All are invited for a special shabbat today, April 2, when Rosalie Gerut, musician, singer, songwriter, cantor, recording producer and director leads a joyful and spiritual musical service at 5:30 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center on Center street in Vineyard Haven.
Experiment: Put 17 teenagers together under one roof. Take away their cell phones and send them to their rooms at 10 p.m., lights out at 11. Sketch out a detailed daily itinerary that includes intense workouts, short breaks for meals and absolutely no beach time.
What might they do? Throw temper tantrums? Band together and stage a full-scale revolt?
In this case, they sing. Arias.
This is OperaFest, a two-week, summer camp-like program for some of the youngest and most dedicated opera enthusiasts in the country.
The success of the recent music jams hosted by the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center have provided proof positive that the Island loves klezmer music. So it makes sense that this weekend, the center will ramp up the game with instruction, dancing and performance, with the guidance and expertise of the Strauss/Warschauer Duo, a pair of musicians and teachers of international renown, specializing in klezmer and Yiddish music and dance.
The Chappaquiddick Summer Music Festival> > opens its 15th season on August 5 with a concert by the Amerigo Trio, featuring longtime New York Philharmonic concertmaster Glenn Dicterow, violist Karen Dreyfus and cellist Inbal Segev. The performance begins at 8 p.m. at the Chappaquiddick Community Center.
The program includes a Beethoven serenade, Kodaly’s Intermezzo for string trio, and Leo Weiner’s string trio in g minor. A reception follows the concert and everyone is invited to attend.
Drag that summer wardrobe out from under the bed and get on your flip-flops, because this Saturday, Feb. 13, is Caribbean Night at the Chilmark Community Center from 6:30 to 11 p.m. The Smokin’ Flamingos will provide the music for the evening, while partygoers enjoy dancing, beer, wine and dessert. Raffles and auctions, both live and silent, add to the fun. Admission is $15, and all proceeds benefit the Chilmark School.
Missing your soul men? Well, weep no longer because the Official Blues Brothers Revue will be rocking the pews at Union Chapel in Oak Bluffs this Thursday, July 1 at 8:30 p.m.
Carol Wincenc, one of the most respected and praised flutists performing today, will be the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society featured guest artist in the second concert of its season next Monday at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown.
Ms. Wincenc’s stand-out piece will be Fury of Light, written for her by the well-known young opera composer Jake Heggie, which sets to music Mary Oliver’s poem Sunrise. Ms. Wincenc debuted this work at Merkin Hall in 2009. Another virtuoso piece will be Grigoras Dinicu’s Hora Staccato.
George Frederic Handel’s Passacaglia, a duo for violin and string bass, will open the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music concerts on Monday, August 2 at the Whaling Church in Edgartown and Tuesday, August 3 at the Chilmark Community Center. Robert Schumann’s Marchenbilder for viola and piano, opus 113, Frederic Chopin’s Sonata in g-minor for cello and piano, opus 65, and Franz Schubert’s beloved Quintet, opus 114, The Trout, round out the program.
