June 1, 2006

December 2009 calendar of events for New York City

Wednesday, December 2
Tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center (on display through Jan. 7)
Phish at Madison Square Garden (through Dec. 4)
Patrice Chéreau’s production of Janácek’s “From the House of the Dead” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Christine Ebersole and Billy Stritch at Jim Caruso’s “Cast Party” at Birdland (through Dec. 5)
New-York Historical Society panel discussion on Roosevelt’s Advisors at 6:30 p.m.
Robin Williams: Weapons of Self-Destruction at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Too Marvelous for Words: The Music of Johnny Mercer at the Paley Center for Media at 6:30 p.m.
Howie Mandel at 7:30 p.m. at 92Y
A Concert To End Polio with Itzhak Perlman and the NY Philharmonic at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, December 3
New York Philharmonic: Salonen, Ravel & Debussy’s La Mer at Avery Fisher Hall
Chanticleer Christmas in the Met Museum’s Medieval Sculpture Hall at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.
New Production Gala for “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” at 8 p.m.
They Might be Giants performance at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 6 p.m.
Zara Lawler, flute plays Trinity Church’s free Concerts at One from 1 to 2 p.m.
NY Philharmonic: Salonen, Ravel & Debussy’s “La Mer” at 7:30 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Ladies’ Mile: The Carriage Trade at 10 a.m.
NY Philharmonic open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.: Salonen, Ravel & Debussy’s La Mer
Robin Williams: Weapons of Self-Destruction at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
Mannheim Steamroller at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
Jim Cramer: Wall Street Confidential at 8 p.m. at 92Y

Friday, December 4
New York Philharmonic: Salonen, Ravel & Debussy’s La Mer at Avery Fisher Hall
“Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
“Throne of Blood” (“Macbeth” set in medieval Japan) screens as part of the Classic Samurai Cinema: Three by Kurosawa series at the Met Museum at 6 p.m.
Big Onion walking tour: Revolutionary New York at 11 a.m.
Art After Dark at the Guggenheim from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion live at Town Hall at 8 p.m.
NY Philharmonic: Salonen, Ravel & Debussy’s “La Mer” at 11 a.m.
29th Annual John Lennon Tribute at Symphony Space at 7:30 p.m.
First Fridays at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum with Bronx Seaside Trolley, Holiday Candlelight Tour Preview and music by the Metropolitones

Saturday, December 5
New York Philharmonic: Salonen, Ravel & Debussy’s La Mer at Avery Fisher Hall
St. Nicholsas Day at the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum from noon to 4 p.m.
Adults-ony candlelight tours at the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum (reservations required)
Diaghilev’s World lecture at the Met Museum with art historian Marian Burleigh-Motley at 6 p.m.
New-York Historical Society’s Heroes of Liberty Walking Tour at 11 a.m.
Big Apple Classic at Madison Square Garden at 4 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: The Public Schools of C. B. J. Snyder: Stuyvesant to Gramercy Squares at 11 a.m.
Free lecture by Bronx Borough Historian Lloyd Ultan on Henry Hudson – The Man at the City Island Branch of the NY Public Library at 2 p.m.
Patrice Chéreau’s production of Janácek’s “From the House of the Dead” at the Met Opera at 1 p.m.
“Il Trittico” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Greater Astoria Historical Society hosts a free screening of “It Happened on 5th Avenue” at 1 p.m.
Breakfast with Santa at The Rink at Rockefeller Center
Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion live at Town Hall at 5:45 p.m.
Hot Tuna at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m.
House of Kids: The Sippy Cups at The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
Mikulas – Children’s Holiday Event at the Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden at 3 p.m.
Annual Winter Family Day at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
NY Philharmonic: Salonen, Ravel & Debussy’s “La Mer” at 8 p.m.

