldan, who has performed worldwide as a soloist in chamber music, is the executive director of Musica De Camara, which promotes Latin American/Hispanic musicians. Mr. Mallon is a Grammy-nominated percussionist who has traveled as a musical ambassador for the U.S. Department of State and Embassy since 2009.
Chase Allardice in Sag
The singer-songwriter Chase Allardice is up next in the Masonic Music Series, held in the Inner Sanctum of the Sag Harbor Masonic Club. Mr. Allardice, whose songs bring listeners back to the Greenwich Village folk music scene as well as to the Seattle indie rock boom of the late '90s, will perform Friday at 7:45 p.m. Tickets are $20.
A Cabarista's Birthday
Sag Harbor's Valerie diLorenzo, who has appeared in more than two dozen musicals off Broadway and in regional theaters around the country, will celebrate her birthday and the release of her new album, "Cabarista," with a performance at LTV Studios in Wainscott on Monday at 6:30 p.m. Ms. diLorenzo, a fixture on the New York City cabaret circuit, has developed a portfolio of musical revues.
Tickets, at $20, include a signed copy of the album, cupcakes, and Champagne.
Film and Music, Sold Out
An evening of experimentation and improvisation by the filmmaker Bill Morrison and the jazz composer-guitarist Bill Frisell, set for Saturday from 9 to 11 p.m. at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs, has sold out.
