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The Island Community Chorus will open the 2008 season of programs at the Tabernacle in Oak Bluffs with a concert at 8 p.m. this Saturday, July 5.
The chorus of more than 100 voices, under the direction of Peter Boak and accompanied by L. Garrett Brown at the Tabernacle’s nine-foot Steinway piano, will present a program of music designed for the holiday weekend, music whose variety pays tribute to the richness of the American experience.
David Stanwood is back in business and invites his old friends and prospective customers to visit his piano shop off Lambert’s Cove Road this Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for a get-reacquainted open house.
Mr. Stanwood, 57, runs Stanwood and Company, a piano restoration, piano tuning and repair operation that has been around for 30 years.
The internationally acclaimed St. Petersburg Quartet opens the 38th summer season of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society with performances at 8 p.m. on July 7 and 8 — Monday at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown, Tuesday at the Chilmark Community Center.
The concert program includes Alexander Glazunov’s Three Novelettes, opus 15; the String Quartet in E-flat Major by Antonin Dvorák, and with the chamber society’s artistic director, Delores Stevens, joining the group on stage, the Piano Quintet by Dmitri Shostakovich.
License Plate Auction
The online charitable auction for Cape and Islands license plate numbers 1 through 999 kicks off Tuesday, July 8 at capeandislandsplate.com.
Bidding for the plates begins on Tuesday and continues through August 1, 2008.
Closing times will vary by plate, so bidders should note the ending time on the website.
The minimum bid for plate numbers 1-10 will be $10,000; the minimum bid for plate numbers 11 – 100 will be $1000; and the minimum bid for plates101 - 999 will be $100.
They’re back! The humongous Aqua Velva pond lilies, indigenous only to Menemsha Pond, have arrived on schedule bringing joy to the intrepid racing sailors of the pond.
These giant flowers have always appeared on July 1, except for last year. Their annual bloom is known locally as the Miracle of the Marks. For many years Art Railton has documented this momentous annual event and the involvement of the great Aqua Velva scientific expert, the infamous Danish Professor Nortu B. Lief.
The Holmes Hole Sailing Association has launched its series of handicap sailboat races from Vineyard Haven harbor.
On Sunday, the association held its Robinson’s Hole Rendezvous Race. Robinson’s Hole is a passage from Vineyard Sound to Buzzards Bay at the west end of Naushon Island.
It was a mostly sunny morning with a brisk southwest wind filling in for the 10 a.m. start outside of the Vineyard Harbor breakwater. Six boats posted for the start.