Hamilton Back at Bay Street
Stephen Hamilton, a director, producer, actor, and arts administrator, has been hired as director of external affairs by the Friends of Bay Street, the group formed to build a new home for the Sag Harbor's Bay Street Theater. One of the theater's founders along with Emma Walton Hamilton and Sybil Christopher, Mr. Hamilton served for 17 years as its executive director.
He will act as a liaison between members of Friends of Bay Street, government officials, and patrons, as well as other organizations with potential interests in the new venture.
In addition to acting, directing, and producing, Mr. Hamilton has taught acting at the Ensemble Studio Theatre in Manhattan, at Bay Street, and as a faculty member of Southampton Arts, a Stony Brook University umbrella for graduate programs in creative writing, children’s literature, podcasting, and film. He recently served as acting executive director of the Sag Harbor Cinema.
Tracy Mitchell, the theater’s executive director, said, “It truly is an honor to get to work with Steve, and we are thrilled to have him aboard. It really completes the circle of his and Emma’s original dream to create a permanent home for Bay Street.”
Chamber Concert
Music for Montauk will present the online premiere of a special film project featuring “Quartet for the End of Time,” a chamber music composition by Olivier Messiaen, tomorrow at 8 p.m. on its website.
The composer wrote the piece while interned in a German prison camp during World War II. It was first performed on Jan. 15, 1941, by four musicians, including M. Messiaen, for an audience of prisoners, German officers, and prison guards.
Recorded and filmed live by Emily Anderson in Montauk at the Edward F. Albee Foundation Barn and Camp Hero, the performance features Annaliesa Place on violin, Ani Kalayjian on cello, Benjamin Fingland on clarinet, and Milos Repicky on piano.
Virtual Jazz
The Arts Center at Duck Creek is presenting a series of jazz concerts, live-streamed from the Bar Bayeux in Brooklyn, on Wednesday evenings at 7:30 during January.
A collaboration with Keyed Up, a nonprofit jazz education and performance initiative, the series features a performance on Jan. 20 by Immanuel Wilkins, a saxophonist, composer, and bandleader whose first album is on top-10 lists across the country.
Another sax master, George Garzone, will be featured on Jan. 27. The free concerts can be accessed at Facebook.
