Arts & Entertainment
Chamber Music
This weekend the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society (MVCMS) begins its 2012 season by hosting a concert on Saturday, May 26, at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown.
The concert features Sharan Leventhal on violin, Lila Brown on viola, Jonathan Miller on cello and Delores Stevens on piano. The pieces will include work by Mozart, Joaquín Turina and Richard Strauss
Opera Weekend
Sweet Life Café is hosting three wine dinners in support of opera on the Vineyard.
What, you didn’t know the Island was awash in opera? Well, this summer joining established events such as Opera Noire and Dance Opera Theatre, there will be a new Opera Weekend in August produced by Wendy Taucher.
The first dinner takes place Thursday, May 31, and features a Veuve Clicquot champagne dinner including a four-course dinner with five different champagnes.
In researching The Chappy Ferry Book, author Tom Dunlop asked his fellow Islanders what they thought was the most spectacular thing to hit the boat in its 200 years of operation
“I’ve gotten some good answers: a whale, a meteorite,” Mr. Dunlop said in an interview this week. “To a man and to a woman they stop and stare at me when I say, ‘No, an airplane hit it.’”
Flyfishing Classes
In his memoir, A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean introduced many readers to the art of flyfishing. The movie of that memoir, featuring Brad Pitt in perhaps his most golden boy moment, gathered up quite a few more believers. But for those still on the sidelines, worried perhaps about tying themselves up in knots rather than placing the fly just so beside a lily pad or out past the surf, the Martha’s Vineyard Rod and Gun Club is coming to the rescue.
Minnesingers Take to the Stage
Long before Glee there were The Minnesingers.
This year the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School singing troupe is turning 45-years-old. To celebrate, as part of their spring performance this weekend, they are taking a tour down memory lane. One of the numbers will be a medley of songs performed over the past near half-century. The group will also perform the Seven Deadly Sins through song and dance.
On Tuesday, May 22, Jim Thomas takes the helm of the Vineyard Haven Libraries’ Civil War Series. Mr. Thomas’ specialty is slave songs and the underground railroad and he has given musical presentations on spirituals in Germany, Africa, Brazil, Sweden, Austria, and America, not to mention Martha’s Vineyard. He has also served as a soloist with the Paul Hill Chorale and Washington Singers at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and founded the American Red Cross Chorus and has served as its director since 1976.
