The Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society concludes its 39th summer season with a pair of concerts on Monday, August 17, at the Old Whaling Church, and Tuesday, August 18, at the Chilmark Community Center, featuring violinist Roger Wilkie, cellist Antonio Lysy and pianist Delores Stevens, artistic director of the music society.

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.

Cokie Roberts Talk

Cokie Roberts, senior news analyst for National Public Radio and ABC News political commentator, will be speaking at a brunch at the Farm Neck Golf Club Café in Oak Bluffs Friday, August 14 from 10 a.m. to noon.

Slow Fish — the pleasures of eating seafood harvested in a sustainable manner — is the topic of a Menemsha Fisheries Development Fund lecture on Wednesday, August 12 at 5:30 p.m. at the Chilmark Public Library.

Development fund president Warren Doty will talk about the growing slow fish movement, an offshoot of the international Slow Food organization that originated in Italy. Like it’s counterpart, the pleasures of eating well are at the core of slow fish and it’s stated mission to educate, promote and protect.

Historic Oak Bluffs

On Thursday, August 13 the Oak Bluffs historical commission continues its summer programs with Revisiting Summer Recreation in Oak Bluffs - 1870s to 1930s. The program takes place at the Oak Bluffs Public Library Meeting Room from 6 to 7:30 p.m. A slide show will accompany information about croquet, roque, bathing, roller skating, horse racing, biking, golf, tennis, baseball and the Flying Horses. Little known facts will be shared. Refreshments will be served.

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.