Carnegie Hall Update

$10 student tickets for these events are available now at the Box Office.

THURS, NOV 29 at 8 PM Sweet Honey In The Rock

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

The renowned a cappella group preserves and celebrates African American culture and singing traditions, addressing the most pressing contemporary issues with electrifying musical drive. Buy Now Learn More

FRI, NOV 30 at 8 PM The Philadelphia Orchestra; Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

SCHUMANN Das Paradies und die Peri

In this visionary work, Robert Schumann aimed to forge a new path in dramatic music, blending opera and oratorio, German Romanticism, and Eastern myth. Based on a Persian tale about the child of a fallen angel who seeks entrance into heaven, the rarely performed Das Paradies und die Peri is a masterpiece rich in melody and drama.Balcony tickets only.

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SUN, DEC 2 at 2 PM -- Kirov Orchestra; Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV The Snow Maiden (Concert Performance)

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BAMcafe - Friday Nights

Every Friday and Saturday night, BAMcafé Live (Brooklyn Academy of Music) showcases renowned and emerging artists, featuring some of the best jazz, R&B, world beat, pop, and experimental music from Brooklyn and beyond. Free.

http://bam.org/events/bamcafelive.aspx

Friday, Nov 30: Olu at 9pm
Having traveled the world as a former member of the incomparable Boys Choir of Harlem, R&B wizard and multi–instrumentalist Olu writes grooves thickened by cosmopolitan experience.

Phone: 718.636.4100
Address: Peter Jay Sharp Building / 30 Lafayette Avenue / Brooklyn, NY 11217

Free Music Fridays at the Folk Art Museum

The American Folk Art Museum presents Free Music Fridays.

Each Friday, from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, the museum trustees and staff invite the public to explore our galleries free of charge, have a drink in the cafe, and enjoy live music in the stunning atrium. Food and drink by Canard, Inc.

11/16 will feature Soup du Jour, a folk trio from California. Dianna, Jordan and Amy started to play music together in the Sierra Nevada mountains while working at a summer camp, and developed a repertoire including tunes by Nickel Creek, Grateful Dead, John Prine, Radiohead and Guster.

http://www.folkartmuseum.org/default.asp?id=1214
American Folk Art Museum
45 West 53rd Street
T 212. 265. 1040

SO PERCUSSION with guest pianist LISA MOORE
Tuesday, November 20; 7 pm
Winter Garden

So Percussion, the “astonishing and entrancing" (Billboard) New York City-based quartet of twenty-something percussionists has revolutionized drumming by mastering the canon of modern music, commissioning works by contemporary composers, and incorporating emerging technologies into their sound. The ensemble presents the World premiere of Martin Bresnick’s new composition with special guest pianist Lisa Moore; the United States premiere of Arvo Pärt's Fratres for Percussion; and the New York premiere of a new acoustic work by computer music pioneer Paul Lansky.

Tasting Festival - 11/16

FOOD & TASTING EVENT
Brookfield Properties presents
AUTUMN'S PALATE: A TASTING FESTIVAL
Friday, November 16
11am-2:30 pm
Winter Garden at the World Financial Center downtown

From lobster ravioli and sushi to silky gelato and mini-burgers, the World Financial Center’s restaurants are prepared to please the most discriminating palates with sample signature menu items for $1-5.

Piano Concert at St. Paul's 11/26

George Francois, piano
Monday, November 26, 2007
Time: 1:00PM - 2:00PM
Location: St. Paul's Chapel
Works by Bach, Debussy, Prokofiev and Shulz-Evler.

Juilliard Artists at Maiden Lane - 11/20

JUILLIARD ARTISTS AT 180 MAIDEN LANE
G-Sharp Duo
Yelena Grinberg, Piano
Emilie-Anne Gendron, Violin
MESSIAEN Thème et variations
RAVEL Sonata in G Major for Violin and Piano
FRANCK Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano, M. 8

Free hour-long lunchtime concerts by Juilliard artists at 180 Maiden Lane.
All concerts are free and no tickets are required.

