Arts & Entertainment
Art for the Masses
Play It Again, David
Shaw Cramer opens its third Double Feature special exhibit — presenting the art work of Leslie Baker and Eric Jensen in the main gallery with Elizabeth Lockhart Taft and Eileen Braun in the upper spotlight gallery — with an artists’ reception on Friday, July 30 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Jazz Baroness, a 2009 documentary film, will be featured Sunday, August 1, in the summer Best of the Boston Jewish Film Festival series at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center in Vineyard Haven.
Most jazz fans have heard of Baroness Pannonica Rothschild de Koenigswater, whether they realize it or not. Known familiarly as Nica, she was immortalized in compositions by such jazz masters as Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Drew and Jon Hendricks.
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.
Sure, Mozart created some of the most beautiful music ever written, but he also was a master of comic theatre. New York City Opera dramaturg Cori Ellison will talk about the composer’s collaborations with some of the funniest guys in the (18th century) business when she presents All Things Mozart, a lecture and discussion at The Yard, on Tuesday, August 3, from 5 to 6:30 p.m.
