Music will fill the Southampton Cultural Center this weekend, starting Saturday evening at 6 when the Liliane Questel Recital Series will present a performance by Kristina Moditch.
An alumna of Pianofest in the Hamptons, Ms. Moditch has performed at Carnegie’s Weill Hall, the Moscow Conservatory Great Hall, and, in New York City, at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music and at Birdland. Her concert highlights include solo recitals at major festivals, among them the Breakers at the Newport Music Festival in Rhode Island, and Musikfest in Pennsylvania, America’s largest free music festival.
Ms. Moditch will perform works by Bach, Hamelin, Debussy, Scriabin, Schumann, and Liszt. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door.
On Sunday afternoon at 2, Carol Smith, a soprano, and Jonathan Howe, a pianist, will perform a benefit recital for the preservation of the historic area of Freetown of East Hampton and one of its almost 200-year-old buildings.
In 1799, with New York State’s Emancipation Act, Lion Gardiner created Freetown for himself and his associates who had formerly owned enslaved people. An unincorporated hamlet in the Town of East Hampton, Freetown was settled in the 19th century by free people of African and Native American descent, along with people of European descent.
The recital will feature classical music of the Romantic period (1800-1900) by the composers Richard Strauss, Johannes Brahms, and the enslaved Blind Tom Wiggins. This music was created during Freetown’s historical beginnings, from 1799 through the late 1800s.
Tickets are $15. Donations can be made in advance at scc-art.org, or at the door on the day of the performance. Donations of $3,000 or more will receive a unique gift.