Sunday, December 6
92Y Excursion: Grand Central Terminal at 11 a.m.
Free admission at Historic Richmond Town for the Tree Lighting
Adults-ony candlelight tours at the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum (reservations required)
Lionheart, Il Laudario di Cortona: Christmas in Medieval Italy concert at The Cloisters at 1 and 3 p.m.
NY Rangers home game vs. Red Wings
NY Giants home game vs. Dallas
NY Knicks vs NJ Nets at Madison Square Garden at noon
Lecture on the 1875 Pesach Rubenstein Murder Trial at the Museum at Eldridge Street at 11 a.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Washington Irving’s New York (and the Origins of the Modern Christmas) at 2 p.m.
Breakfast with Santa at The Rink at Rockefeller Center

Monday, December 7
Explorers Club’s 2nd Ocean Forum, Panel and Discussion on State of the Oceans hosted by Dr. Susan Shaw, Dr. Sylvia Earle, Dr. Nancy Knowlton, Dr. David Gallo, Dr. David Guggenheim and Mr. Jim Fowler
Greater Astoria Historical Society hosts History of Astoria Park & Holiday Party at 7 p.m.
“Les Contes d’Hoffmann ” at the Met Opera
The Two T’s: Theater and Television panel at the Paley Center for Media with Elaine Stritch, Frances Sternhagen, Tyne Daly, Michael Cristofer and Tom Fontana
Gypsy of the Year Competition at Broadway’s PalaceTheatre at 4:30 p.m.
Gavin Creel and Robbie Roth at Symphony Space
Classic Stage Company’s Open Rehearsal Series: Much Ado with Mandy Patinkin

Tuesday, December 8
New York Philharmonic: Salonen, Ravel & Debussy’s La Mer at Avery Fisher Hall
New-York Historical Society panel discussion on William F. Buckley, Jr.: Right Time, Right Place
Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden at 7 p.m.
Rachael Ray book event at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 6 p.m.
“Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Global Kitchen: The Silk Road through Spices lecture at the American Museum of Natural History
Gypsy of the Year Competition at Broadway’s PalaceTheatre at 2 p.m.
NY Philharmonic: Salonen, Ravel & Debussy’s “La Mer” at 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, December 9
SEC vs. Big East at Madison Square Garden
“Il Trittico” at the Met Opera at 8 p.m.
Amy Asch, editor of The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II will introduce the 6:20 p.m. screening of “Show Boat” at Film Forum
Moscow Male Jewish Choir at Town Hall at 8 p.m.

Thursday, December 10
Opening night on Broadway for David Mamet’s “Race” (open-ended run)
Opening night on Broadway for “Broadway Bound”
New York Philharmonic: Dohnányi, Dicterow, Phelps & Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante at Avery Fisher Hall
Malcolm Gladwell book event at Barnes & Noble Union Square at 7 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Ladies’ Mile: Populist Places at 10 a.m.
“Elektra” at the Met Opera
NY Philharmonic open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.: Dohnányi, Dicterow, Phelps & Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante
Honorees Look at the Kennedy Center Honors at 6:30 p.m. at the Paley Center for Media with Jacques d’Amboise, Arthur Mitchell and George Stevens, Jr.
Lecture Comic Books after WWII at 7 p.m. at 92Y Tribeca
A Special Celebration of the Life of Senator Edward M. Kennedy with Vicki Reggie Kennedy and Ted Kennedy Jr. at 8 p.m. at 92Y

Friday, December 11
New York Philharmonic: Dohnányi, Dicterow, Phelps & Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante at Avery Fisher Hall
Visions of the Cosmos opens at the Rubin Museum of Art (through May 10)
92Y Food Outing: Extreme Chocolate Walking Tour at 1 p.m.
Kids candlelight tour of the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum (reservations required)
Z100’s Jingle Ball 2009 at Madison Square Garden at 7:30 p.m.
An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe and His Cottage at the National Arts Club at 6 p.m.
“Les Contes d’Hoffmann ” at the Met Opera
Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion live at Town Hall at 8 p.m.

Saturday, December 12
“Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Met Opera at 8:30 p.m.
“Il Trittico” at the Met Opera at 12:30 p.m.
Opera in the historic church at 2 p.m. with the Bronx Opera Company at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concert for families with children, 6 to 12 years of age: Claude Debussy La Mer at Avery Fisher Hall
New York Philharmonic: Dohnányi, Dicterow, Phelps & Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante at Avery Fisher Hall
All-ages Candlelight Tours of Historic Richmond Town (pre-paid reservation required)
Adults-ony candlelight tours at the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum (reservations required)
NY Rangers home game vs. Sabres
Dickens of a Christmas at the Staten Island Zoo
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Midtown: Beyond Mies at 11 a.m.
Bronx walking tour at 10 a.m.: An Urban Archaeology Trek of the Original Bronx River Parkway
Breakfast with Santa at The Rink at Rockefeller Center
Santa Cruise on Circle Line Sightseeing at 11 a.m.
Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion live at Town Hall at 5:45 p.m.
Music for St. Nicholas at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum at 1 and 3 p.m.
Holiday Candlelight Tours at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum from 6 to 8 p.m.

