The Mazmanian Family took its audience on a musical world tour with Armenia as the home base. At their Oct. 26 concert in Milwaukee, the quartet journeyed across Eastern Europe, to Spain via Cuba, to Ireland and the U.S., but their repertoire’s heart and soul was rooted in the Armenian homeland.
As part of its remembrance of the Armenian Genocide, St. John the Baptist Armenian Church of Milwaukee has invited a prominent local rabbi, Ronald Shapiro, to give a presentation after dinner. Aside from his work at Milwaukee’s Congregation Shalom, Rabbi Shapiro teaches contemporary Jewish studies at Cardinal Stritch University and is active in the city’s interfaith movement.
One hundred and twenty people crowded the Culture Hall at St. John the Baptist Armenian Church for this year’s Milwaukee-area Poon Paregentan celebration. The featured attraction at the big party before the beginning of Great Lent was MidEast Beat, a band from Racine, WI.
On February 14, 2012, priests of the Armenian Church’s Eastern Diocese gathered from across Wisconsin and Illinois at St. John the Baptist Armenian Church, Greenfield. They came to celebrate Ghevontiants.
In a talk at St. John Armenian Church of Milwaukee during its Feb. 27 observation of Vartanants, Dr. Levon Saryan provided the battle with its historical context, outlining the events that came before and after Avarayr.
Donald Rask was one of only three teenage piano students from the Milwaukee area to take part in the Milwaukee Music Teachers Association Youth Concert. He earned his position in the program by passing a citywide audition held in 2010.
St. John Armenian Church of the Greater Milwaukee sponsored a lecture by one of the world’s foremost exponents of Armenian studies, S. Peter Cowe.
