The Choral Society of the Hamptons will celebrate spring with “Across the Centuries,” a concert of music spanning 300 years, on March 26 at 5 p.m. at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church. 

The program includes Pergolesi’s 18th-century piece “Magnificat,” Telemann’s “Laudate Jehovam, Omnes Gentes,” a setting for Psalm 117 also composed in the 18th century; “Trois Motets,” an early 20th-century composition by Roger-Ducasse, and “Laudes Organi” (“Praise to the Organ”) by Kodály.

Led by a guest conductor, Walter Klauss, the singers will be joined by Emelia Donato, soprano, Thomas Bohlert, organist, and the strings of the South Fork Chamber Ensemble. Ms. Donato, though only 22, has performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall with the American Symphony Orchestra and at Alice Tully Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and has toured Italy as a soloist with Musica Viva.

Kodály’s piece, commissioned by the American Guild of Organists and first performed in 1966, will feature the church’s three-manual pipe organ, which is considered the finest of its kind on the East End. The organist, Mr. Bohlert, the former principal accompanist for the choral society, recently retired after 16 years as director of music at the church, where he directed the chancel, children’s, and handbell choirs. He is a founding member of the chamber music ensemble Bach & Forth.

Mr. Klauss, a frequent choral society guest director and an East Hampton resident, has appeared worldwide as guest conductor of choruses and orchestras. He is the founder and conductor emeritus of the Musica Viva concert series in New York.

Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 at the door, with youth tickets $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Preferred seating is $75. Immediately after the concert, the choral society will hold a benefit cocktail reception for the conductor and soloists at the Palm. Reception reservations, at $100 per person, are available until next Thursday at the society’s website.

The choral society’s summer concert will take place on July 8 at the Parish Hall of Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton. Brahms’s “A German Requiem” will be performed with the Greenwich Village Chamber Singers and the South Fork Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Mark Mangini, the society’s music director.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons is an auditioned chorus that performs with professional conductors, soloists, orchestra, and accompanists. It was founded in 1946 by the late Charlotte Rogers Smith. 

“The Art of Elegance,” the second program in the Madoo Conservancy’s “Madoo Talks: House and Garden” lecture series, will take place Sunday at noon in the conservancy’s winter house studio. 

Marshall Watson, an interior designer known for creating luxurious yet livable spaces for his clients for 30 years, will discuss his concept of a residence as a complete unit combining house and garden. His new book, also titled “The Art of Elegance,” includes many garden environments flowing from his interiors.

Tickets are $25, $20 for members. A reception will follow the lecture.

The next production of the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue is “An Act of the Imagination,” a mystery by Bernard Slade, which will open next Thursday and run through April 9. The suspenseful play’s protagonist is Arthur Putnam, the writer of 27 mystery novels, who has created his first romance.

The cast includes Matthew Conlon as Mr. Putnam, James M. Lotito Jr. as his friend Fred Burchitt, a police detective, and Rebecca Edana as the writer’s wife. Other performers are Jesse Pimpinella, Amanda Griemsmann, Meggie Doyle, and Cesa Pledger. 

Performances will take place Thursdays and Fridays at 7 p.m., Saturdays at 8, and Sunday afternoons at 2:30. Tickets are $30, $25 for senior citizens (except Saturdays), $15 for those under 35, and $10 for students.

The company recently named Terry Brennan as its new general manager. Ms. Brennan, who worked for the CM Performing Arts Center in Oakdale in sales, marketing, subscriptions, and box office management, also worked in theater as a producer, director, and performer. For six years, she and her husband, Ed, ran the Airport Playhouse in Bohemia.

The Shelter Island Presbyterian Church will be alive with the sound of music this weekend. Katie McNally, a fiddler, and Neil Pearlman, a pianist, will perform a concert steeped in the musical traditions of Scotland and Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia tomorrow evening from 7:30 to 9:30.  Based in Boston, the duo has been praised for their fresh approach to traditional forms.Tickets cost $25 and can be purchased through the website of Sylvester Manor Educational Farm, which is sponsoring the concert.

