The programming at The Church this weekend will touch down on different points of the musical/performative spectrum, starting tomorrow at 6 p.m. when Hamptons Jazz Fest will bring Mary Edwards to the Sag Harbor venue.
A composer, pianist, and environmental sound artist, Ms. Edwards explores themes of temporality, impermanence, nostalgia, and the natural world. Tomorrow she will fashion immersive compositional soundscapes with cinematic audio, creating “an ode rather than an elegy” to the transforming Arctic landscape, says The Church.
Ms. Edwards has an extended, multi-stylistic discography of solo and ensemble projects ranging from pop-jazz to ambient. She holds an interdisciplinary Master of Fine Arts in sound and architecture, and has been awarded residencies and commissions at the ACA Soundscape Field Station at Canaveral National Seashore; Headlands Center for the Arts; the Arctic Circle, and The William T. Davis Nature Conservancy.
The pianist will be joined by her quartet. Tickets are $30, $25 for members.
The Reflections in Music series returns to The Church with a performance of “Winterreise,” Franz Schubert’s song cycle, by Matthew Rose on Saturday at 7 p.m. The series aims to expand classical music’s reach and make it new for traditional audiences.
“Winterreise” is a cycle of 24 songs for male voice and piano composed in 1827 by Schubert, with words by the German poet Wilhelm Muller. The poetry is written in the voice of a young man who, upon seeing his beloved marry another, sets out on foot in the deepest winter to escape memories of her.
A bass, Mr. Rose’s many international performances have included more than 100 with the Metropolitan Opera. He has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra; the Philadelphia Orchestra; the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic, among others.
He will be accompanied on piano by Brian Zeger, who has performed with many of the world’s greatest singers, including Marilyn Horne, Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham, Anna Netrebko, Joyce DiDonato, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, and René Pape.
Tickets are $30.
Mila Tina, a Chilean-American interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersections of rhythm, movement, and storytelling, will present her short film “Mujer Luna” at The Church on Sunday at noon. Translating to “moon woman,” the film is a nod to the moon as a symbol of feminine identity.
Ms. Tina is well known throughout the East End for her movement and rhythm workshops, and as a musician and drummer whose performances also draw from martial arts and technology. In “Mujer Luna” she expands on the inspiration at the root of all of her work — legendary women and archetypes of femininity. The screening will be followed by a question-and-answer session.
Tickets are $10, free for members who R.S.V.P.
The connections between visual art and the written word will be explored in a two-session literary workshop led by Star Black, a poet, photographer, and artist, that will take place on Tuesday and next Thursday from 10 until noon on the main floor of The Church.
The sessions are part of an ongoing series focused on the idea of ekphrasis, a Greek term meaning “the use of detailed description of a work of visual art as a literary device.”
Workshop participants will respond with creative texts to the venue’s current exhibitions, “Some of Tom’s Typewriters: From the Collection of Tom Hanks,” and “Some Odes: Sam Messer With Paul Auster, Eleanor Gaver, Denis Johnson, and Sharon Olds.”
The workshop will be limited to eight participants. The only required materials are a notebook and a pen or pencil. The fee for the two sessions is $30.
