The summer season might be over, but nobody told Guild Hall, which has a Paul Simon documentary, a solo piano concert, and self-guided garden tours lined up this weekend.
The Academy Icons series, which highlights Guild Hall’s Academy of the Arts members and their work, continues with “Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time,” tomorrow at 7 p.m. The 1993 “American Masters” film, which won a Peabody Award, was directed by Susan Steinberg and produced by Susan Lacy, the creator of the PBS series.
With appearances by Art Garfunkel, Miriam Makeba, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels, and Joseph Shabalala, the film follows the evolution of Mr. Simon’s 30-year career from its origins in New York City to his 1992 tour of South Africa.
Joining Ms. Lacy for a post-screening conversation will be Mirra Bank, an award-winning director and producer whose films have played at festivals worldwide.
Tickets are $25, $22.50 for members.
“The Bell Études,” a new work for solo piano by Nico Muhly and commissioned by Guild Hall, will be performed by Conor Hanick on Saturday at 7 p.m. Conceived during the pandemic by Mr. Muhly and Mr. Hanick, the program includes a new set of études from Mr. Muhly’s “Bell Études” collection, as well as selected works by Gabriella Smith, Samuel Adams, and Julius Eastman.
Mr. Muhly is an American contemporary classical music composer who has written orchestral music works for the stage, chamber music, and sacred music, including two operas commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera.
Director of solo piano at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, Calif., Mr. Hanick has premiered over 200 pieces and collaborated with composers ranging from Pierre Boulez, Kaija Saariaho, and Steve Reich, to the leading composers of his generation.
Tickets range from $60 to $80, $54 to $72 for members.
This year’s Garden as Art fund-raiser will begin on Sunday morning at 10 with a talk in Guild Hall’s theater by Charlie Marder, the owner of Marders in Bridgehampton. The talk will be followed by self-guided tours of four gardens, from noon to 4.
Featured are a Georgica property cultivated by Harmonia Inc. that merges a modern house with an organic and textural landscape; a transformed Wainscott property, originally housing a potato barn, with gardens designed by Hollander Design Landscape Architects; a Main Street garden featuring an immense 90-year-old crimson weeping Japanese maple, a perennial garden, and a pond with lilies and water hyacinths; and the grounds of the historic Woodhouse Playhouse in East Hampton, featuring a pool, a fountain, and a variety of mature specimen trees. The office gardens of Landscape Details in East Hampton will also be on view.
Tickets are $200, $150 for Guild Hall members.