On Saturday at 8 p.m. the Shelter Island Friends of Music will present a concert by WindSync, a quintet featuring Garrett Hudson, flute; Emily Tsai, oboe; Julian Hernandez, clarinet; Anni Hochhalter, French horn, and Kara La­Moure, bassoon. The free performance will include music by Offenbach, Del Aguila, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Bernstein. A reception will follow the concert.

For Bonac Tonic

Bonac Tonic, a collective of artists from the South Fork, will celebrate its 12th anniversary at Ashawagh Hall in Springs this weekend with “Legacy,” an exhibition featuring the work of 10 of its members. A reception will open the show on Saturday from 6 to 9 p.m., and the work will remain on view until Sunday afternoon at 4.

Participating are Arrex Skulls, Carly Haffner, Christine Lidrbauch, Eddie Cortes, Grant Haffner, Lisa Federici, Maeve D’Arcy, Michael Weisman, Oliver Peterson, and Scott Gibbons. The exhibition will include a gift shop selling prints, stickers, and artist-made merchandise. 

Pitches at Ille Arts

Scott Pitches, who ran and served as curator for Outeast Gallery, which was next to Duryea’s Lobster Deck in Montauk for several years, is taking three artists and his curatorial vision to Ille Arts in Amagansett for a show opening this weekend.

Hiroyuki Hamada, Chuck Manion, and Mason Saltarrelli will be featured. Mr. Hamada is a sculptor who has also recently been painting in black and white. Mr. Manion and Mr. Saltarrelli were studio assistants to Julian Schnabel. Each has a unique approach to painting. The show will be on view from Saturday to April 3, with a reception Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

Nature Unprimed

The pop-up gallery for ArtUnprimed in the Addo shop in Sag Harbor is now showing “Terra,” a group exhibition inspired by nature. The artists include Francisco Aliotta, Scott Bluedorn, Jessica Dalene, Michele Dragonetti, Bruce Lieberman, Charles Ly, Mica Marder, Jane Martin, Dalton Portella, and Traute Worschech. The exhibition is on view weekends through March 19.

New at White Room

“Art That Speaks to You,” a group show featuring work by Mark E. Zimmerman and Kat O’Neill, will open tomorrow at the White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton and continue through April 3. A reception will take place Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m.

Ms. O’Neill is an artist and writer whose artwork incorporates photographs, words, graphics, and mixed media to transform and intensify images. Mr. Zimmerman’s abstract paintings, which combine swirls of color and crisscrossing black lines, develop from the interaction of intellect and spontaneity.

Work by Michele Dragonetti, Claudia Ward, Sally Breen, Melissa Hin, June Kaplan, Ellyn Ticket, Bob Tucker, Gabriel Vigorelli, and Ann Brandeis will also be on view.

Leibers in Stony Brook

“Brilliant Minds: Judith Leiber’s Handbags and the Art of Gerson Leiber” is on view at the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook through June 4. The exhibition focuses on the creative productivity and shared aesthetics of the artists, whose Leiber Collection in Springs features their work and chronicles their careers.

Ms. Leiber’s unique handbags have been carried by first ladies from Mamie Eisenhower to Laura Bush, the opera singer Beverly Sills, and countless celebrities. An Abstract Expressionist, Mr. Leiber has a large body of oil paintings, etchings, prints, and sculpture to his credit. He also designed seven gardens, including a sculpture garden, on the couple’s property.

The exhibition shows 130 of Ms. Leiber’s handbags and 50 works of art by Mr. Leiber.

Verdi’s “La Traviata,” the next offering from The Met: Live in HD, will be shown at Guild Hall on Saturday at 1 p.m. Sonya Yoncheva will sing the role of Violetta, the tragic courtesan, opposite Michael Fabiano as her lover, Alfredo, and Thomas Hampton as his father, Germont. Tickets are $22, $20 for members, and $15 for students.

