Today’s “Fab 5”/ Selected NYCity Events – THURSDAY, NOV. 07, 2013

Sounds of Change: Music in Transition,
Featuring Works by Schubert and Weber
Since 1999, Mannes College has presented a yearlong music festival every year. Each festival has a theme and a program of more than 20 concerts performed by Mannes’ gifted young student artists, distinguished faculty members, and renowned guests and held at prestigious New York City concert venues and cultural institutions. Each festival is an exploration of an individual composer, a musical group, a stylistic movement, or a historical period. The 2013 festival, “Sounds of Change: Music in Transition”, explores music written during transitional periods, from the baroque to the present.
Program:
Franz Schubert – Introduction and Variations on “Trockne Blumen” Flute and Piano
Carl Maria von Weber – Trio in G Minor for Flute, Piano, and Cello, op. 63
Franz Schubert – Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667
Concert Hall, Mannes College, 150 West 85th Street
At 7:30 / FREE ; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served

DAHESH MUSEUM SALON
Seeing through Paintings
How does one restore an art work from the damages of time or natural disaster? How can collectors distinguish a real work of art from a fake?

Artists, collectors, museums, and galleries often call on conservator Rustin Levenson. Find out what she does and how she does it during her illustrated talk, and stay for a book signing.
Dahesh Museum, 145 Sixth Avenue, at Dominick Street
at 6:30pm / FREE
212-759-0606

Marc Ribot Trio*(through Nov. 10)
A dyed-in-the-wool avant-jazz player and a key part of New York’s downtown scene, the guitarist is also a dependably creative and adaptable studio musician, having graced albums by, among others, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss (the Grammy-winning “Raising Sand”), Elton John, Tom Waits, and Elvis Costello. With his own trio, which includes the drummer Chad Taylor and the fabled bassist Henry Grimes, Ribot puts a twisted spin on the blues, exotica, and Albert Ayler-derived free jazz.” (NewYorker mag)
Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th St., West Village,
At 8:30 and 10:30 p.m./ $25, with a one-drink minimum.
255-4037, villagevanguard.com

CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER
New Music in the Kaplan Penthouse
The CMS New Music in the Kaplan Penthouse series champions modern composers of chamber music. Including works in a vast range of styles, this series invites listeners to witness musical innovation performed by an extraordinary cast of musicians in the stunning setting of the Kaplan Penthouse.

Lieberson Quintet for Piano and Strings (2001)
Abrahamsen Ten Preludes for String Quartet (1973)
Golijov The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind for Clarinet and String Quartet (1994)
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 165 W. 65th Street
10th floor of the Rose Building
at 7:30pm – $35

Compagnie Marie Chouinard (through Nov. 10)
“Erik Satie’s Gymnopédies, a gentle, minimalist musical revolution at the end of the 19th century, is an energetic opposite to the choreographer Marie Chouinard’s often brash and abrasive style. Which makes her interpretation of his work — with 11 dancers taking turns at a piano — all the more intriguing. “Gymnopédies,” which also contains nudity, shares a bill with “Henri Michaux: Mouvements,” inspired by the India ink drawings and poetry of the Belgian artist Henri Michaux.” (Schaefer-NYT)
Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street, Chelsea,
at 8 p.m./ $10 to $49.
(212) 242-0800, joyce.org

Before making final plans, we suggest you call the venue to confirm dates and check times, as schedules are subject to change. ==========================================================================================

What’s on View:
Special Exhibitions @ 3 Museum Mile / Fifth Ave. Museums:

“Legends of the Dead Ball Era” (1900-1919) (through Dec. 1)
“Eighteenth Century Pastels” (through Dec. 29)
“Julia Margaret Cameron” (through Jan. 5, 2014)
“Medieval Treasures From Hildesheim” (through Jan. 5, 2014)
“Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800″ (through Jan. 5, 2014)
‘Balthus: Cats and Girls — Paintings and Provocations’ (through Jan. 12, 2014)
“Brush Writing in the Arts of Japan” (through Jan. 12, 2014)
“Venetian Glass by Carlo Scarpa, The Venini Co., 1932–1947” (through March 2, 2014)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, at 82nd St.
(212) 535-7710 / metmuseum.org

