Guild Hall (158 Main Street, East Hampton) continues Academy Icons, a new series that spotlights Guild Hall Academy of the Arts members and their work. This season’s program features films by Susan Lacy, an acclaimed director and producer best known for creating American Masters, the PBS biography series, which began in 1986, profiling artists and visionaries who have helped shape our country’s culture. The second of four programs returns Sunday, August 25 at 7 PM with a screening of Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note followed by a conversation with Susan Lacy, Leonard Bernstein’s daughter Jamie Bernstein, and Maestro producer Fred Berner.
A presence on Broadway, in Hollywood, at Carnegie Hall, and the New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein was a major force in 20th-century music. His exuberant and dramatic style caught the heart of America, bringing classical music to thousands of people from diverse backgrounds. The film includes interviews with Bernstein’s family, friends, colleagues, peers, and critics, as well as his own written and recorded words.
Upcoming Academy Icons with Susan Lacy include Paul Simon: Born at the Right Time on September 6, and Lou Reed: Rock & Roll Heart on September 15 with special guest Laurie Anderson.
Tickets are $25 ($22.50 for Guild Hall members). For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit www.guildhall.org/.
Performing Arts programming is supported in part by funding from The Melville Straus Family Endowment, and Monica and Peter Tessler. Music Programming is supported in part by The Ellen and James S. Marcus Endowment for Musical Programming.
Additional support provided by Friends of the Theater: John and Joan D’Addario, Gabrielle and Gianpaolo de Felice, Lisa Schultz and Ezriel Kornel, Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan, Michèle and Steve Pesner, The Schaffner Family Foundation, Jayne Baron Sherman and Deborah Zum, Straus Family Foundation, and Susi and Peter Wunsch