180 Maiden Lane (formerly known as the Continental Center), located just south of South Street Seaport. Take the 2 or 3 train to Wall Street. For more information, please call 212-769-7406.

Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at 12:30 PM
Free; no tickets required.

An Evening of Saxophone Music - 11/16

An evening of Saxaphone Music --
Friday, November 16 at 8pm. Morse Hall
http://www.juilliard.edu/asp/calendar/event1.php?intEvID=-1999908856

Music in Midtown 11/15

Music in Midtown
Thursday 11/15/2007
1:00 PM— 2:00 PM
CUNY - 365 Fifth Avenue
Elebash Recital Hall

A Recital for Violin and Piano Neil Weintrob,* violin, with Norman Carey,* piano

Neil Weintrob is an internationally acclaimed soloist and chamber musician. Of his solo debut at 16 with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote: "Weintrob showed phenomenal talent and technique to burn...." As a cofounder of the American Piano Trio, in residence at Ball State University, he toured internationally and recorded for the Musical Heritage Society label. Norman Carey's debut recital was hailed by John Rockwell in The New York Times as "really delightful and very satisfying."

Gates of Paradise at the Met

Gates of Paradise: www.metmuseum.org
After more than 25 years, the conservation of Lorenzo Ghiberti’s doors for the Baptistery in Florence—called the Gates of Paradise—now in the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, is nearing completion. This exhibition provides the American public with an unprecedented opportunity to see three of the doors' famous narrative reliefs, with their masterful retelling of Old Testament subjects, as well as four figural sections from their opulent surrounding frames, before they are permanently installed in the museum. The panels and elements from the doorframe—two of its supremely elegant figures of prophets and finely modeled heads set in roundels—represent the sculptor’s intense involvement in this project, a seminal monument of the Italian Renaissance, during the 27 years (1425–52) of its creation.

Downtown for Dinner 2007

It's time once again for Downtown for Dinner, a chance for you to eat (relatively) affordable meals in some of the the city's best restaurants. Included on the list are Battery Gardens, Delmonico’s Steakhouse, Fraunces Tavern Restaurant, MarkJoseph Steakhouse, Brasserie Les Halles, The Grill Room, Harry’s Café, and Roy’s New York so make your reservations now as they do fill up.
November 12-18
http://www.downtownny.com/?sid=326

"Mormonism and American Politics"

Princeton is hosting a "Mormonism and American Politics" conference this Friday and Saturday. It is a free event. If you would like more information, please e-mail Prof. Tubbs.

Nov 2: The Annual Taxidermy Olympics

The Annual Taxidermy Olympics

For those of you who like your animals stuffed this is an event for you. Union Hall's Secret Science Club invites you to The Annual Taxidermy Contest. "Calling all science geeks, nature freaks, and other rogue geniuses. You know who you are! Enter your taxidermy to win! Show off your beloved moose head, stuffed albino squirrel, sinuous snake skeletons, jarred sea slugs, and other specimens. Compete for prizes and glory! The contest will be judged by a panel of savage taxidermy enthusiasts, including the American Museum of Natural History's collections manager for mammalogy Darrin Lunde, Robert Marbury , co-director of the Minnesota Association of Rogue Taxidermists and Dorian Devins, WFMU DJ and Secret Science Club co-curator! Don't miss the wild taxidermy lecture by beast master Brian Wiprud, author of Stuffed, Pipsqueaked, and Tailed. Prizes for best stuffed creature, most interesting biological oddity, and more!"

Date: Friday, November 2nd
Time: 8:00pm
Location: Union Hall -- 702 Union St. (at 5th Ave.) in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY.
Cost: Free
Phone: 718.638.4400

Nov 1: Andy Summers (of the Police) book signing

Date: Thursday, November 1st

Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Location: Taschen Store (107 Greene Street)

Cost: Free

Was getting tickets for The Police tour this summer a little out of your price range? Get yourself a little sliver of the pie today and meet with Andy Summers, guitarist of The Police. Recently, I’ll Be Watching You: Inside the Police 1980-83,a book of his tour photography from the early 1980s was published and today he will be signing copies at the Tashen store.