Art
The Chappaquiddick Summer Music Festival concludes on Thursday, August 13, with a performance by the Split Second Piano Duo, comprising Marc Peloquin and Roberto Hidalgo.
Split Second, described by the New York Times as “gifted [and] musically curious,” has been offering works for four hands at one piano and two pianos for over a decade. The program will include works by Bach, Brahms, Virgil Thomson, Frederic Rzewski and David Del Tredici.
You can bring the kids for the stilt walkers and jugglers, for the popcorn, pizza and face-painting, for all the under-the-big-tent fun that is Cinema Circus at the Chilmark Community Center every Wednesday at 5 p.m. The main act, of course, is the movie. This week the film is Where is Winky’s Horse? and here to review it is Island kid critic Zen Hughes.
For more on the 8 p.m. grownup film, Soul Power, with a question and answer session hosted by director Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, see below.
Four well-known organists will be performing at the First Baptist Church in Vineyard Haven on the evening of Friday, August 14, at 7:30 p.m. Martha Child, Philip Dietterich, David Rhoderick and Nancy Rogers will play the old Hook and Hastings organ. Edson Rogers with his trumpet will take part in this musical program, along with several vocal soloists. There is no admission charge; a free-will offering will be received and used toward the maintenance and repair of the organ.
Russian-born violinist maestro Yuval Waldman (heralded as “spectacular” by the New York Times) will be performing an evening of “lost” Jewish music, accompanied by the artistic director of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society, Delores Stevens, on Thursday, August 13, at 7:30 p.m. The performance is the final event in the Summer Institute series at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center.
Despite being a part of one of the most famous musical families in America, “Sister Kate” Taylor has had a career uniquely her own. After recording three albums and going out on nation-wide tours in the 1970s, Ms. Taylor decided to settle into a quieter life on Vineyard, where she spent several summers in a teepee with husband Charlie Witham and their growing family.
Rabbi Arthur Waskow, creator of the 1969 Freedom Seder, will discuss eco-justice and related issues on Friday, August 7, at 6 p.m. after Shabbat services at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center.
Identified by Newsweek Magazine as one of the 50 most influential American rabbis, Rabbi Waskow founded and directs The Shalom Center, a prophetic voice in Jewish, multireligious and American life. The center applies Jewish and other spiritual thought to the issues of peace, justice, healing the earth and to the celebration of community.