Renfro and Saint-Saens
The Larsen Salon Series at LongHouse Reserve will feature a conversation between Charles Renfro, a partner in the architecture firm of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Jonah Bokaer, a Tunisian-American choreographer and visual artist, on Saturday at 4 p.m.
Mr. Renfro has led much of his firm’s academic portfolio, with projects at Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley; Brown University, and the recently completed Columbia Business School.
Tickets are $35, $25 for members.
The Young Concert Artist Performance Series will bring Oliver Neubauer, a violinist, and Hanzhi Wang, an accordionist, to the East Hampton venue on Sunday afternoon at 5. Each artist will perform separately and then come together for Saint-Saens’s “Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso.”
Tickets are $30, $20 for members.
Music Fest Benefit
“The Symphony of Generosity,” a benefit for the Hamptons Festival of Music, will be performed on Sunday at Hoie Hall at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, East Hampton.
The event will begin at 5 p.m. with an hour of wine and hors d’oeuvres served during a silent auction. At 6, Eric Silberger, a violinist; Elizabeth Anderson, a cellist, and Brandt Fredriksen, a pianist, will perform Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No. 1.
Among the items on auction are cocktails with Victoria Bond, a renowned composer and conductor; a private concert featuring Kenn Wagner, the festival’s principal second violin, and a dinner with Michael Palmer, the festival’s artistic director, and Logan Souther, its associate conductor.
Tickets are $50.
Jazz at The Church
Over four decades, Michael Blake, a saxophonist, has created a large body of recorded work in the field of contemporary jazz. As part of Hamptons JazzFest, he will be at The Church in Sag Harbor with his band Chroma Nova 5 next Thursday at 5:30 p.m.
“Dance of the Mystic Bliss,” the debut album of Chroma Nova 5, was named album of the month by The Guardian in June 2023. In addition to Mr. Blake, the band members are Sky Steele, violin; Gili Lopes, bass; Guilherme Monteiro, guitar, and Rogerio Boccato, percussion.
After a social hour, the concert will begin at 6:30. Tickets are $30, $25 for members, $15 for those 18 and under.
Rock and Jazz
Nancy Atlas and her band will perform at the Sag Harbor Masonic Club tomorrow at 8 p.m. Brett King, Johnny Blood, Denny McDermott, Joe Delia, and Greg McMullen will back Ms. Atlas in a rare small-room performance by the hard-rock band. Tickets are $50 and will sell quickly.
In partnership with Hamptons JazzFest, the Masons will host the Charles Owens Quartet on Saturday at 7 p.m. Mr. Owens is a tenor saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and recording artist who has been performing and composing for over 25 years. Tickets are $30 and help support local charities.
French Salon Music
In collaboration with the Basilica Parish of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Southampton, the Southampton Cultural Center will present “Roses at Twilight: Paris in the Belle Epoque” on Tuesday evening at 6:30. The free concert, to be held at the church, 168 Hill Street, will include compositions by Chopin, Faure, Dell’Acqua, Viardot, Massenet, Bachelet, Puccini, and de Falla/Kreisler.
The classical program will be bracketed at the cultural center by two Sticks and Stones Comedy shows. Jordan Rock, who has appeared in the Netflix film “The After Party” and Judd Apatow’s Netflix series “Love” will perform two sets on Saturday, at 7 and 9 p.m. Matt Ritter, who left corporate law for a career in comedy and has been featured on “The Today Show,” NPR, and in The New York Times, will take the stage on Wednesday at 8 p.m.
Tickets for all three shows are $35. $50, and $70.
Jazz Alfresco
The Parrish Art Museum’s Summer Jazz on the Terrace series, in partnership with Jazz at Lincoln Center and Hamptons JazzFest, will feature the Ekep Nkwelle Quartet tomorrow at 6 p.m.
Ms. Nkwelle, a jazz vocalist, has performed at Radio City Music Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and at the Library of Congress. Last year she received Juilliard’s Career Advancement Grant, for which she was nominated by Wynton Marsalis.
Tickets are $45, $40 for senior citizens, $35 for members, $25 for students, and $15 for those 17 and under. There is no museum seating; outdoor chairs and blankets have been recommended. Outside food and beverages are prohibited.
Comedy and Cabaret
In conjunction with its current show, “Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein -- The Musical,” Bay Street Theater will celebrate its creator tomorrow, starting at 4 p.m. with a free screening of Mr. Brooks’s 1987 film “Spaceballs,” a parody of such science-fiction movies as “Star Wars.”
A video tribute will pay homage to Mr. Brooks throughout the afternoon and evening in the lobby, where guests can indulge in Mel Brooks-themed drinks.
The theater’s Music Monday series will bring Ari Axelrod, an award-winning actor and vocalist, to Sag Harbor on Monday at 8 p.m. in “A Place for Us: A Celebration of Jewish Broadway.” The performance features contributions to musical theater by Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Schwartz, and Carole King, among others.
Tickets are $65 to $75.
Grit and Resilience
The Sag Harbor Cinema will host a screening of “Dindigul Diaries,” a documentary by Annette Danto of Springs next Thursday at 1 p.m.
Begun in 2001, the film follows four women from the southeastern Indian state of Tamil Nadu over a period of 23 years. Each grew up with limited education, and all left school at a young age to help their families financially.
“The documentary reveals their concerns about children, economic stability, and life in general,” the filmmaker has said.
Summerfest and a Chat
Summerfest, the annual benefit of the Southampton Arts Center, will be held Saturday from 6 to 10:30 p.m. Featuring cocktails, dinner, and dancing, the event honors Jamee and Peter Gregory. Performances by Adrienne Warren, a Tony Award winner, and Jessica Vosk, a Grammy nominee, will round out the evening. Tickets start at $1,000.
Next Thursday at 6 p.m., the arts center will also have a free conversation between Guy Trebay, a style reporter and critic for The New York Times, and Steven Stolman, a designer and writer. They will discuss Mr. Trebay’s new book “Do Something: Coming of Age Amid the Glitter and Doom of ’70s New York.” A book signing, cocktails, and hors d’oeuvres will follow.
Bow Wow Meow
The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons will hold its Bow Wow Meow Ball on Saturday starting at 6:30 p.m., with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres in a garden tent, followed by dinner in the William P. Raynor Training Center. ARF is at 124 Daniel’s Hole Road, East Hampton.
The event will honor ARF’s founders, Barbara Hotchkiss Posener, Sony Schotland, and Dorothy Wahl, as well as the Chantecaille family. Tickets start at $1,250.
Soul for a Cause
Marcus King, a Grammy-nominated singer and guitarist, will continue his residency with the Soho Sessions with a performance on Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett. The performance will benefit God’s Love We Deliver.
Mr. King’s debut album, “El Dorado,” won critical praise from NPR, American Songwriter, and Rolling Stone, which says his latest album, “Mood Swings,” brings out “the soulful side of his sound, while leaning less on guitar and more on piano, strings, and R&B vocal stylings.”
Tickets are $200.
Cinema and Music
LEYA, a Brooklyn-based musical duo, and Aron Sanchez-Baranda, a filmmaker, will collaborate for the first time for two live cinema performances at the Folly Tree Arboretum in Springs tomorrow and Saturday at 8 p.m.
Images of anemones, snails, and sea cucumbers will dance to the music of Marilu Donovan, a harpist, and Adam Markiewicz, a violinist, in what the arboretum, at 741 Springs-Fireplace Road, calls a “rapturous ecological spectacle.”
Tickets are $23.18.
