2011-2012 SEASON

To purchase tickets for upcoming events, call 952.381.3499 or email tickets@sabesjcc.org.

Concert: Bella Duo featuring Andrea Stern (harp) and Jane Garvin (flute)
Wednesday, May 23 at 7 pm

Minneapolis-based musician Andrea Stern has been a professional performing artist for over two decades. Her experience performing with symphonies throughout the world, playing for the Minnesota Opera, and being an adjunct faculty member at Augsburg College and the University of St. Thomas, have allowed her the ability to engage audiences and students in their appreciation for the arts. Andrea trained at the Cleveland Institute of Music, holds a Bachelor of Music from New England Conservatory in Boston, and also did graduate studies at The University of Arizona.

Jane Garvin has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble, Boston Symphony and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. As a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, Jane had the opportunity to play under Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. She studied at the New England Conservatory, and has taught at Holy Cross, Brandeis University, the College of St. Benedict, MacPhail, and is currently teaching at the University of St. Thomas.

Andrea and Jane delight concert audiences with an eclectic range of musical themes from classical to Celtic to popular.

Tickets
$15 General Public
$12 JCC Premium/Community Members and Students

Musical Minyan

Musical Minyan is an ever-growing, never-slowing group of mature performers, dedicated to performing the great songs of stage and screen. Musical Minyan has featured a wide range of popular music from American, Israeli and Yiddish culture, as well as classic jazz standards and inventive song parodies. Enroll at any time and come join this spirited vocal ensemble for weekly songs and social fun! Concert performances will take place at the Sabes JCC several times throughout the year. The group will meet continually throughout the year – every Wednesday, with additional meetings scheduled as concerts draw closer. One month written notice will be required if you choose to stop enrollment at any time.

This summer, please help us welcome our new director, Stephen Houtz. A native of New Mexico, Stephen is active as a composer, pianist, vocal coach and performer, serving in that capacity for a variety of theaters, schools, opera companies and studios. His compositions have been performed throughout the United States. Houtz’ song, The Enticing Lane, is part of the AIDS Quilt Songbook project and included on the Innova CD release Heartbeats. He is a recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Assistance Fellowship for composition. He has been music director for Commonweal Theatre Company, St. Croix Festival Theatre, Actors Theatre of Minnesota, History Theatre, Paul Bunyan Playhouse, Illusion Theater, the Composer/Librettist Studio at New Dramatists in New York, the New Music-Theater Ensemble, Sesame Street Live and The Playwrights Center.


Musical Minyan is for ages 55+
Beginning June 6
Join us Wednesday, May 30 from 10:30 am - noon for a meet-and-greet with Stephen!
Wednesdays, ongoing: 10 am – noon
No programming Wednesdays July 4 and September 26
Monthly Fee: $15 members; $18 non-members

Spring Comedy Cabaret
Sunday, April 22 at 7 pm

Featuring Laura Thorne, Rabbi Glaser, David Harris and more!
HOSTED BY FRANK FEINBERG

2012 MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH HUMOR FESTIVAL
January 14–28, 2012

Mark your calendars for our 3rd annual Minneapolis Jewish Humor Festival. Local and nationally known stand-up comedians join together with theatre and music performance, film, visual art, and workshops to celebrate the Jewish contribution to the world of humor. Opening night, January 14, features hysterical comedian and musician, Julie Goldman. Other featured performers include local star writer/performer, Amy Salloway, our favorite [inappropriate] Rabbi Sim Glaser, NYC-based stand-up comedian, Dave Goldstein, and more!

Discovering the Jewish Tango
Mandrágora Tango Lecture & Concert

Mandrágora Tango is a vibrant collective of tango musicians based in Minneapolis, dedicated to preserving the nearly-lost musical forms of tango and translating them for today’s listeners and dancers. Tango music defies categorization, living somewhere between classical, jazz and world beat, with Jewish roots that not many know about. Mandrágora creates music that is fresh, engaging, danceable and nostalgic. Please join us for a night of dancing, learning, and fabulous music. Ticket includes light refreshments.

Kavanessence!

Escape the cold outside with the heat of Kavenessence! Kavanessence is a sparkling musical alliance featuring Venezuelan vocalist and our own JC Zumba instructor, Vanessa Dembo, and American musician/vocalist and JC Musical Minyan director, Mark Bloom. Kavanessence offers a tremendous diversity of styles, from Israeli and Yiddish favorites, to Venezuelan pop and jazz, to European, Latin and American songbook standards. Song lyrics are presented in bilingual fashion, energized by innovative rhythms and harmonies.

The Diary of Anne Frank
By Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
Newly adapted by Wendy Kesselman
Directed by Anya Kremenetsky

In this transcendently powerful new adaptation by Wendy Kesselman, Anne Frank emerges from history a living, lyrical, intensely gifted young girl, who confronts her rapidly changing life and the increasing horror of her time with astonishing honesty, wit, and determination. An impassioned drama about the lives of eight people hiding from the Nazis in a concealed storage attic, The Diary of Anne Frank captures the claustrophobic realities of their daily existence—their fear, their hope, their laughter, their grief. Each day of these two dark years, Anne’s voice shines through: “When I write I shake off all my cares. But I want to achieve more than that. I want to be useful and bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!”

Lori Cahan-Simon is a singer/folkorist and musical ethnographer from Cleveland and has been singing professionally since the age of 14.
Lori has performed children’s material, jingles, comedy, and Rock, R&B, Jazz, and Klezmer styles throughout the country and the world. She is also a vocalist with the Workmen’s Circle Klezmer Orchestra. Music from her Passover album “Songs My Bubble Should Have Taught Me” is used in the Menscher Brothers film “Seder!” She has taught Yiddish Culture and Language in Cleveland for the performing and culinary arts for the last decade.

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