Sunday, December 13
Opening night on Broadway for “A Little Night Music” with with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury (open-ended run)
Tuba Christmas at Rockefeller Center at 3:30 p.m.
Gabriel Orozco exhibition opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through March 1)
New York Philharmonic: Holiday Brass at Avery Fisher Hall at 3 p.m.
Augustin Hadelich, Rohan De Silva concert at The Frick Collection at 5 p.m.
They Might Be Giants play New York Hall of Science at 1 and 3:15 p.m.
Adults-ony candlelight tours at the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum (reservations required)
NY Giants home game vs. Philadelphia
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Jewish Harlem at 11 a.m.
Kate Baldwin: “Let’s See What Happens” at 8:30 p.m. at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency
Breakfast with Santa at The Rink at Rockefeller Center
Canadian Brass Christmas Concert at Town Hall at 3 p.m.
Gwar at The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza
Thomas Friedman in Conversation with Dov Seidman at 8 p.m. at 92Y
Music for St. Nicholas at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum at 1 and 3 p.m.

Monday, December 14
Project Shaw reading of Why She Would Not (Shaw’s unfinished last play!)
NY Rangers home game vs. Thrashers
“Hansel and Gretel” at the Met Opera
Liv Ullmann Takes On A Streetcar Named Desire at the Paley Center for Media at 6:30 p.m. with Liv Ullmann, Kirk Simon and Karen Goodman
National Scrabble champion Joe Edley at 92Y at 7 p.m.
Classic Stage Company’s Open Rehearsal Series: Much Ado with Mandy Patinkin

Tuesday, December 15
Bill of Rights Program at 10 a.m., marking the 217th anniversary of the adoption of the Bill of Rights, at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
New York Philharmonic: Handel’s Messiah at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
“Elektra ” at the Met Opera
NY Philharmonic open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.: Handel’s Messiah
Il Divo at the Beacon Theatre at 8 p.m. (through Dec. 17)
Lecture: Weeksville: The Second Largest Independent African-American Community in Pre-Civil War America at the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen at 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, December 16
New York Philharmonic: Handel’s Messiah at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
NY Rangers home game vs. Islanders
In Memory of concert with Yale Strom at the Museum at Eldridge Street at 7 p.m.
“Les Contes d’Hoffmann ” at the Met Opera
Maurice Bourgue & Friends at 8 p.m. at 92Y

Thursday, December 17
New York Philharmonic: Handel’s Messiah at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Paul Winter’s 30th Annual Winter Solstice Celebration at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine at 8 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: On the Avenue at 10 a.m.
“Hansel and Gretel” at the Met Opera
Morley Safer with Budd Mishkin at 8:15 p.m. at 92Y

Friday, December 18
New York Philharmonic: Handel’s Messiah at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Kids candlelight tour of the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum (reservations required)
Paul Winter’s 30th Annual Winter Solstice Celebration at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine at 8 p.m.
“Elektra ” at the Met Opera
Breakfast with Santa at The Rink at Rockefeller Center (daily through Dec. 24)
Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion live at Town Hall at 8 p.m.

Saturday, December 19
New York Philharmonic: Handel’s Messiah at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Holiday Organ Concert on the historic 1833 pipe organ at 2 p.m. at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
All-ages Candlelight Tours of Historic Richmond Town (pre-paid reservation required)
Adults-ony candlelight tours at the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum (reservations required)
Paul Winter’s 30th Annual Winter Solstice Celebration at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine at 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Breakfast with the Beasts- Holiday Breakfast at the Staten Island Zoo
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Keeping Off the Streets: East Side at 10 a.m.
“Les Contes d’Hoffmann ” at the Met Opera
“Hansel and Gretel” at the Met Opera
Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion live at Town Hall at 5:45 p.m.
at 11 p.m. at 92Y Tribeca

