MUSIC
THURSDAY & FRIDAY, JULY 25 & 26, 2019
7:00 PM THURSDAY
8:00 PM FRIDAY

AMOC: Veils for Desire
THURSDAY: Spanish Courtyard, Caramoor
149 Girdle Ridge Road, Katonah, Weschester
FRIDAY: Guild Hall
158 Main Street, East Hampton, Long Island

THURSDAY: $30-$56; $15-$56 children
https://www.caramoor.org/events/american-modern-opera-company/
FRIDAY: $40-$85; free Student Rush tickets
https://www.guildhall.org/events/american-modern-opera-companys-veils-for-desire/

The American Modern Opera Company presents co-Artistic Director Matthew Aucoin providing pianist accompaniment to the fantastic countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and tenor Paul Appleby in a program of songs in which unspeakable desires are hidden. So of course there's some Britten (although probably not what you'd expect). Monteverdi, sure -- and of course there are gonna be some pieces by Aucoin himself. But wait a minute: Bach? Unspeakable desires hidden in Bach?????? Wayne Koestenbaum's poetic narration should reveal all.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: At Caramoor, picnic! In East Hampton, kick it Old Old Skool at Bostwick's Chowder House (or, better yet, travel a little bit more -- I'm assuming if you're out there that you have a car -- to Bostick's waterfront mothership, Bostwick's on the Harbor), or New Old Skool at Nick & Toni's.