Recently the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society chose singer Emily Lowe as the recipient of its annual Caroline Worthington Scholarship. Emily graduated from the regional high school this past June and is the daughter of Cheryl and Erik Lowe of West Tisbury, and the granddaughter of Ernest Mendenhall and Kathy Logue.
Music lovers bound for the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society’s annual Thanksgiving concert this Saturday had best leave room for dessert. The evening will offer a wide-ranging menu of melodies — some light, some rich — all intended to linger sweetly on the palate.
Guest baritone Thomas Jones presents the first plate — the swaggering Toreador Song from the second act of Georges Bizet’s Carmen.
Gunther Schuller wastes no time. The noted American composer sleeps little and occasionally forgets to eat.
“Eight hours every night?” he said to an NPR reporter last year. “Life is too short.”
In fact, when Delores Stevens, artistic director of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society, asked him last January to write a piece for this summer’s 40th anniversary concert season, he barely hesitated.