Sunday, December 20
New Amsterdam Market monthly Public Market on South Street
92Y Excursion: Brooklyn Bus Tours, Holiday Lights and Cannoli Tour at 6 p.m.
NY Jets home game vs. Atlanta
New York City Gay Men’s Chorus at Town Hall at 3 and 8 p.m.
Basically Brandenburg with the Symphony Space All-Stars at Symphony Space at 7 p.m.
Brooklyn Bus Tours Holiday Lights and Cannoli Tour at 6 p.m.
Richard C. Holbrooke, Kati Marton and Moderator Jim Hoge at 7:30 p.m. at 92Y

Monday, December 21
Big Onion walking tour: Winter Solstice Tour of Central Park at 1 p.m.
True Colors Cabaret at at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8 and 10:30 p.m.
“Hansel and Gretel” at the Met Opera

Tuesday, December 22
“Elektra ” at the Met Opera
Family Holiday Programs at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx

Wednesday, December 23
“Les Contes d’Hoffmann ” at the Met Opera
Family Holiday Programs at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
NY Rangers home game vs. Panthers

Thursday, December 24
“Hansel and Gretel” at the Met Opera
Big Onion walking tour: Christmas Stroll in Greenwich Village at 1 p.m.
Municipal Art Society walking tour: New York’s Rue de la Paix: West 57th Street at 10 a.m.

Friday, December 25
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Rockefeller Center: Art Deco Masterwork at 10 a.m.
Klez for Kids concert at the Museum at Eldridge Street at 11 a.m.
Big Onion walking tour: 19th Annual Christmas Day Jewish East Side Tour at at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Places that were open on Christmas Day in 2008
Michael Feinstein & David Hyde Pierce Holiday Show at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency at 8 p.m.
Central Park carousel open from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Sky Rink at Chelsea Piers open for indoor ice skating - noon to 6:50 p.m.

Saturday, December 26
“Les Contes d’Hoffmann ” at the Met Opera
“Elektra ” at the Met Opera
Big Onion walking tour: Brooklyn Bridge & Heights at 1 p.m.
Family Holiday Programs at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
NY Rangers home game vs. Islanders
The Muppets Christmas Carol at Symphony Space at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Sunday, December 27
Big Onion walking tour: The Multi-Ethnic Eating Tour at 1 p.m.
NY Giants home game vs. Carolina
Kwanzaa Celebration at the American Museum of Natural History
Gogol Bordello plays Webster Hall (through Dec. 29)

Monday, December 28
Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge” with Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson begins previews on Broadway with (Jan 24 opening night; through April 4)
“Hansel and Gretel” at the Met Opera

Tuesday, December 29
New York Philharmonic: Andsnes Performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 at Avery Fisher Hall
Family Holiday Programs at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
“Elektra ” at the Met Opera
NY Philharmonic open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.: Andsnes Performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23

Wednesday, December 30
New York Philharmonic: Andsnes Performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
“Les Contes d’Hoffmann ” at the Met Opera
“Hansel and Gretel” at the Met Opera
Family Holiday Programs at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Doll and Teddy Bear Party at 1:30 p.m. at Historic Richmond Town on Staten Island
NY Rangers home game vs. Flyers
Gov’t Mule at the Beacon Theatre at 7 :30 p.m.

Thursday, December 31
Big Onion walking tour: Historic Lower Manhattan - New York in a New Year at 1 p.m.
New Year’s Eve in Times Square
New York Philharmonic: New Year’s Eve: Hampson, Gershwin, Copland & Broadway at Avery Fisher Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Emerald Nuts Midnight Run in Central Park
Family Holiday Programs at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
NY Waterways’ New Year’s Harbor Cruises
Michael Feinstein & Barbara Cook New Years Eve 2009 shows at 6 and 9 p.m.
New Year’s Eve Gala with “Carmen” at the Met Opera at 6:30 p.m.
New Year’s Eve at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
The Rink at Rockefeller Center closes early, at 9 p.m.
Gov’t Mule at the Beacon Theatre at 9 p.m.
CircleLine42 cruise boards at 9 p.m.
Fischerspooner at The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza at 10 p.m.
New Year’s Eve Ball at Webster Hall
Gaelic Storm at Gramercy Theatre at 10 p.m.
NYGASP Champagne Gala Gilbert & Sullivan Favorites at Symphony Space at 8 p.m.
100th Anniversary Celebration at the Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden

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