YouTube Premiere and chat with artist GE Smith during the concert.
A musical series with very rare couplings, highlighting conversations, stripped down to the bone, with exclusive artists in a highly intimate setting.
Recorded Live in our John Drew Theater at Guild Hall on June 28, 2019.
During this livestream premiere on Sunday which will also celebrate the 90th birthday of Stephen Sondheim, Errico will be joining Guild Hall’s YouTube Channel to answer questions from viewers in real time about the concert and Sondheim. The concert can be viewed here: guildhall.org/melissaerrico or https://youtu.be/Ryo4VzX677A
The Wall Street Journal raved about Melissa Errico’s album ‘Sondheim Sublime’: “The best all-Sondheim album ever recorded, in which radiantly warm singing and sensitive, intelligent interpretation are tightly and inseparably entwined.” For one night only Errico brought her unique vision of Broadway’s greatest songwriter to Guild Hall and presents it here to remind us of the power of music to at least try and mend the world.
Read & watch more:
SondheimSublime.com / SondheimSublime.com/sixty-second-sondheim.html
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In this disconcerting and confusing time, Guild Hall is delighted to offer as a special live-streaming treat the premiere of one of the most clarifying and crystalline concerts we’ve presented in recent years, Tony-nominee Melissa Errico’s in-concert performance of her beautiful album Sondheim Sublime. During this livestream premiere on Sunday which will also celebrate the 90th birthday of Stephen Sondheim, Errico will be joining Guild Hall’s YouTube Channel to answer questions from viewers in real time about the concert and Sondheim.
Accompanied by the great jazz pianist Tedd Firth, last summer Melissa came to Guild Hall, where she has been appearing steadily in concert since she was in her twenties, to ‘sing down’ her album, which includes such Sondheim classics as “Send In The Clowns”, “Children and Art” and “Goodbye, For Now”. The concert was co-written with Adam Gopnik, staff writer for The New Yorker Magazine. Apart from the unchanging beauty of Melissa’s voice and the mischievous glamour of her style, it was the unique emphasis of her Sondheim program that made us think it was especially suited to this troubling time. Instead of singing the familiar sly, satiric Sondheim songs, she reached us all in that room by presciently choosing instead those songs of Sondheim that seem to speak to our most profound needs for comfort and reassurance, songs that are about confusion, protection, danger, and redemption – with some delight thrown in along the way. The anthem of selfless love, “Not While I’m Around”, the great song of friendship in uncertain times, “With So Little To Be Sure Of” — she calls those songs “sublime”, referencing the tradition of art that both frightens and inspires us.
Though this video was originally meant only as an archival record, shot with a single camera, at this time of trouble Guild Hall asked her permission, which she graciously gave, to place the entire concert on their YouTube Channel.
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“Her familiarity with the way the [Sondheim’s] songs work to advance character and story in vivo naturally informs her in vitro style, which is actorly to begin with. Her fierce “Loving You” from “Passion” brought unusual attention to the two distinct thoughts often blurred in the line “I will live and I would die for you. That attention to the lyrics and their rush of harsh “wisdoms” was Ms. Errico’s keynote. She refreshed the cabaret staple “The Miller’s Son,” from “A Little Night Music,” by setting up each of its three verses as a different escape fantasy. In a lightly jazzed “Not While I’m Around,” from “Sweeney Todd,” she demonstrated how the meaning that is locked in tiny verbal gestures can be released with bold phrasing. She shone in selections, like the three from “Passion,” whose lushness she could relax into without underlining.”
— Jesse Green/The New York Times
Melissa Errico has graciously given her permission to release this archival concert recording of Sondheim Sublime, performed in our John Drew Theater at Guild Hall on June 30, 2019.
The co-host of The Kitchen talks about her favorite East End ingredients, recipes, and tips with Florence Fabricant, our host of Stirring the Pot.
Recorded on August 18, 2019 in our John Drew Theater
Join us for this YouTube Premiere to experience this stream with arts lovers around the world. A moderator from Guild Hall will join the chat discussion to answer any questions.
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A look back at some of the great moments in our history of arts and education programming.