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Special Mention: Metropolitan’s northern branch at the Cloisters
Janet Cardiff / The Forty Part Motet (through Dec 8)
The Forty Part Motet (2001), a sound installation by Janet Cardiff, is the first presentation of contemporary art at The Cloisters. Regarded as the artist’s masterwork, and consisting of forty high-fidelity speakers positioned on stands in a large oval configuration throughout the Fuentidueña Chapel, the fourteen-minute work, with a three-minute spoken interlude, continuously plays an eleven-minute reworking of the forty-part motet Spem in alium numquam habui (1556?/1573?) by Tudor composer Thomas Tallis.
Visitors are encouraged to walk among the loudspeakers and hear the individual unaccompanied voices—bass, baritone, alto, tenor, and child soprano—one part per speaker—as well as the polyphonic choral effect of the combined singers in an immersive experience. The Forty Part Motet is most often presented in a neutral gallery setting, but in this case the setting is the Cloisters’ Fuentidueña Chapel, which features the late twelfth-century apse from the church of San Martín at Fuentidueña, near Segovia, Spain, on permanent loan from the Spanish Government. Set within a churchlike gallery space, and with superb acoustics, it has for more than fifty years proved a fine venue for concerts of early music.
Worth the trip to far northern Manhattan.
subway: #1 to 59th St., transfer and “take the A train” to 190th St.,
walk about ½ mile N to the Cloisters.
This is a beautiful location, esp. in the fall, overlooking the Hudson Palisades.
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‘Robert Motherwell: Early Collages’ (through Jan. 5, 2014)
‘Christopher Wool’ (through Jan. 22, 2014)
“Kandinsky in Paris, 1934–1944“ (through Apr. 23, 2014)

Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th St.
(212) 423-3500 / guggenheim.org.

‘Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting From the Mauritshuis’ (through Jan. 19, 2014)
Frick Collection, 1 East 70th St., at Fifth Ave.
admission is by timed tickets.
288-0700 / frick.org

========================================================== Museum Mile is a section of Fifth Avenue which contains one of the densest displays of culture in the world. Ten museums can be found along this section of Fifth Avenue:

• 110th Street – Museum for African Art

• 105th Street – El Museo del Barrio

• 103rd Street – Museum of the City of New York

• 92nd Street – The Jewish Museum

• 91st Street –  Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

• 89th Street – National Academy Museum

• 88th Street – Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

• 86th Street – Neue Galerie New York

• 83rd Street – Goethe-Institut

Last, but certainly not least, America’s premier museum
• 82nd Street – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Additionally, though technically not part of the Museum Mile, the Frick Collection on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 70th St. and the The Morgan Library & Museum on Madison Ave and 37th St are also located near Fifth Ave. Now plan your own museum crawl. ==================================================================================== What’s on View: Top Photography Exhibitions
(NYCity / Manhattan’s WestSide)   

Museum of Modern Art 11 West 53rd Street / 212-708-9400
XL: 19NewAcquisitions in Photography (through Dec. 31)
Walker Evans: American Photographs (through Jan. 26, 2014) 

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street) / 212-535-7710
Julia Margaret Cameron (through Jan. 5, 2014)
Everyday Ephiphanies: Photography and Daily Life Since 1969  (through Jan. 26, 2014)

ICP 1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street / 212-857-0000
Lewis Hine
The Future of America: Lewis Hine’s New Deal Photographs
JFK November 22, 1963: A Bystander’s View of History
Zoe Strauss: 10 Years
All these exhibitions run from Oct 4, 2013–Jan 19, 2014

American Museum Natural History 
79th St. And Central Park West / (212) 313-7278
Picturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Technologies (through May 31, 2014)

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For other selected Museum and Gallery Special Exhibitions see Recent Posts in right Sidebar: “NYCity Events: Manhattan’s WestSide” dated 10/24 and 10/22.