An intimate chamber music recital featuring three members of the New York Philharmonic will kick off a busy week at Guild Hall on Saturday evening at 8. The program promises to travel through three unique sound worlds, each highlighting the expressive potential of the string trio.
The program will begin with Franz Schubert’s “String Trio in B-flat Major” from 1816, which will be followed by Jean Françaix’s 1933 “String Trio.” After an intermission, the concert will conclude with “Serenade for String Trio in C Major, Op. 10” (1902) by Ernst von Dohnányi. The musicians are Quan Ge, violin; Cong Wu, viola, and Ru-Pei Yeh, cello.
Tickets are $75 to $165, $67.50 to $148.50 for members.
As part of East Hampton Design Days, which highlights designers, architects, and others who have helped define the region’s aesthetic legacy, Guild Hall will host a lecture and discussion program on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The day will begin with an hour devoted to book signings by the participating interior designers and landscape architects. Other signings will happen over the course of the day.
“Living With Flowers,” set for noon to 1, will feature a conversation between the interior designer David Netto and Aerin Lauder, the founder and creative director of Aerin, a luxury lifestyle brand that launched in 2012. The talk will focus on her newest book, “Living With Flowers.”
A panel discussion at 1:15 will be devoted to “Designing Iconic Interiors and Architecture.” The speakers are Brian Sawyer, a landscape architect, and David Kleinberg and Victoria Hagan, interior designers. Jacqueline Terrebonne, editor in chief of Galerie, will moderate.
“From Concept to Creation: Designing Legendary Gardens,” set for 2:15, will feature three landscape architects: Ed Hollander, Fernando Wong, and Perry Guillot, and be moderated by Clinton Smith, editor in chief of Cottages and Gardens.
Tickets are $150, $135 for members.
On Sunday at 7 p.m., a change of pace will bring Elias Weiss Friedman, better known as the Dogist, to Guild Hall, with stories from his new book, “This Dog Will Change Your Life.” As part of the program, the audience will see Mr. Friedman photographing dogs live onstage, and members of the Dogist community will share their own stories of the transformative power of “man’s best friend.” Dogs from the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons will be available for adoption.
Ali Wentworth, an actress, comedian, writer, and producer, will moderate the evening and discuss her own experience with dogs with Mr. Friedman. Tickets are $58, $55 for members, and the tariff includes a copy of “This Dog Will Change Your Life.” The evening will conclude with a book signing.
Hamptons Institute, a forum for ideas founded in 2010 at Guild Hall, will tackle “SNL — 50 Years of American Satire” on Monday evening at 7. Susan Morrison, the author of “Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live” and the articles editor of The New Yorker, will talk with guests from the show about the longest-running comedy program on television.
A book signing will follow. Tickets are $45, $40.50 for members.
