TUPPER LAKE — William Tortolano, professor emeritus of St. Michael’s College in Vermont, will give a multi-media presentation on the Group of Seven, an early 20th century group of influential Canadian painters, on Saturday, June 3, at 2 p.m. at the Tupper Arts Center. This talk, rescheduled from earlier this year, is free and open to the public, with a suggested donation of $10. The arts center is located at 106 Park Street.

The Group of Seven felt that Canadians would recognize themselves if they saw the beauty of their landscape. This program presents their works with slides, video and music clips, and commentary, to be followed by a Q&A session. This presentation will also be presented online through Zoom, with the link becoming available soon at tupperarts.org.

This is the second of two presentations by distinguished guest speakers as part of a speaker series co-hosted by Tupper Arts and the Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts. Donations from these talks will benefit the programming at both arts centers.

The first talk, on Jan. 6, featured Harold Rosenbaum, founder of The New York Virtuoso Singers and part-year resident of Tupper Lake, who presented a talk he called “A Concise History of Classical Music.” This program also was presented on Zoom, and that recording will be made available to view after both talks are completed.

Tortolano has been a visiting fellow at Trinity, St. Catherine’s and King’s Colleges in Cambridge, England, and has also held a fellowship from the National Foundation for the Humanities at Yale University and researched Gregorian Chant at St. Pierre de Solesmes. He is the author of “Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Anglo-Black Composer,” “Original Music for Men’s Voices,” “The Mass and The Twentieth-Century Composer,” as well as more than 35 music editions from GIA Publications.

The Group of Seven, also known as the Algonquin School, was a group of Canadian landscape painters from 1920 to 1933, originally consisting of Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald and Frederick Varley. Inspired by Thom Thomson, these Canadian artists felt that Canada’s regions create an artistic mosaic with their diversity: the Maritimes, Rockies, Plains, Old Quebec, First Nations and others.