Steven Greenman, who is known for his soulful renditions of Eastern European Jewish music (klezmer) and passionate presentations of Eastern European Gypsy music combined with virtuoso flair and technical precision, will perform at the Massillon Museum’s Rhythms concert on Thursday, March 25.
The doors will open at 7:00 p.m.; the concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. The event is open to everyone. The Museum and the Chit Chat Coffee Shoppe will offer light refreshments for sale. The $15 per-person admission ($12.50 for Massillon Museum members or $10 for students with student ID) may be paid at the door. Advance tickets are also available. The Museum accepts cash, checks, Visa, MasterCard, and Discover.
Steven Greenman is recognized internationally as an outstanding practitioner of traditional Eastern European Jewish klezmer violin. He is producer and lead performer for the recording, Stempenyu’s Dream, which contains his original Jewish and klezmer compositions. He leads the Stempenyu’s Dream ensemble, Di Tsvey and the Steven Greenman Klezmer Ensemble.
One of the first American-born klezmer violinists to create a program and performance style based entirely on the repertoire of European klezmer violin music, Greenman co-founded the Khevrisa ensemble together with the cimbalist, Walter Zev Feldman in 1998. He is co-producer and lead performer of the recording Khevrisa-European Klezmer Music on the Smithsonian Folkways label.
He has taught klezmer music at KlezKamp, KlezKanada, KlezFest London, Internationales Klezmer Festival Fuerth, and Klezmer Wochen Weimar. He has performed at the Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland and at Toronto’s Ashkenaz-A Festival of New Yiddish Culture.
As a concert performer Greenman has been a guest soloist with the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, the Canton Symphony Orchestra, and the Akron Symphony Orchestra, performing his own arrangements of traditional Eastern European Gypsy violin music and klezmer music.
Greenman has performed internationally with Khevrisa and other notable klezmer ensembles such as the Klezmatics, Budowitz, the Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band, Kapelye and Di Tsvey (the Greenman/ Rushefsky duo). His own group, the Steven Greenman Klezmer Ensemble, is dedicated to performing his own compositions and a transitional Jewish/Moldavian klezmer repertoire.
The Massillon Museum is located at 121 Lincoln Way East (Ohio Route 172), in downtown Massillon. Free parking is available on adjacent streets and in nearby city lots. Call the Museum at 330-833-4061 or visit massillonmuseum.org for concert details.
Canton Ballet will present its fantastic full length version of The Wizard of Oz in two matinee performances Saturday and Sunday, March 20 and 21, at the Canton Palace Theatre under the artistic direction of Cassandra Crowley. Performance times are 2:00 p.m.
This week’s mystery spotlight location was the National First Ladies’ Library in downtown Canton! Congratulations to Katie H., who won a $100 value prize pack, and to everyone who correctly guessed the location.
d had their first Pro-Formance Swap Meet. They had envisioned a place where racers of all kinds could buy and sell their performance cars and parts. What they did not realize was this one adventure would open a whole new chapter in their lives.
A full size signature crazy quilt with New Berlin residents’ names embroidered and painted on beautiful fabric pieces with fancy stitchery, will be available for viewing and guests to search for family names. A display of fancy stitches and fabric swatches are components of crazy quilts. Signature quilts were sometimes made as a fundraiser for a church, missionaries or even to support troops during a war by either selling the quilt at an auction or people paid to have their name included on the quilt. Also called “friendship quilts” it was common for a signature quilt to be given to a member of the community as a memento of an important community event.
Kick off the night at 5:30 p.m. at TEAM ARTS – the starting whistle of the 12-week Annual Arts Campaign, held at the Canton Palace Theatre and offering free food and fun including performances by the Timken H.S. Marching Band, VOCI and the GlenOak cheerleaders. Then, stick around for St. Pet’s Day, the annual Celtic celebration (from 7-10) benefiting Stark Animal Rescue Groups and featuring Irish crooners like Lisa Spicer, Ashley Brooke Toussant and performances by the MacConmara Irish Dancers and the Moonflowers.
In 1943, a sympathetic Christian family hid eight-year-old Nelly Zygmunt and her mother from the Nazis in Lwow, Poland. During their year of confinement, Nelly created brightly detailed watercolor dreams of her ideal world. Her optimistic paintings are an important counterpart to the cruelty depicted by most children of the Holocaust.
“Nelly Toll: Now,” the artist’s recent paintings and collages will be exhibited in the Museum’s second-floor gallery through April 11. This will be the first exhibit of Toll’s 2009-2010 body of abstract and impressionistic artwork.
