Today’s “Fab 5”/ Selected NYCity Events – WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13, 2013

The Worlds of Sholem Aleichem: The Man Who Created Tevye
Author Jeremy Dauber in conversation with Jason Zinoman, The New York Times. Sholem Aleichem, “The Jewish Mark Twain,” provided a window into the world of late 19th century Eastern European Jews and led a life as compelling as those of his fictional characters.
Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place, just N of Battery Park
At 7:00pm / $15
(646) 437-4202 / mjhnyc.org
Subway: #1 to Rector St.

Master Class with one of the most prominent American concert artists of his generation, Glenn Dicterow, Violin
Glenn Dicterow joined the New York Philharmonic as Concertmaster in 1980 and has since performed as its soloist every year. He made his solo debut in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the L.A. Philharmonic at the age of 11 and went on to win the Young Musicians Foundation Award, the Julia Klumpke Award, and the Bronze Medal in the International Tchaikovsky Competition.
Manhattan School of Music, Greenfield Hall
enter at the northwest corner of Broadway and West 122nd St.
At 4:00 pm / FREE, no tickets required.

Painters on Painting
Acclaimed painters and National Academicians David Diao,
Julie Heffernan, Carolee Schneemann, and Alexi Worth will share insights on their favorite paintings and the artists who created them.
National Academy Museum, 1083 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street)
At 6:30pm  / $15
212.369.4880 / nationalacademy.org

Clarinet Works by Bartók, Martinů, and Others
As winner of the 2013 Leo Ruiz Memorial Recital Award, Hungarian clarinetist and Juilliard alum Balazs Rumy performs a program of 20th-century East European music inspired by folklore and folk songs. Joined by pianist Deborah Lee, Rumy performs works by Bartók, Filas, Orbán, Weiner, Martinů, Lutoslawski, and Kókai.
Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, 881 Seventh Ave.@ W. 57th St.
At 8:00 pm/FREE, tickets available one hour prior to the concert at the Box Office.
1-212-247-7800

Niels Lan Doky Trio
“Scandinavian Standards” is the assertive new album by the Danish pianist Niels Lan Doky, whose name recognition in the United States hardly reflects his standing abroad. But one measure of his regard among musicians, even here, is the personnel joining him for a one-nighter next week: the eminent bassist Gary Peacock and the ingenious drummer Jeff (Tain) Watts.” (Chinen – NYT)
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th St. and Broadway,
At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m./$30 cover, with a $10 minimum
258-9595, jalc.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 11/11 and 11/09.