Madoo Is Merry
Merry Madoo, the holiday market of the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack, happens on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., featuring gifts from the venue’s new gift shop as well as offerings from a variety of vendors, among them Aerin, Gretchen Comly Design, Marilee’s Farm Stand, Meg Cohen, Hoare & Hoare Antiques, Figaro Apothecary, and Maison D’Attilio.
The conservancy’s own pomanders and paperwhites will be on offer, as will caroling, mulled cider, vin chaud, and roasted chestnuts.
While the event is free, there are two special programs. A sustainable wreath-making workshop will take place at 11, with the wreaths to be taken home. The fee is $125, $112.50 for members. At 3 p.m., Janet Mavec, a jeweler, writer, and gardener, will be on hand for a reception and to sign copies of her new book, “Bird Haven Farm: The Story of an Original American Garden.”
Tickets, which include a signed copy of the book, are $80, $72 for members.
Tragedy From the Met
Umberto Giordano’s tragic 1896 opera “Andrea Chénier,” the next offering from The Met: Live in HD, will be shown at Guild Hall on Saturday at 1 p.m. Set in Paris during the French Revolution, it follows three people caught up in a dramatic moment in history.
Piotr Beczala, a tenor, plays Chénier, a poet who is in love with Maddalena, sung by the soprano Sonya Yoncheva, an aristocrat who has aroused the passion of Carlo Gérard (Igor Golovatenko, a baritone), her family’s servant. When Gérard becomes an integral player in the revolution, he uses his power to condemn his rival Chénier to death. After Maddalena implores Gérard to spare Chénier, he attempts to save him, but to no avail.
Staged by Nicolas Joël, the production is conducted by Daniele Rustioni. Tickets are $35, $32 for members.
Holiday Cabaret
Center Stage will bring an evening of song and storytelling to the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday at 7 p.m.
The concert will feature winter classics performed by Mary Sabo, Douglas Sabo, Elizabeth Wyld, Michael Lynn Schepps, Joey Giovingo, Tommy Rosanti, Mary Ellen Roche, and Dan Becker, under the direction of Michael Disher and Ms. Sabo, with musical direction by Amanda Borsack Jones.
Tickets are $35, $30 for members.
Rocking the Temple
Next up in the music series at Sag Harbor’s Masonic Temple is Spitnkitn, self-described as “the least productive, really good band you’ve never heard of,” tomorrow at 8 p.m.
East End music fans, however, have indeed heard of the band, which has headlined the Battle of the Fantasy Girl Bands at the Stephen Talkhouse and more recently played to a full house at the temple for the Fall of Freedom event.
Spitnkitn features Lindsay Morris on vocals and guitar, Barbara Dayton on drums, and Susan Nieland on bass. While they play original material, they also perform covers from the Stooges, PJ Harvey, Hole, and Heartless Bastards.
Tickets, at $20, are available on the temple’s website.
Kirtan Chanting
Mandala Yoga in Amagansett will host an evening of Kirtan chanting with Tim and Sita Kadash tomorrow at 7 at Scoville Hall. “Their expert classical music and warm father-daughter energy promise to create a joyful evening of chanting and connection,” says a release.
Kirtans typically involve musicians playing instruments such as the harmonium or tablas while chanting a mantra, with the audience participating in a call-and-response.
Admission is by donation.
Chamber Concert
The Montauk Chamber Orchestra, a recently formed group of freelance classical musicians based in New York City, will perform a free Christmas concert on Sunday at 3 p.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Church in Montauk.
The concert has been arranged by Peter Sachon, a professional cellist and sailboat charter captain who has played numerous solo recitals at St. Therese, including all the Bach cello suites as well as music by Bloch, Prokofiev, Jake Heggie, and Stephen Schwartz.
Sunday’s program will include Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #3, “Winter” from Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons,” and Christmas music, including carol singalongs.
Sylvester Manor
Shelter Island’s Sylvester Manor is the next subject in the lecture series of the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons. Set for Sunday afternoon at 2 at the Bridgehampton Community House, it will feature Stephen Searl, the manor’s executive director for the past eight years, who will discuss “From Provisioning Plantation to Nonprofit: The Transformation of Sylvester Manor.”
The home for millenniums to Indigenous Manhansett People, the 236-acre site is the most intact remnant of a former slaveholding plantation north of Virginia. It was home to 11 generations of Sylvester descendants from 1652 to 2014, when it was gifted to the nonprofit Sylvester Manor Educational Farm. Today it includes the 1737 manor house, a restored 19th-century windmill, an Afro-Indigenous burial ground, a working farm, and educational and cultural programs.
The cost of the lecture is $10, free for members.
