Clive Davis, the record executive and producer, who died on June 22 at the age of 94, was a benefactor of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, which named its recorded music division the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music.
That aspect of his vast legacy will be celebrated at Guild Hall on Saturday evening at 8 when “Next/Now: A Clive Davis Institute Showcase” brings four artists from the institute to East Hampton in a program of original performances.
Hosted by JD Samson and Jeff Peretz, professors at the institute, the program features Nora Conlon, an East End-based singer-songwriter and recent graduate of the institute whose work blends folk and alternative rock, and Sofia D’Angelo, a pop artist whose recent single, “Time,” was voted Billboard’s fan-favorite new release of the week.
Rounding out the program are Halima, a singer, songwriter, and producer whose music draws from a spectrum including jazz, R&B, Pop-punk, neo-soul, electronic music, and East African music, and Ben Lapidus, a musical comedian whose debut album, “Deeper and Dumber,” brings together, in his own words, “pop
punk earworms, hilarious metalcore anthems, absurdist pop-country bops, and so much more.”
Tickets are $40 to $65.
Guild Hall will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the musical “Grey Gardens” on Sunday at 7 p.m., bringing together Christine Ebersole, who won a slew of awards for her portrayal of both Edith and Edie Beale, and Scott Frankel, a Tony nominee for the music he composed for the play.
With Frank DiLella, an entertainment journalist, hosting, Ebersole and Frankel will share stories and musical selections from the “Grey Gardens” score. Film clips will be part of the program.
Ebersole, a two-time Tony Award-winner, has appeared in 20 Broadway and Off Broadway productions, as well as television series and specials, films, concerts, recordings, and opera. Frankel, too, has been represented on Broadway as the composer of the music for “War Paint,” which starred Ebersole and Patti LuPone.
Tickets, which range from $120 to $164, are selling fast.
The Dance Theater of Harlem production, set for Friday at 8 p.m., is sold out.
