Arts

Leonard Bernstein meets the Choral Society of the Hamptons!

Sounds unlikely? You would have changed your mind if you had been at one of the society’s two concerts at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church on Saturday.

Mark Mangini conducted the redoubtable choir in the difficult but exciting “Chichester Psalms,” two numbers from Bernstein’s Mass, which opened the Kennedy Center Opera House, and songs from the forgotten musical “Peter Pan” and the well-remembered “West Side Story” and “Candide.” Bible to Broadway indeed — and all under a church roof.

John Leguizamo, an Emmy Award-winning actor and comedian who has appeared in more than 50 films, will take the stage at Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater at 8 tonight with “Ghetto Klown,” a one-man play directed by Fisher Stevens. Mr. Leguizamo will draw upon characters from his adolescent memories of Queens, his early acting career, and Hollywood film sets. Balcony tickets are $45, $43 for members; orchestra tickets are $65 and $63, and prime orchestra seats are $100, $95.

The Perlman Music Program’s summer music school on Shelter Island is presenting two free concerts this weekend in the Geffenberg Performance Tent.

Tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. the program’s teachers will present their annual concert. Artists will include Yi-Fang Huang, Jeffrey Irvine, Ron Leonard, Merry Peckham, Itzhak Perlman himself, Patrick Romano, John Root, and Pauline Yang. Saturday’s concert, also at 7:30, will feature the school’s students.

More information and a full summer calendar may be found at perlmanmusicprogram.org.

The Parrish Art Museum’s Sounds of Summer series will resume tomorrow at 6 p.m. with a performance by Mambo Loco. Formed in 2003, Mambo Loco blends classic Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican music with old-school Latin and Latin Jazz.

Maya Lin at the Parrish

    The Parrish Art Museum’s Platform series, which consists of artist-driven projects that approach exhibition and programming in unconventional ways, will present seven works by Maya Lin from tomorrow through Oct. 13.

    Since 1981, when Ms. Lin won a public design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., at the age of 21, she has established herself as one of the most important public artists of our time.

The Capitol dome that greets visitors emerging from Union Station is a jarring welcome to Washington, D.C. Constructed to be a reassuring monument to probity and permanence, it now stands for the nation’s crippling divisions, personified by the voting members of the United States Congress. Seeing it in the flesh, unmediated by pixels or screens, it is a palpable and potent talisman of dysfunction.

“Bernstein! From Bible to Broadway,” this year’s Choral Society of the Hamptons summer concert, will be presented in two performances on Saturday, at 5 and 7:30 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.

The program includes Leonard Bernstein’s most significant sacred work, “Chichester Psalms,” performed in Hebrew, along with selections from his “Mass,” arrangements from “West Side Story,” a song from the seldom-performed score of “Peter Pan,” and choruses from the operetta “Candide.”

Crossroads Music in Amagansett will present a concert by the Complete Unknowns, a band that celebrates the music of Bob Dylan, on Wednesday at the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall in East Hampton. Tickets are $20, or $18 for members, with prime orchestra seats at $40, $38 for members. The show will begin with a guitar performance by Matty Liot at 7:30 p.m. On Saturday, a preview mini-concert will be held at Innersleeve Records in Amagansett at 6 p.m.

If it is not quite yet the highest of the high season, no one told Guild Hall, which is planning an action-packed week of art and culture leading up to the July 4 holiday weekend.

It begins tomorrow with a party for those on the Garden as Art committee. It is not too late to join the event in a significant contributing capacity. Laura Perrotti at Guild Hall has more information. The party will be at a private residence in the Georgica Association; this year’s theme is toxic-free gardens. Edwina von Gal, the honorary chairwoman of the event, will be the featured guest.

 Nilson Matta, a creative force in the evolution and popularity of Brazilian jazz in the United States, will perform at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill tomorrow at 6 p.m. as part of its Jazz en Plein Air series.

Since coming to New York in 1985, Mr. Matta, a bass player, has worked with both American and Brazilian jazz luminaries and created his own musical signature.

The Golden Pear Café will serve beer, wine, and food throughout the evening. Seating is limited; first come, first served.

A concert of American music, including Broadway favorites, love songs, and patriotic tunes, will take place Sunday at 5 p.m. at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor. A supper of hot dogs and ice cream on the church lawn will follow the performance.

The Rev. Mark Phillips, church pastor, Dominick Abbate, music director, and David Cummings, bell choir director, planned the program, which they have informally titled “Music We Don’t Sing in Church.” In addition to the church’s voice and bell choirs, the concert will include two notable soloists, Michael Bodnyk and Susan Vinski.

Free outdoor concerts will rock Montauk’s village green and the dockside stage at Gosman’s this summer, starting at 6:30 p.m. Monday with a performance on the green by Joe Delia and Thieves. Also on the green, an open mike with Ray Red will happen Wednesday from 5:30 to 8 p.m.

The Gosman’s concerts will kick off July 6 at 6 p.m. with the Nancy Atlas Project. Gene Casey and the Lone Sharks, Mamalee Rose and Friends, HooDoo Loungers, and Randy Jackson will also perform on the dockside stage during the summer.

Text and subtext rule in Judith Hudson’s most recent work. First there was the “Sex Advice Drawings” series, beginning in 2008 and continuing up through the present. Now comes a related “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on view at Tripoli Gallery in Southampton.

Revolution, art, and puns by the dozen mark the premiere of Tom Stoppard’s “Travesties” at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor this week. In the play, Henry Carr, an English consular officer played by Richard Kind, tells of his relationships with James Joyce in the midst of writing “Ulysses,” Tristan Tzara as the Dadaist movement picked up speed, and Lenin at the start of the Russian Revolution.

