Arts & Entertainment
or the first time in its nearly 40-year history on the Island, the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society will open its summer concert series by offering free admission to the first two shows. The series is a gift from Sam Feldman to Vineyard music lovers in honor of his late wife Gretchen. The performances of William DeRosa and Friends on Monday night at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown, and on Tuesday at the Chilmark Community Center will be open to the public free of charge.
As filmmaker Roman Polanski once said: “Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theatre.” He clearly never saw a film screened at the Tabernacle. As riveting as the movie may be, it would be next to impossible not to appreciate the open-air theatre in which it was shown.
Seashore Ramble
Chilmark native Conrad Neumann will present a free program titled Geo-rambles at Sea and Ashore in Pictures, Poems and Yarns: A Geologist/Oceanographer’s Travels at the Chilmark Public Library on Wednesday, July 15, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Mr. Neumann, who summers in Chilmark and lives in Chapel Hill, N.C. in the winter, taught geology and oceanography at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill for many years.
CAMUS, A ROMANCE. By Elizabeth Hawes. Grove Press. July 2009. 304 pages. $25 hardcover.
As an undergrad, Elizabeth Hawes became fascinated with Albert Camus and embarked on an exploration of not only the work but also the world of the brilliant, handsome and charismatic writer and philosopher. Although she was physically half a world away and metaphorically a universe away from her subject, she was determined to somehow enter her idol’s world.
The Aquinnah Shop Restaurant atop the Gay Head Cliffs is a morning ritual for many early risers. What it lacks for convenience, it makes up for with spectacular vistas. The scent of blueberry pancakes, or the homemade fishcakes, adds to the sensory seductiveness. A metal spoon jingles in every hot coffee that is served, always in a glass cup.
Seasonal residents Peter and Bobby Farrelley are famously fanatical Red Sox fans, so it’s no surprise their names appear as executive producers on the film The Lost Son of Havana, about legendary Sox pitcher Luis Tiant, the folk-hero hurler with a 19-year career in the majors, most memorably at Fenway. Tonight the film has its Island debut at 8 p.m. at the Chilmark Community Center, with Q& A with some of the filmmakers after the screening.