82nd Artist Members Exhibition – Museum Mondays: Curatorial Assistant’s Choice with Casey Dalene
Abstract Expressionism Revisited: Selections from the Guild Hall Museum Permanent Collection – Gallery Talk with Joan Marter
Joyce Kubat: My People – Gallery Talk with Joyce Kubat
Tony Oursler: Water Memory – Gallery Talk with Tony Oursler
Syd Solomon: Concealed and Revealed – Gallery Talk with Mike Solomon
Please Send To: Ray Johnson – Gallery Talk with Jess Frost
Sara Mejia Kriendler: In Back of Beyond – Gallery Talk with Sara Mejia Kriendler
Ellsworth Kelly in the Hamptons – Gallery Talk with Phyllis Tuchman
Chuck Close: Recent Works – Talk with Chuck Close and Robert Storr
Hiroyuki Hamada: Sculptures and Prints – Gallery Talk with Hiroyuki Hamada
Robert Motherwell: The East Hampton Years, 1944–1952 – Gallery Talk with Phyllis Tuchman
Rafael Ferrer: Contrabando – Gallery Talk with Rafael Ferrer and Barry Schwabsky
Melissa Errico: Sondheim Sublime – Full Concert
GE Smith’s PORTRAITS featuring Loudon Wainwright III & Wesley Stace (aka John Wesley Harding) produced by Taylor Barton
Melissa Errico: Sondheim Sublime – “Losing My Mind”
The Django Festival Allstars
Stirring the Pot with Florence Fabricant and Tom Colicchio
Stirring the Pot with Florence Fabricant and Jacques Pépin
Stirring the Pot with Florence Fabricant and Alex Guarnaschelli
Stirring the Pot with Florence Fabricant and Katie Lee
Artist Dialogue: Clifford Ross with Paul Goldberger and Shirin Neshat
Robert Motherwell: The East Hampton Years, 1944-1952
Panel Discussion with Phyllis Tuchman, Jack Flam, Catherine Craft, and Clifford Ross
Re-Thinking Modern Art: A Preview of the MoMA’s New Collection Galleries with Ann Temkin
In association with the Pollock Krasner House and Study Center
Collector’s Speak: Sotheby’s presents Treasures from Chatsworth
FAPE and the Role of the Artist – Talk with Robert Storr, Tina Barney, Lynda Benglis, Odili Donald Odita, and Joel Shapiro
In association with the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies
Directed by Melina León
(Peru/Spain/US, 2019, 97 minutes)
Spanish & Quechua w. English subtitles
Based on harrowing true events, Song Without a Name tells the story of Georgina, an indigenous Andean woman whose newborn baby is whisked away moments after its birth in a downtown Lima clinic – and never returned. Stonewalled by a byzantine and indifferent legal system, Georgina approaches journalist Pedro Campas, who uncovers a web of fake clinics and abductions – suggesting a rotting corruption deep within Peruvian society. Set in 1988, in a Peru wracked by political violence and turmoil, Melina León’s heart-wrenching first feature renders Georgina’s story in gorgeous, shadowy black-and-white cinematography. Song Without a Name is a “Kafkaesque thriller” (The Hollywood Reporter) that unflinchingly depicts real-life, stranger-than fiction tragedies with poetic beauty.
NOW SHOWING brings acclaimed first-run art house, independent, and world cinema films currently in theaters to the East End.
Directed by Ken Loach
(UK, 2019, 101 minutes)
The British working class is once again the empathetic subject of Ken Loach’s SORRY WE MISSED YOU, a wrenching, intimate family drama that exposes the dark side of the so-called “gig economy”. Ricky, a former laborer, and his home-attendant wife Abby—who lost their home in the 2008 financial crash—are desperate to get out of their financial distress. When an opportunity comes up for Ricky to work as his own boss as a delivery driver, they sell their only asset, Abby’s car, to trade it in for a shiny new white van and the dream that Ricky can work his way up to someday owning his own delivery franchise. But the couple find their lives are quickly pushed further to the edge by an unrelenting work schedule, a ruthless supervisor and the needs of their two teenage children. Capturing the sacred moments that make a family as well as the acts of desperation they need to undertake to make it through each day, this universal story is skillfully and indelibly told with unforgettable performances and a searing script by Loach’s long-time collaborator Paul Laverty.
Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
(Belgium, 2019, 84 minutes)
The Dardenne Brothers won this year’s Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival for this brave new work, another intimate portrayal-in-furious-motion of a protagonist in crisis. The filmmakers’ radical empathy alights on a Muslim teenager (extraordinary first-time actor Idir Ben Addi) in a small Belgian town who has been radicalized by his Imam despite the desperate protestations of his single mother (Claire Bodson), and who winds up hatching a murderous plot targeting his beloved teacher (Myriem Akheddiou). Taking a serious view of a difficult issue—the effect of fanaticism on the body and soul—the Dardennes here remind viewers why they continue to be at the center of 21st-century cinema. –New York Film Festival
NOW SHOWING brings acclaimed first-run art house, independent, and world cinema films currently in theaters to the East End.
Directed by Mike Nichols
(USA, 1983, 131 minutes)
In 1983, celebrated director Mike Nichols put his successful theater career on hold to tell the story of chemical technician and union labor activist Karen Silkwood. From a script by Alice Arlen, and a first time screenwriter named Nora Ephron, Nichols assembled an all-star cast featuring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell and Cher who gave one of her first dramatic performances on screen. The film would go on to be nominated for five Academy Awards, and its exploration of the importance of both whistleblowers and corporate accountability seems as relevant today as it did almost 40 years ago. A conversation about the film’s importance between HIFF Board chair Alec Baldwin and Artistic Director David Nugent will follow the screening.
HamptonsFilm is pleased to continue to curate the hit screening series NOW SHOWING, featuring acclaimed first-run, art house, independent, and world cinema.
Directed by D.W. Young
(USA, 2019, 99 minutes)
Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history. THE BOOKSELLERS takes viewers inside their small but fascinating world, populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers.
Executive produced by Parker Posey, the film features interviews with some of the most important dealers in the business, as well as prominent collectors, auctioneers, and writers such as Fran Lebowitz, Susan Orlean, Kevin Young and Gay Talese.
NOW SHOWING brings acclaimed first-run art house, independent, and world cinema films currently in theaters to the East End.
Directed by Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn
(UK, 2019, 92 minutes)
Joan and Tom (Academy Award® nominee Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson) have been married for many years. An everyday couple with a remarkable love, there is an ease to their relationship which only comes from spending a lifetime together. When Joan is diagnosed with breast cancer, the course of her treatment shines a light on their enduring devotion, as they must find the humor and grace to survive a year of adversity.
NOW SHOWING brings acclaimed first-run art house, independent, and world cinema films currently in theaters to the East End.