It’s a double feature of classic choreography and the chaos of Wall Street on stage this weekend at The Yard.
First, world-renowned Isadora Duncan specialist Catherine Gallant will perform new choreography plus rarely performed pieces of early modern dance in a program featuring live piano music by Daniel Fox on Friday, August 28, at 8 p.m. and on Saturday, August 29 at 4 p.m. at the arts center on Middle Road in Chilmark.
Grace Church welcomes the Wes Nagy Jazz Ensemble at their 11 a.m. Worship service on the Day of Pentecost: Sunday, May 31. Under the leadership of keyboardist Wes Nagy (who also happens to be the Director of Music at Grace Church), the ensemble will perform a medley of jazz music and will also accompany the congregational singing that day, which will feature hymns from Lift Every Voice and Sing, an African-American hymnal of the Episcopal Church.
The Chappaquiddick Summer Music Festival opens its 14th season on Thursday, July 30, with a recital by internationally acclaimed cellist Inbal Segev, accompanied by pianist Noreen Cassidy-Polera.
During college in 1940, while working as a summer cowhand on the family’s Northern California cattle ranch, Dave Brubeck asked his father’s permission to take a job playing jazz at a San Francisco night club. Confounded by the idea, his father shook his head and replied, “I can’t understand why you would want to spend time in a dark and noisy and smoky place, when you could be out here with me in the fresh air with beautiful country all around you.”
The African Artists’ Community Development Project and the Chikumbuso Widows’ and Orphans’ Project are collaborating to produce a concert this July in order to raise awareness and funds for Zambian children, widows, and artists. Please come to the Vineyard Haven Library Tuesday night, July 7 at 7 p.m. to learn about these two organizations. Help us wage peace.
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.
On April 4, the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School Minnesingers performed at the Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association Festival, and despite this being their first return to the festival in ten years and singing pieces of the highest-rated level of difficulty, they excelled, and were awarded by the association a bronze medal. Congratulations go out to the Minnesingers; their director, Janis Wightman and their accompianist, Melanie Sroka.
Tonight is the annual Tabernacle concert from the Vineyard Sound, the Island’s summer a cappella men’s chorus since 1992. Showtime is 8 p.m.
Drawing members from colleges and universities across the Northeast, the Vineyard Sound present superb singing, inventive arrangements, and engaging humor. The group’s repertoire ranges from traditional songs to classic Beatles tunes, from Van Morrison to Martin Sexton, from gems of the 1980s to contemporary radio hits.
On the heels of his highly successful new release, Toolin’ Around Woodstock with Levon Helm, master guitarist Arlen Roth teams up with daughter Lexie for an evening of acoustic music at the Yard, Sunday, Sept. 6 at 7 p.m. The program will include Roth’s current radio hit version of Layla, as well as songs from his upcoming all Dylan and all Simon and Garfunkel discs.
Kaleidescope Dance will make school more fun (and inspiring) than you ever imagined, when it presents the 14th annual spring show on Sunday, May 31, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the performing arts center at the regional high school.
