Set for release Aug. 30, “Amelia” is Laurie Anderson’s first new album since 2018’s Grammy-winning “Landfall,” It features 22 tracks about the renowned female aviator Amelia Earhart’s tragic last flight.
Ms. Anderson will be at Guild Hall tomorrow evening at 7 for what the venue is calling a “listening party” that will preview the entire album, which features collaboration with the Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, with contributions from Anohni, Rob Moose, Marc Ribot, and others.
After the album plays, Ms. Anderson will share insights into the creative process behind it, her inspirations, and how she wove together historical narrative and musical innovation.
Tickets are $35, $31.50 for members.
Michelle, a band whose music features layered harmonies, analog synthesizers, and vibrant percussion, will perform at Guild Hall on Saturday at 8 p.m. Known for its blend of jazz and R&B, the band came together in 2018, when it released the EP “Heatwave.”
The band members, Charlie Kilgore, Sofia D’Angelo, Julian Kaufman, Layla Ku, Emma Lee, and Jamee Lockard, are friends and native New Yorkers. Their second album, “After Dinner We Talk Dreams,” was called by Clare Martin of Paste Magazine “a sonically cohesive listen” whose 14 tracks “blossom with chill bangers that make the most of Michelle’s honeyed vocals.”
Tickets range from $45 to $75, $40.50 to $67.50 for members.
Academy Icons, a new program that spotlights members of Guild Hall’s Academy of the Arts, will launch Sunday at 7 p.m. with Susan Lacy, the acclaimed director and producer who created the PBS series “American Masters.”
The evening will begin with “Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note,” the 1998 film directed, written, and co-produced for “American Masters” by Ms. Lacy. In his New York Times review, Walter Goodman noted that the “altogether affectionate ‘American Masters’ tribute brings out the qualities that endeared [Bernstein] to generations of collaborators, students and audiences.”
The film includes interviews with Bernstein’s family, friends, colleagues, peers, and critics, as well as his own written and recorded words. The screening will be followed by a talk with Jamie Bernstein, the composer’s daughter; Fred Berner, the producer of the Bernstein biopic “Maestro,” and Ms. Lacy.
Tickets are $25, $22.50 for members.
Climate change and the environment are the subjects, and the artists April Gornik and Diane Tuft will be the guests at Guild Hall on Monday at 5 p.m. for a conversation on the relationship between those subjects and their work.
The program coincides with the recent release of “Entropy,” Ms. Tuft’s fourth monograph, which visually documents in dramatic photographs the environmental transformation of Utah’s Great Salt Lake caused by climate change and water diversion.
As for Ms. Gornik, her landscape paintings reflect her belief, stated on her website, “in safeguarding life other than ours, that of plants and animals, and that we should be sharing, not overwhelming, the earth.”
Ms. Tuft will sign copies of her book after the talk, which will be moderated by Andy Battaglia, executive editor of ARTnews and Art in America. Tickets are $25, $22.50 for members. The book can be bought after the program for $80.
