Editor's Picks

10:00am

Park Walk: Riverside Park-to-Little Red Lighthouse Walk

Flat walk along Hudson River through Riverside Park. Brisk pace, 5-6 miles. Bring lunch, water. Sturdy footgear. Lunch at Riverbank State Park. Steady rain may cancel.

1:30pm

Concert: New York Opera Forum performs Donizetti's Anna Bolena

A concert version under the direction of Richard Nechamkin.

3:00pm
to 7:00pm

Workshop: Meditate NYC

For 2500 years, Buddhism has taught meditation as a means of cultivating tranquility, kindness, and wisdom. Research confirms meditation's positive effects on body and mind. Meditate NYC begins with an afternoon of meditation instruction by speakers from a great variety of traditions.

You can come and go whenever you like.

7:00pm

Concert: All-VIVALDI evening! With a soprano, a flute, a violin, a dynamic chamber orchestra

Ensemble du Monde, a dynamic chamber orchestra, presents an All-Vivaldi concert featuring virtuoso Italian flutist Antonio Amenduni, the beautiful voice of mezzo-soprano Lara Nie and brilliant German/Japanese violinist Koh Gabriel Kameda.

All-VIVALDI Program:
Concerto grosso in G Minor, RV 578
Cantata: Qual Per Ignoto, RV 677
Vedro con mio diletto (Il Giustino) RV 717
Concerto for Two Flutes in C Major RV 533
with special guest Sarah Rulli, flute
Flute Concerto in D Major, RV 428 “Il Cardellino”
Le Quattro Staggioni (The Four Seasons)

8:00am
to 9:00am

Concert: 1000 high school musicians perform patriotic anthems

1000 high school musicians from across the country , Jazz Ambassadors of the U.S. Army Field Band, The Stand Up America "ONE WORLD" Goodwill Tour Children's Chorus perform a medley of patriotic anthems in Prelude to 90th NYC Veterans Day Parade.

It's a first-of-its-kind salute to the millions of men and women who have served America past and present as members of the various military branches.

12:30pm
to 1:30pm

Concert: Alisa Weilerstein, cello, performs Bach suites

Program:
Bach, Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007

Weilerstein is internationally renowned as one of the premiere soloists and chamber musicians of her generation. Weilerstein has appeared with many ensembles, among them the orchestras of Baltimore, Cleveland, Minnesota, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco, as well as the New York Philharmonic and National Symphony Orchestra. An ECHO “Rising Star” and alumna of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two program, she has performed as recitalist and chamber musician at the world’s top concert halls and festivals. Her praised debut recording was released on EMI classics, and she was the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant.

6:00pm
to 8:00pm

Film: Oscar-winning Danish Film: Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast (1987)

Based on a story by Isak Dinesen, the film tells the story of a famous French chef who flees revolutionary bloodshed and finds refuge in an isolated and austere Danish village with two aging sisters who are devoted to the memory of their strict father, the town’s pastor. Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. 102 min. In Danish with English subtitles.

6:30pm

Discussion: Crude World: The Politics of Oil

The environmental devastation wrought by the world’s reliance on petroleum can no longer be denied, but the insidious cultural effects of oil extraction, production, and exportation still receive scant attention. Join Peter Maass, contributing editor at The New York Times Magazine and the author of the recently published Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil, and George Caffentzis, Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine, as they discuss big oil’s cultural and political violence.

12:30pm
to 1:30pm

Concert: Alisa Weilerstein, cello, performs Bach suites

Program:
Bach, Suite No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1008

Weilerstein is internationally renowned as one of the premiere soloists and chamber musicians of her generation. Weilerstein has appeared with many ensembles, among them the orchestras of Baltimore, Cleveland, Minnesota, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco, as well as the New York Philharmonic and National Symphony Orchestra. An ECHO “Rising Star” and alumna of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two program, she has performed as recitalist and chamber musician at the world’s top concert halls and festivals. Her praised debut recording was released on EMI classics, and she was the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant.

5:00pm
to 8:00pm

Opening Reception: 1989: The End of History or the Beginning of the Future?

Video Art Comments on a Paradigm Shift: 14 video films from international artists revolving around various aspects of repression and revolution, politics of memory, the fall of the Iron Curtain and the hopes and delusions connected to the alleged end of history.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria, Mr. Michael Spindelegger, will be in attendance.

8:00pm

Dance Performance: 4 different takes on contemporary dance

Cornfield Dance, Catherine Young, You Are Free Dance Company, and Erin Cairns.

12:30pm
to 1:30pm

Concert: Alisa Weilerstein, cello, performs Bach suites

Program:
Bach, Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009

Weilerstein is internationally renowned as one of the premiere soloists and chamber musicians of her generation. Weilerstein has appeared with many ensembles, among them the orchestras of Baltimore, Cleveland, Minnesota, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco, as well as the New York Philharmonic and National Symphony Orchestra. An ECHO “Rising Star” and alumna of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two program, she has performed as recitalist and chamber musician at the world’s top concert halls and festivals. Her praised debut recording was released on EMI classics, and she was the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant.

6:30pm

Lecture: Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences

Sarah Schulman, playwright and novelist, will deliver the eighteenth annual David R. Kessler Lecture in LGBTQ Studies. The Kessler Lecture and Award honors a scholar, artist, or activist who has, over a number of years, produced a substantive body of work that has had a significant influence on the field of LGBTQ Studies. Her awards include a Guggenheim (playwriting), Fullbright (Judaic Studies), Revson Fellowship for the Future of New York City, two American Library Association Book Awards (fiction and nonfiction), and a Stonewall Award for Contributions Improving the Lives of Lesbians and Gays in the United States.

12:30pm

Dance Performance: “60x60 Dance”: 60 One-Minute Dance Works

Contemporary dance meets today's electronic music scene in 60x60 Dance – a one-hour extravaganza featuring 60 one-minute new pieces created by a different composer-choreographer duo. Eclectic by nature, 60x60 Dance offers an unmatched diversity of styles, making for a fast-speed, exhilarating one-of-a-kind performance that never ceases to surprise.

4:30pm

Screening: Swedish Silent Documentary: Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan: Witchcraft through the Ages (1922)

With live musical accompaniment by the Matti Bye Ensemble. Häxan is arguably the most original and impressive of all Swedish silent films, and today is still a technically and cinematographically astonishing achievement. An eccentric mixture of didactic lecture and spectacular dramatization, the film recounts popular beliefs in the devil and superstition throughout the ages—with director Christensen himself playing Lucifer—and through striking imagery depicts the hypocrisy, sexual repression, and witch hunts of medieval times. Christensen was Danish, as was most of the cast and crew, but the film was entirely financed by the Swedish production company Svensk Filmindustri, which gave Christensen unprecedented artistic freedom and an enormous budget. Tinted print restored by The Swedish Film Institute.
104 min. With Swedish and English intertitles. Introduced by Jon Wengström.

7:00pm

Dance Performance: “60x60 Dance”: 60 One-Minute Dance Works

Contemporary dance meets today's electronic music scene in 60x60 Dance – a one-hour extravaganza featuring 60 one-minute new pieces created by a different composer-choreographer duo. Eclectic by nature, 60x60 Dance offers an unmatched diversity of styles, making for a fast-speed, exhilarating one-of-a-kind performance that never ceases to surprise.

9:30pm

Concert: Jeff Newell’s New-Trad Octet, Funk/Brass

Fun is the only way to describe the sound of this throwback brass ensemble, infusing the funky sound of New Orleans’ “second line” street music with deliciously modern harmonies and contemporary flair.