Today’s “Fab 5” / Selected NYCity Events – SUNDAY, DEC. 01, 2013

Concert: Organ Works by Bach and Dupré
Bach Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544
Bach Chorale Prelude on ‘Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme’, BWV 645
Hugo Distler Organ Partita on ‘Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland’, Op. 8, no. 1
Marcel Dupré Prelude and Fugue in B major, Op. 7, no. 1
With organist DAVID BALL.
St. Thomas Church, 1 W. 53rd St. @ Fifth Ave.
try this after a visit to MoMA, which is just down the block
At 5:15PM / FREE
1-212-757-7013 x303

Messiah…Refreshed! at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center
The third annual tradition continues at Lincoln Center with the Thomas Beecham/Eugene Goossens’ 1959 Re-Orchestration for Full Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan Griffith, DCINY Artistic Director and Principal Conductor
Handel: Messiah, Lincoln Center Premiere of Eugene Goossens’ expanded orchestration
Laura Strickling, Soprano
Teresa Buchholz, Mezzo-Soprano
John Pickle, Tenor
Christopher Job, Bass-Baritone
Featuring Distinguished Concerts Orchestra International and Distinguished Concert Singers International
“A Radical Rescoring!” – The New York Times
Avery Fisher Hall, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza
at 2:00pm / $20-$100

Fizz & Chips tasting event.
Champagne and potato chips! Sounds like a stroke of genius.
“Champagnes and sparking wines are a decidedly highbrow indulgence, so there’s something intriguing about the thought of pairing delicious bubbly with the lowly potato chip. “The crisp acidity of sparkling wine cuts right through the oiliness of the chips while the wine’s lush toastiness and fruit tones pair beautifully with the salty crisps,” according to the Astor Center, who are putting that theory to the test on Sunday at their Fizz & Chips tasting event.

They’re pairing 16 fizzies with a wide range of potato chips—even salt and vinegar! If you’d like a more in-depth look at sparking wines, try on one of their champagne/alternative seminars, which include admission to the walk around tasting.” (Gothamist)

Freddy Cole Holiday Celebration*
“The singer and pianist Freddy Cole exudes a gallant but unfussy brand of cool. He is singing Christmas songs in this weekend engagement, and as usual, his maturity will most likely manifest itself as understatement.” (Chinen-NYT)
Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, Greenwich Village, (212)
At 8 and 10:30 p.m./ $35 cover at tables, $20 at the bar, with a $5 minimum.
BLUE NOTE has a good sound system, making those seats at the bar a good deal.
475-8592, bluenote.net

Wycliffe Gordon & Friends: ‘The Music of Duke, Dizzy, & the Dorseys’
“Let’s face it: as a holiday, Thanksgiving is the neglected middle child and weak sister of its much more virile siblings, Halloween and Christmas. Yet there’s one musician who can transform this underperforming holiday—as well as the weekend that follows—into a joyful celebration to compete with its alpha male brothers. Trombonist, vocalist and raconteur (who also pleases crowds with cornet and tuba), Wycliffe Gordon is a one-man show unto himself, and when he surrounds himself with an outstanding band, as he almost invariably does, the results are greater still.

A virtuosic brassman with a huge capacity for musical history, Mr. Gordon would seem to be going through the great years of jazz alphabetically, with a show that encompasses Duke (Ellington), Dizzy (Gillespie) and the Dorseys (Jimmy Dorsey and one of Mr. Gordon’s trombonist role models, Tommy Dorsey). This is Mr. Gordon’s second year playing Dizzy’s over this postholiday weekend, and if he’s going to keep up the tradition, music lovers are going to be eagerly awaiting Thanksgiving each year in the same way that kids look forward to Christmas.” (WSJ)
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, Jazz at Lincoln Center, 60th St. and Broadway,
At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m./ $40 and $45 cover, with a $10 minimum;
(212) 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 11/29 and 11/27.