In partnership with Hamptons JazzFest, Guild Hall will host a performance by Arturo O’Farrill and the Latin Jazz Ensemble on Saturday at 7 p.m.
Mr. O’Farrill, a pianist, composer, and educator, began his professional career with the Carla Bley Band and continued as a solo performer with such artists as Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Bowie, Wynton Marsalis, and Harry Belafonte.
He founded the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance in 2007 as a nonprofit dedicated to the performance and preservation of Afro-Latin music, and over the years has traveled regularly to Cuba as an informal cultural ambassador, bringing Cuban musicians to the United States and taking American musicians to the island.
Mr. O’Farrill has performed with orchestras and bands, including his own Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra and Arturo O’Farrill Sextet, as well as other orchestras and intimate ensembles in the United States, Europe, Russia, Australia, and South America. He has received commissions from Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Apollo Theater, Symphony Space, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the Philadelphia Music Project.
Tickets are $65 to $135, $58.50 to $121.50 for members.
Guild Hall’s Academy Icons series, which highlights members of the venue’s Academy of the Arts, will conclude its three-part tribute to Susan Lacy, the director and producer known for creating the PBS series “American Masters,” on Sunday at 7 p.m. with a screening of “Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart.”
Directed by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and executive-produced by Ms. Lacy, the film traces the evolution of Reed’s career, which began in 1965 with the creation of the Velvet Underground and continued with a solo career marked by innovation and gritty honesty.
The film, which premiered on PBS in 1998, includes interviews with Reed, David Bowie, David Byrne, John Cale, Philip Glass, and Patti Smith, among many other musical luminaries. Caryn James of The New York Times called it “a brisk, intelligently shaped tour through Mr. Reed’s hugely influential career.”
The screening will be followed by a talk with Ms. Lacy, Mr. Greenfield-Sanders, and Laurie Anderson, Reed’s wife. Tickets are $25, $22.50 for members.
The Moth, a nonprofit dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling, will partner for the first time with Guild Hall to bring “Big Night: The Moth in East Hampton” here Friday at 7:30 p.m. Some fans will be disappointed, however, as the show has sold out.
