A Salon and a Fling
The spring Salon Series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will launch on Friday evening at 6 with a piano concert by Alexandria Le.
Ms. Le will pair works by American and international composers, among them Francis Poulenc's "Improvisation no. 15: Hommage a Edith Piaf" with George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," and Claude Debussy's "Claire de Lune" with William Grant Still's "Summerland."
Tickets are $35, $25 for members, $20 for students and children.
The museum will crank up the music Saturday evening from 7:30 to 11 for Spring Fling, its annual dance party, featuring a D.J. from Marc Bauman Events, hors d'oeuvres from Elegant Affairs, a silent auction of high-end goods and services, and an open bar.
Tickets are $300. Proceeds will help support the museum's year-round educational programs for children and adults.
Around a Fire
Emily Johnson and IV Castellanos will be at Ma's House and BIPOC Art Studio in Southampton on Saturday at 7 p.m. for the next program in the "Gather" series of conversations featuring Black and Indigenous artists, scholars, and leaders.
Ms. Johnson and Mr. Castellanos will build a Kinstillatory Fire, around which participants will be invited to think, dream, and activate community futures through forms of dance, song, feasting, and witnessing.
A member of the Yup'ik Nation, Ms. Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. Mr. Castellanos is a queer trans Indigenous abstract performance artist and sculptor.
Tickets are $50, $45 for Guild Hall members.
Beautiful Music
"Belleza (Beauty)," a free concert featuring Anna Tonna, a mezzo-soprano, and Francisco Roldan, a classical guitarist, will take place at the Montauk Library on Sunday from 3:30 to 5 p.m. The program will feature composers from the Caribbean, South America, and Central America, as well as pieces from the United States and Europe.
Ms. Tonna has appeared at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and the Palacio Nacional de Ajuda in Lisbon, while Mr. Roldan has performed in Russia, Argentina, Spain, Colombia, Greece, Portugal, and throughout the United States.
Comic Opera
The Gilbert & Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island will touch down at the East Hampton Library on Saturday at 2 p.m. with a production of "Princess Ida." The 1884 comic opera is about a woman who strives to create a better world for herself and for all women by founding a women's university.
" 'Princess Ida' is unlike any other Gilbert & Sullivan opera," says the show's director, Gayden Wren, a longtime member of the company and the author of a book about Gilbert & Sullivan. "It’s Shakespearean in its scope, and its humor . . . is in the service of a story of unique emotional power."
Raising the Dead
The Grateful Dead's concert at Cornell University's Barton Hall on May 8, 1977, was of such importance to the band's legacy that an entire book on the event was written, and then published in conjunction with the event's 40th anniversary.
Dead & Company will acknowledge that legacy with an anniversary performance at the same venue, but East End "Deadheads" can catch a live stream of the show at Rowdy Hall in East Hampton on Monday. The doors will open at 6:30 p.m.; the show will start at 7:30.
Tickets, which include a Springs Brewery Lazy Lightning IPA, are $32.50 and can be purchased at bit.ly/3AuRUab. An a la carte menu will be available for ticketholders during the show. The restaurant will be closed to the public for the event, which will benefit Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy.
Ravel, Prokofiev, Liszt
The Southampton Cultural Center's Rising Stars piano series will resume on Saturday at 6 p.m. with a concert by Ling Yi, a Chinese pianist who won first prize in the 2021 Young Concert Artists International Auditions.
Ms. Yi made her New York City recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall and debuted in Washington, D.C., at Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater. Upcoming recitals are set for Milan, Bologna, Ravenna, and Berlin.
Her program includes excerpts from Ravel's "Le Tombeau de Couperin," Liszt's "Concert Paragraph" on Verdi's "Rigoletto," and Prokofiev's 7th Sonata.
Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door, free for students under 21.
Classical Concert
For 50 years, the Omega Ensemble's mission has been to support young classical music artists in New York City, Long Island, and New England. On Sunday at 3 p.m., three of its current artists, Jeremiah Blacklow on violin, Sebastian Stoger on cello, and Yannick Rafalimanana on piano, will perform a free concert at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton.
The program includes compositions by Brahms, Mendelssohn, Paganini, Mozart, and Ravel.
The Danish Play
Joan Baum, a writer, critic, and host of WSHU's "Baum on Books," will discuss Shakespeare's "Hamlet" at the East Hampton Library on Friday at 6 p.m. The library says that Ms. Baum will ponder "What is it about the central figure that makes him and the play attractive to and adaptable in so many forms, in different eras, countries, and cultures? And so relevant now in our divisive age?"
A question and answer session will follow the talk, which will also be available via Zoom for those who register through the library's website.