King at Duck Creek

An exhibition of large-scale outdoor aluminum sculptures by William King will be held at Duck Creek Farm in Springs from Sunday through Aug. 4. An opening reception for the artist, a longtime resident of East Hampton, will take place Sunday from 4 to 8 p.m.

Founded in 1795, Duck Creek Farm was originally owned by three generations of the Edwards family. John Little, an East Hampton artist, purchased seven and a half acres of the property in 1948 and moved a 19th-century barn there. The Town of East Hampton bought the property in 2006.

Akiko Kobayashi, a violinist, and Eric Siepkes, a pianist, will give a free concert of works by Beethoven and DeFalla at the Montauk Library on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. The duo met at an international music festival in 2009 and have been performing together ever since.

East End filmmakers have been invited to submit short surf movies to be considered for “Atlantic Vibrations, Vol. 2,” an outdoor screening on the terrace at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill. The deadline for submissions is July 23; the program will take place Aug. 22. Filmmakers can send links to their videos and brief synopses to [email protected].

Bay Street Theater announced a series of new programs and changes last week. Some might appear cosmetic — a new name (Bay Street Theater and Sag Harbor Center for the Arts), a new mission statement, and a newly designed logo — but all are in line with two objectives: to make the theater a more inclusive place, while at the same time raising money for the nonprofit organization.

The next alumni concerts of the Perlman Music Program will take place tomorrow and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Clark Arts Center on Shelter Island. Tomorrow’s program will consist of solo repertoires. Saturday’s chamber music concert will feature Sean Lee and Areta Zhulla, violins; Jocelin Pan, viola; Talya Buckbinder, cello, and Peter Dugan, piano. The program will include works by Beethoven, Dohnanyi, and Schumann.

Tickets to each concert are $20 and can be purchased through perlmanmusicprogram.org or at the door. The concerts are free for ages 18 and under.

 “1 Way Up,” a documentary about two London teenagers struggling to escape their gang-torn neighborhood by competing in a BMX bike competition, will be screened at Guild Hall on Saturday at 3:30 p.m., in advance of its theatrical premiere in London.

Directed by Amy Mathieson, the film is a production of Shine Global, a nonprofit film production company in New York dedicated to ending the abuse and exploitation of children. Tickets to the benefit screening, at $25, $10 for children, are available at the Guild Hall box office.

Guild Hall’s exhibition program will kick into high gear this weekend, as three new exhibitions open Saturday, joining Arlene Slavin’s “Intersections,” which debuted last month.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill is introducing a series of lunchtime talks called “Brain Food: Conversations on Art,” led by Alicia Longwell, the museum’s chief curator. Each talk promises an informal gathering where participants can listen to an hourlong illustrated lecture and conversation on the museum’s exhibitions, publications, and artists who have work in the collection.

Maria Bacardi, a Cuban-born singer who lives in East Hampton, will perform “Romance and Rosés” at the Wolffer Estate Vineyard in Sagaponack next Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. as part of the winery’s Twilight Thursdays series. David Oquendo will accompany her on guitar.

Ms. Bacardi’s debut album, “Deseo,” released last year, is a collection of traditional ballads of love and longing performed in the Cuban bolero style and sung in Spanish, French, and English. The performance is free. Glasses and bottles of wine and cheese and charcuterie plates will be available.

Sandra Bernhard will bring her live show to Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater tomorrow at 8 p.m. The evening blends theater, rock ’n’ roll, and stand-up comedy with a soupcon of burlesque and cabaret.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons is joining forces with Guild Hall on Sunday to celebrate the life and music of Leonard Bernstein, with a 6 p.m. screening there of Susan Lacy’s “Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note” and a related panel discussion. On June 28, the choral society will present “Bernstein! From Bible to Broadway” at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.

Judith Hudson at Tripoli

“Judith Hudson: A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will open at Tripoli Gallery in Southampton tomorrow and remain on view through July 13. The exhibition consists of a series of watercolors that explore the humorous, lusty, and quixotic sides of Shakespeare’s comedy. A reception will be held on Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.

“Shakespeare is the master of one-liners,” said Ms. Hudson, who lives in Amagansett and New York City. “The flesh and fur and dreams and antics of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ are a bottomless resource, as are the digressions.”

The Hamptons International Film Festival SummerDocs series, hosted by Alec Baldwin at Guild Hall, kicks off Saturday with “Life Itself,” the first film to be made about the life of the late Roger Ebert, a film critic and media personality known for his work at The Chicago Sun-Times and on TV. After the screening, there will be a discussion with Chaz Ebert, Mr. Ebert’s widow.

“Travesties,” a Tony Award-winning play by Tom Stoppard, will begin performances on Tuesday at the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. The play, directed by Gregory Boyd, is a partly imagined and partly historical realization of prominent figures living in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I.

There is a lot of white space in the work of both Matt Kenny and Adam Marnie, on view at Halsey Mckay gallery in East Hampton. Sometimes it seems the art is an extension of the wall, a way of lying on top of it while gathering its support. In the case of Mr. Marnie, it is the wall, playing with our notions of positive and negative space.

PechaKucha Night Hamptons will return to the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill for its eighth iteration tomorrow at 6 p.m. Consisting of rapid-fire presentations on the theme of living creatively on the East End, the program features 10 speakers, each of whom shows 20 slides for 20 seconds each, yielding a presentation lasting six minutes and 40 seconds.