Itamar Zorman
PIANO TRIOS by MOZART, BEETHOVEN, and RAVEL at MAHAIWE
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) — Piano trios by Mozart, Beethoven, and Ravel will be performed at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Saturday, May 18 at 6 p.m. as part of the Close Encounters With Music chamber series. Musicians for the concert – the second in a series showcasing piano trios that reflect significant junctures in classical music – are violinist Itamar Zorman, pianist Roman Rabinovich and Close Encounters’ artistic director, cellist Yehuda Hanani.
MATUSCHKA RETROSPECTIVE at SOHN FINE ART
(STOCKBRIDGE, Mass.) – A Body Biography, a 40 year retrospective of works by Pulitzer Prize-nominated photographer and activist Matuschka, is on display at Sohn Fine Art through July 1, 2013. There will be a reception for the artist on Saturday, May 18, from 4 to 7pm. The exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of Matuschka’s landmark work, Beauty Out of Damage, an unflinching and riveting self-portrait that rocketed Matuschka to international fame when it was featured on the cover of the New York Times Sunday Magazine in 1993. (Incidentally, this exhibition of Matuschka’s groundbreaking work is all the more timely given this past week’s revelation by Angelina Jolie of her prophylactic double mastectomy.)
THEATER COMPANIES JOIN FORCES for 24-HOUR PROJECT
(PITTSFIELD, Mass.) – For the third year in a row, WAM Theatre and The Mop & Bucket Improv Company (MopCo) will bring together over 50 theatre artists from the Berkshire and Capital Region areas to produce the Berkshires/Capital Region 24hr Theatre Project. Together, these artists will mount five short works; all written, rehearsed, and performed in 24 hours. The 3rd Annual 24hr Berkshires/Capital Region Theatre Project culminated with a performance at the Black Box Theatre at John Sayles School of Fine Arts at Schenectady (N.Y.) High School, on Saturday, May 18 at 8pm.
‘Father with Shoe,’ Roselle Chartock
ROSELLE CHARTOCK COLLAGES on EXHIBIT in HUDSON GALLERY
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Roselle Kline Chartock, of Great Barrington, Mass., is one of three new artists exhibiting this month at 510 Warren Street Gallery‘s May Invitational until Sunday, May 26, 2013. Chartock is a native of Hudson, N.Y., and the work in her exhibition, A Relative History of Hudson, addresses her personal connection to this riverfront town. The other artists in this month’s invitational show are Bob Crimi and Hans Heuberger. All of the artworks in Chartock’s mixed-media show, A Relative History of Hudson, include images of, or connections to, her father, Bill Kline, a Hudson native (as is Chartock), or to her grandfather, Samuel, who started the first shoe store of its kind in Hudson in 1900, a few years after arriving in the United States from Hungary.
Zalmen Mlotek
CABARET of YIDDISH SONGS FROM WWII GHETTOS at MAHAIWE
(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Ghetto Tango, an afternoon of songs and stories celebrating the cabaret music that survived and thrived in the Polish and Lithuanian Ghettos during World War II, will be presented at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Sunday May 19, 2013, at 3pm. The performance is based on Ghetto Tango. a recording by the late Adrienne Cooper, who was one of the world’s most acclaimed singers of Yiddish music, and Zalmen Mlotek, a leading figure in Yiddish musical theater. The concert will feature Zalmen Mlotek, Avram Mlotek and Lisa Fishman of the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene. Both Avram and Lisa embody the youthfulness and vigor of the composers and lyricists who created this music.
A ROCK ‘N’ ROLL CROWN PRINCE to PLAY HELSINKI
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Audiences are being treated to a chance to take the measure of the singer who bears his father’s real name, James McCartney, this spring, as McCartney fils embarks on a full 50-date solo acoustic tour behind his first full-fledged solo album, Me – which comes out next Tuesday – a tour that brings him to Club Helsinki Hudson on Sunday, May 19, 2013, at 8pm. Oh, and did we note that dad, and friends-of-dad such as Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood, have been showing up at various gigs along the way?