Arts & Entertainment
Casting Ballots for the Funny Bone
Fed up with the punditocracy doing the yellathon thing day after day? Tired of watching fellow humans go frothy with the rightousness of their own ego? Whatever happened to the color gray, anyway? Or humor?
Well, this Saturday the air is being taken out of the gasbags — all of them, be they Democrat or Republican.
Combine your love of literature and music by spending the evening with vocalist Stephanie Miele as she sings Broadway ballads inspired by children’s literature.
Yes, there are quite a few.
Richard Rogers, Oscar Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerome Kern and Lerner and Loewe have all whetted their creative fires by igniting the child within.
Examples include C’est Moi from Camelot, Many a New Day from Oklahoma, and Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man of Mine from Showboat.
A Musical Sandwich
Grab a slice of Haydn next week with your packets of roast beef, ham and swiss. Don’t see the connective tissue there? Well, that’s because one never really knows what will be uncovered when pulling back the curtain on our neighbors’ lives.
Perhaps Helen Brunner’s life is just one endless series of inspirations, where everything is magical and amazing. One rather thinks, of course, that the Juilliard-educated mother of four who pioneered Suzuki training in England, simply sees her life that way. And her music students are at the center of it, whether those are Island children, to whom she offered a free (and magical) hour of personal instruction on Sunday, or her own grandchildren and others playing Vivaldi, Bach and other (amazing) pieces as the London Gold Group.
The Edgartown School presents the classic musical comedy Once Upon a Mattress. The play was originally created at a summer camp and opened on Broadway in 1959. It featured the debut of a talented young lady named Carol Burnett.
The cast includes over 25 Edgartown School students in grades six through eight, with stage direction by Donna Swift, musical direction by Beth Carr, stage management by Mariah Mac-Kenzie, sets by Alison Carr and sound by William Fligor and Peter Sawyer,
Rocking the Strings and Buttons
Many years ago, Brendan Begley read the following horoscope in a Dublin newspaper: Follow your heart. A moment of madness is better than a life of logic. Mr. Begley promptly quit his job as a Dublin schoolteacher and headed back to Dingle to start making music.
