Art
The island could be any island. Anyone with connections to an island — such as those of us who live on or visit Martha’s Vineyard — will think it’s their island. The year is 1942, and although there’s a major war going on and hairstyles and clothes are vintage to our modern sensibilities, the scene of three teen males (provenance Brooklyn, Yonkers and New Jersey) slapping hands at the pier for the start of another season is interchangeable from the scene of all teen males regrouping at the start of all the summers in time.
It’s the sixties in the highest arc of the go go era. A boy and a girl meet in the lavatory of a 727. They’re there to flirt and to bargain. He, a self-described Fulbright scholar “gone bad,” needs her to sneak anesthetized birds sealed in hair rollers past customs. Also narcotized poisonous snakes, small ones, sewn into the lining of a lady’s undergarment.
Dr. Amaryllis Iglesias Glass, one of the staff pianists at the Tabernacle, will present a concert with her mother, Amaryllis Iglesias, tonight, July 24, at 8 p.m. A freewill offering will be taken.
Amarylllis Glass won the Schumann Competition in the Johanna Hodges International Piano Competition in 1982 and has performed with the Florida International Symphony Orchestra.
A new piano quintet by composer Gernot Wolfgang, New England Travelogue, will have its world premiere on Monday, July 27, at the Old Whaling Church and again on Tuesday, July 28, at the Chilmark Community Center, as part of a program presented by pianist Delores Stevens, artistic director of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society, and the Eclipse String Quartet.
MV Islander Exhibit
Vineyarders and visitors have another chance for a last ride on the iconic and beloved MV Islander ferry boat, at the West Chop Club where photographer John Budris is showing some of his rare and favorite photographs of the vessel and her crew through July 29. The exhibition is open to the public. Mr. Budris will donate all proceeds from the exhibition to charities benefiting families of veterans wounded or killed in action and children with cancer.
Celebrate midsummer with an unconventional fairy tale, a film about teen romance, basketball, and the realms of fantasy. Max Minsky and Me, a whimsical, heartfelt, feel-good story about the confusions of young love, screens Sunday at 7:30 p.m. at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center on Centre street in Vineyadr Haven.