Guild Hall: Laurie Anderson’s Latest Album “Amelia’ Listening Party, Aug 23rd, 7 PM

Guild Hall will host one of America’s most renowned creative pioneers,

Laurie Anderson’s latest album, Amelia on Friday, August 23 at 7 p.m.

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AMELIA: LISTENING PARTY & CONVERSATION WITH LAURIE ANDERSON AT GUILD HALL

Guild Hall in East Hampton presents one of America’s most renowned creative pioneers,

Laurie Anderson’s latest album, Amelia, on Friday, August 23, at 7 p.m.

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During this exclusive listening party, guests will be among the first to experience the new album, featuring collaborations with the renowned Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, as well as contributions from acclaimed artists like Anohni, Marc Ribot, Rob Moose, and others. After the full album preview, Anderson will participate in a conversation about the creative process behind Amelia, and how she wove together historical narrative and musical innovation to honor Amelia Earhart’s daring spirit.

Amelia Earhart was a passionate pioneer of early aviation, achieving fame as the first woman to cross the Atlantic, in 1932. Five years later, she embarked on a flight around the world. Before she could complete the voyage, her plane disappeared without a trace; it has never been found.

“The words used in Amelia are inspired by her pilot diaries, the telegrams she wrote to her husband, and my idea of what a woman flying around the world might think about,” Anderson says.

This event offers a chance to hear firsthand from Laurie Anderson, one of today’s most significant multimedia artists, as she dives deep into Amelia’s world and explores the boundaries of music, history, and imagination. Seating is general admission, and tickets are $35. For more details and to purchase tickets, please visit www.guildhall.org.

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LAURIE ANDERSON

Laurie Anderson is one of America’s most renowned—and daring—creative pioneers. Her work encompasses music, visual art, poetry, film, and photography and has challenged and delighted audiences worldwide for over forty years.

In a recent 60 Minutes profile, Anderson Cooper said she “is a pioneer of the avant-garde, but … that doesn’t begin to describe what she creates. Her work isn’t sold in galleries. It’s experienced by audiences who come to see her perform: singing, telling stories, and playing strange violins of her own invention … she [blends] the beautiful and the bizarre, challenging audiences with homilies and humor. She blurs boundaries across music, theater, dance, and film.” The Washington Post has said she “doesn’t just tell stories; she draws out every word with a kind of physical pleasure, tasting its flavor as she probes the everyday mysteries of life,” and the Guardian has called Anderson “one of the great popular artists and storytellers of our time.”

“O Superman” launched Anderson’s recording career in 1980, rising to number two on the British pop charts and subsequently appearing on Big Science, the first of her seven albums on the Warner Brothers label. Other record releases include Mister Heartbreak, United States Live, Strange Angels, Bright Red, and the soundtrack to her feature film Home of the Brave. Anderson released her first album with Nonesuch Records in 2001, the critically lauded Life on a String. Her subsequent releases on the label include Live in New York (2002), Homeland (2010), the soundtrack to Anderson’s acclaimed film Heart of a Dog (2015), and her Grammy-winning collaboration with Kronos Quartet, Landfall (2018). Additionally, Anderson’s virtual-reality film La Camera Insabbiata, with Hsin-Chien Huang, won the 2017 Venice Film Festival Award for Best VR Experience, and, in 2018, Skira Rizzoli published her book All the Things I Lost in the Flood: Essays on Pictures, Language and Code, the most comprehensive collection of her artwork to date.

Recent exhibitions and installations of Anderson’s work include Habeas Corpus at New York’s Park Avenue Armory; her largest exhibition to date, The Weather, at Washington, DC’s Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum of Modern Art; and Looking into a Mirror Sideways at Stockholm’s Moderna Museet, which was her largest European exhibition to date. Anderson recently toured with Sex Mob, performing her piece Let X=X. Earlier this year, she was awarded the 2024 Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication, along with Christopher Nolan and David Attenborough, and the International Astronomical Union named a minor planet in her honor: Asteroid 270588, Laurieanderson.

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Laurie Anderson portrait by Ebru Yildiz

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Guild Hall is the cultural heart of the East End: a museum, performing arts, and education center, founded in 1931. We invite everyone to experience the endless possibilities of the arts: to open minds to what art can be; inspire creativity and conversation; and have fun.

Guild Hall has served four generations and introduced audiences to the most storied artists and performers of our time. As they approach their centennial, they have completed of a state-of-the-art renovation to match the caliber of their artistry for twenty-first-century audiences. The facility-wide Capital Improvements Project & Campaign includes top-of-the-line physical and technological enhancements to better deliver on their mission as an artist-driven, interdisciplinary institution.

For more information about Guild Hall, please visit GuildHall.org.

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SPONSORS

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, 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