Dreaming With Melissa
Melissa Errico, a Tony Award-nominated Broadway actress, singer, and writer, will return to the Southampton Arts Center with “I Can Dream, Can’t I?”, a new show featuring songs of “love, longing, and summertime,” on Sunday at 7 p.m.
Accompanied by Tedd Firth, a renowned jazz pianist and frequent collaborator, the show introduces songs from their upcoming album of the same name. Though many of the songs are familiar, even classics, her selections are those of conversation and reflection. Featured composers include Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Joni Mitchell, David Shire, Dave Frishberg, and more.
Ms. Errico’s theater roles have included “My Fair Lady” (as Eliza Doolittle), “High Society,” and “Anna Karenina” on Broadway, and Dot/Marie in “Sunday in the Park With George” at the Kennedy Center, for which she was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award. A recognized Sondheim interpreter, her 2018 album “Sondheim Sublime” was called by The Wall Street Journal “the best all-Sondheim album ever recorded.”
She has appeared in concert at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, London’s Palladium, and Paris’s Grand Rex. “I Can Dream, Can’t I?” will be her 11th solo album.
Tickets are $75, $125 for V.I.P. seating.
Classical to Klezmer
The Shelter Island Friends of Music will continue its 2025 season with a performance by David Krakauer, a Grammy-nominated clarinetist, and Kathleen Tagg, a South African pianist, on Sunday at 6 p.m. at the Shelter Island Presbyterian Church. The duo’s music spans classical, klezmer, jazz, and world music.
Mr. Krakauer is known for his distinctive sound and innovations in both classical and klezmer. The Wall Street Journal called him “such an overwhelmingly expressive clarinetist who moves so seamlessly between different genres that you’d almost think that there’s no appreciable difference between jazz, klezmer, and formal classical music.”
A pianist, composer, and producer, Ms. Tagg has performed on four continents in venues ranging from Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to immersive interdisciplinary stages. She has developed a unique language at the piano using loops, samples, and extended techniques to transform it into an orchestra of sound, according to a release.
A post-concert reception with the artists will follow the performance.
