Top 5 Picks for the Week
MUSIC
A Gilded Age Salon: Music from Paris to New York
Sylvan Winds, a five-piece chamber music outfit, performs works by six composers, many with roots in Paris, including Camille Saint-Saëns, who acted as a church organist throughout the city. The ensemble also performs a suite by Théodore Dubois, a director of the Paris Conservatory from 1896-1905, who, like Saint-Saëns, was a church organist.
A Gilded Age Salon: Music from Paris to New York
Thursday, Nov. 12
The Salmagundi Club
47 Fifth Ave., at E. 12th Street
7:30 p.m.
Tickets $40
For tickets and more information, call 212-222-3569 or email sylvanwinds@att.net
“Missa in Angustiis” and “Requiem Mass in D Minor, K. 626”
The Orchestra of St. Luke’s, along with the Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys perform two powerful works at Saint Thomas Church. Franz Joseph Haydn’s “Missa in Angustiis,” which he composed in the summer of 1798, possesses moments of surprising joy. The piece is paired with Mozart’s “Requiem Mass in D Minor.”
“Missa in Angustiis” and “Requiem Mass in D Minor, K. 626”
Thursday, Nov. 12
Saint Thomas Church
One W. 53rd St., near Fifth Avenue
7:30 p.m.
Tickets $40-$75
For more information, call 212-664-9360 or visit saintthomaschurch.org
THEATER
“Brigadoon”
Long-running Upper East Side community theater group St. Jean’s Players begins its new season with musical “Brigadoon,” in which two American travelers get lost in the woods in Scotland and find themselves in an untouched magical town. Featuring a cast of 35 actors, Alan Jay Lerner’s and Frederick Loewe’s 1947 play includes the tunes “Almost Like Being in Love” and “Heather on the Hill.”
“Brigadoon”
Nov. 6-8, Nov. 13-15 and Nov. 20-22
St. Jean’s Auditorium
167 E. 75th St., between Lexington and Third Avenues
Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 3 p.m.
Tickets $25
For tickets, call 212-868-4444 or visit smarttix.com; remaining tickets available at the door
MUSEUMS
“Unorthodox”
Over 200 pieces by 55 artists from more than 20 countries make up the Jewish Museum’s new exhibition “Unorthodox”. Switzerland’s Xanti Schawinksy’s “Faces of War” series considers the devastation of World War II and Dineo Sheshee Bopape explores apartheid, while Margaret Harrison utilizes pop culture figures like Captain America to discuss gender.
“Unorthodox”
Nov. 6-March 27
The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Ave., at 92nd Street
Museum hours: Sunday-Tuesday and Saturday, 11 a.m.-5:45 p.m.; Thursday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Admission $15
For more information, visit thejewishmuseum.org or call 212-423-3200
FILM
Asbury Shorts
Asbury Shorts, a short film event now in its 34th year, brings previous favorites to the screen as well as new films, including “Wire Cutters,” Jack Anderson’s animated short about two robots, and “The Girl and the Gondola” from Abbe Robinson, about a young girl who wants to follow her father’s path and become a gondolier.
Asbury Shorts
Friday, Nov. 6
NYIT Auditorium on Broadway
1871 Broadway, between W. 61st and W. 62nd Streets
7:30 p.m.
Tickets $15
To purchase tickets, visit www.asburyshortsnyc.brownpapertickets.com or visit asburyshortsnyc.com for more information