"Greenman is a violinist,
which is a bit like saying LeBron James is a basketball player. Greenman....might
even have more moves."
TOM
FERAN - CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
(click here for full
review Jan. 13, 2004)
"One of the greatest performers
of Eastern-European music anywhere anyplace in the world."
CARL
TOPILOW - CONDUCTOR/FOUNDER OF THE CLEVELAND POPS ORCHESTRA
"....the
extraordinary klezmer violinist Steven Greenman."
MARYLYNN
URICCHIO - PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE
"Greenman,
my current klez fiddle fave...."
STACY
PHILLIPS - STRINGS MAGAZINE
"....Steven
Greenman....particularly impressive."
DON
MACLEAN-WASHINGTON POST
Steven Greenman is the best
composer of Niggun on the scene. Hear a melody of his once and remember it
for life."
ALAN WATSKY - PARTICIPANT OF THE KLEZKANADA FESTIVAL 2003
"Yet another was to hear
the Klezmer fiddle virtuoso and Khevrisa cofounder Steven Greenman tease from
his instrument songs without words that wept their forebodings of bridal suffering
in honey-drenched slides."
MINDY ALOFF - DANCEVIEW
TIMES
"Steven's original compositions
are an extraordinary extension of who he is and who he's become as a musician
and a performer. Steven has always played beautifully and with great sensitivity,
but in these new compositions, Steven is expressing his own thoughts, feelings
and knowledge in a new and exciting way. He's written compositions that are
fresh, yet stem from the finest music of the Yiddish instrumental tradition.
They are a tremendous gift to us all."
DEBORAH
STRAUSS - INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED KLEZMER VIOLINIST
"Steven Greenman is a poet
of the fiddle, a demiurge of sound. When he plays, the landscape of the Jewish
shtetl and the Hasidic courts comes to life."
JANUSZ MAKUCH - DIRECTOR OF THE JEWISH CULTURE FESTIVAL
IN CRACOW, POLAND
"Violinist Steven Greenman
took the spotlight for some high-flying Gypsy fiddling." "Violinist
Steven Greenman....dazzled in bravura numbers by Grigoras Dinicu."
WILMA
SALISBURY - CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER
"Incredibly
crisp clarity and timing ! I could listen all afternoon to this music! Musical
master pieces a treasure to have!"
CHARMAINE MILLOTT - MANAGEMENT CERCEL PRODUCTIONS
VANCOUVER, B.C., CANADA
"With
this recording, Steven Greenman is revealed as the foremost composer of music
in a style based on what we know of these Jewish violin traditions of 100
years ago. ...the music Greenman has composed is of such striking beauty..."
"Greenman's violin demonstrates that he could teach Vassar Clements a
thing or two about country klezmer." "Diving deep into the past,
Greenman has created a contemporary Jewish music of spellbinding beauty. It
should only start a trend."
ARI
DAVIDOW - KLEZMERSHACK
"Violinist was Steven
Greenman, a seasoned performer of traditional East European violin music,
a soloist with symphony and pops orchestras and a rising star."
"Violinist Steven Greenman captivated everyone...."
"Superb were the musical interludes by violinist, Steven Greenman.....performed
with dashing romantic flourish."
VIOLET
SPIVAK - CLEVELAND JEWISH NEWS
"What surprised me most
was that much of what was being played were compositions of Steven's, which
strike you as 'a great old tune you've never heard before' including a deliciously
beautiful 'heart yearning niggun' that he composed in Lubavitch style."
ROGER REID - from
his review of a concert at New York's TONIC (April 2003) written to the Jewish
Music List (jewish-music@shamash.org)