Tickets are still available for the Guild Hall’s Academy of the Arts dinner, which will take place on Monday from 6 to 10 p.m. at the Rainbow Room in Manhattan. Susan Stroman, a director, choreographer, and performer, Edwina von Gal, a landscape designer, Philip Schultz, a poet, and Cheryl and Michael Minikes, who are philanthropists, will he honored. Dinner tickets start at $500 and can be purchased at Guild Hall’s website.

The Southampton Arts Center, in partnership with Telluride Mountainfilm, will show “Sonita,” a documentary by Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami, an Iranian filmmaker, tomorrow evening at 7. An 18-year-old Afghan refugee living in a shelter in Iran with dreams of becoming a rapper, Sonita is in many ways a typical teenage girl, but, in the tradition of forced marriage endemic to Afghan culture, her mother wants to sell her as a bride to a much older man. 

The film won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award in the World Cinema Documentary competition at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Tickets are $10.

In an unusual twist on musical accompaniment for silent films, William Hooker, a drummer, composer, and poet, will accompany “The Penalty,” a 1920 movie, with a solo jazz drum performance on Saturday at 7 p.m. Mr. Hooker’s 40 years as a soloist and as a leader of ensembles has established him as an important jazz performer and composer. 

“The Penalty” stars Lon Chaney as a legless man whose criminal mind has made him a master of the Barbary Coast underworld. Tickets are $15.

The Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor will be a busy venue this week, with four days of films, music, and dancing, starting today at 6 p.m. with a screening of “The Winter Guest,” a drama directed by Alan Rickman about a widow determined to leave Scotland who gets an unexpected visit from her aging mother. Starring Phyllida Law and Emma Thompson, it was shown in 1997 at the Hamptons International Film Festival. Tickets are $10.

Joe Lauro, a filmmaker, musician, and archivist, will return to Bay Street tomorrow night at 8 with a new film in his Legends of Rock series, a restored version of rarely seen footage of the T.A.M.I. Show from 1964, which featured performances by Chuck Berry, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Marvin Gaye, the Rolling Stones, and others. Tickets are $15.

Organizacion Latino Americana of Eastern Long Island will hold a Pachanga for Peace and Unity at Bay Street starting at 7 p.m. on Saturday. Loosely translated as “dance party,” the pachanga will feature music by Mambo Loco, Certain Moves, Willy Fuentes, Mila Tina, and others. In addition, 28 members of the Latino community will perform an R&B classic in celebration of diversity and unity. Tickets are $20.

The weekend will conclude Sunday afternoon at 3 with “Five Nation Ensemble,” a program that will include live calligraphy by a Chinese master accompanied by harp and cello, a narration by Lutz Rath of a Dada poem by Kurt Schwitters, a duet for violin and cello of a composition by the German composer Hanns Eisler, and performances of Saint-Saens’s Fantasie for harp and violin and Glinka’s Romance for harp, violin, and cello. Tickets are $25.

The Perlman Music Program will present a solo violin recital by Francesca Anderegg, an alumna of the program, on Saturday afternoon at 5 at the Clark Arts Center on Shelter Island. Ms. Anderegg, who will be accompanied on piano by John Root, will perform classic and contemporary works by Mozart, Hannah Lash, Clint Needham, Manuel de Falla, and Maurice Ravel. Tickets are $25, free for students.

A free students’ performance of classical masterworks will take place on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the same location. Reservations are not required. 

Hector Martignon, a two-time Grammy-nominated composer, producer, orchestrator, and pianist, will return to the Friday Night Jazz series at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill with his Foreign Affair quartet tomorrow at 6 p.m. The evening of Afro-Cuban and South American jazz will be performed in a candlelight cabaret setting with table service of drinks and light refreshments available for purchase from the Golden Pear Cafe.

Colombian-born and based in New York, Mr. Martignon, in addition to performing at jazz clubs in New York, festivals in Europe and Colombia, and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave festival, has worked extensively in film, theater, and television and played with such jazz icons as Ray Barretto, Gato Barbieri, Don Byron, Mongo Santamaria, and Tito Puente.

Tickets are $25, $10 for members. The museum has suggested advance reservations.