Music for Kahlo
In conjunction with the Parrish Art Museum's current exhibition "Kahlo: An Expanded Body," the pianist Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner will perform a program consisting primarily of music by Mexican composers that pays homage to the life, loves, and art of Frida Kahlo.
The concert, Friday at 6 p.m., will begin with a protest dance of Mexican revolutionaries during their War of Independence against Spain, which evolved into the popular folk melody the "Mexican Hat Dance." Works by Carlos Chavez, a prominent composer and friend of Kahlo and Diego Rivera, will follow.
Kahlo's travels to New York, Paris, and Spain will be referenced by Leonard Bernstein's "Mambo," a piece by Claude Debussy inspired by Granada, Spain, and Sergei Prokofiev's "Scherzo" from Sonata No. 2. The program will also include works by Jesus Gonzalez Rubio, Manuel Ponce, and Consuelo Velazquez.
Tickets are $35, $25 for members, $20 for students, and $10 for children.
The museum has also announced the appointment of Marc Giosi as deputy director of development. He brings to the post decades of experience in fund-raising with arts organizations throughout the East Coast.
'Medea' from the Met in HD
A screening of a previous performance from The Met: Live in HD, of Luigi Cherubini's 1797 opera "Medea," will take place at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 12:55 p.m. A Metropolitan Opera premiere, the rarely performed work stars Sondra Radvanovsky as the mythic sorceress who will stop at nothing in her quest for vengeance. The role was made famous by Maria Callas.
David McVicar is both the director and the set designer, and Carlo Rizzi is at the podium. Other featured performers are the tenor Matthew Polenzani as Medea’s Argonaut husband, Giasone; Janai Brugger, soprano, as her rival for his love, Glauce; Michele Pertusi, bass, as her father, Creonte, the King of Corinth, and the mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova as Medea’s confidante, Neris.
Tickets are $35.
Romantic Cabaret
The Suffolk Theater in Riverhead will host "A Broadway Valentine," a cabaret show featuring five Broadway vocalists, on Saturday at 8 p.m. The program will feature love songs from "Hamilton," "Mary Poppins," "Cats," "Les Misérables," "The Sound of Music," "The Lion King," and more.
The performers include Gavin Lee ("Mary Poppins"), Lisa Howard ("It Shoulda Been You"), Keri Rene Fuller ("Cats"), Jelani Remy ("The Lion King"), and Emily Bautista ("Miss Saigon").
Tickets are $63 to $83; doors will open at 7.
Becoming a Gardener
Assuming nothing crazy happens and the groundhog is right, we have only six weeks left of winter, which means it's time to think about your gardens.
To that end, on Sunday at 2 p.m. the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons will welcome Catie Marron at the Bridgehampton Community House for a talk based on her latest book, "Becoming a Gardener: What Reading and Digging Taught Me About Living," which "weaves her personal story of becoming an exuberant gardener with meditations on the deep impact gardening has on our lives," according to the alliance.
The talk is $10, free for alliance members.
