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After Labor Day, collectors stop culling countryside craft, stands and garage sales and focus on New York's packed schedule of antiques shows and auctions. The fall season kicks off with the New York Armory Antiques. One hundred international dealers will display wares ranging from 5,000 year-old Egyptian mummy sculptures to nineteenth-century Continental furniture.
71st Annual Feast of San Gennaro. Thu. 9/11 to 9/21. 11:30 am. Mulberry St..
Still going after the feds pushed out its old organizers last year, the convergence of carnival rides, fries dough and suffocating crowds promises once again to cram its way into one tiny neighborhood.
German-American Steuben Parade. Sat 9/20. noon. Fifth Ave. bet 63rd and 86th Sts.
The mayor is grand marshal of this annual parade, which kicks off German-American friendship week.
New York is Book Country. Sun. 9/ pm. . Fifth Ave. between 48th and 57th Sts: 52nd and 53rd Sts between Madison and Sixth Aves.
Antiquarian Row the bazaar of old and rare books returns to 53rd St.
New York's Financial District
Wall Street is booming, and tourist are flocking to New York in record numbers. Until recently, one apparently had nothing to do with other.
Yet Lower Manhattan is now swarming with camera-carrying tourists. They are making reservations weeks in advance to see the $140 billion gold ingots stacked in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's vault, posing for pictures in front of the big bronze bull on Broadway and lining up weekdays as early as 8 am. to snag one of the 3000 tickets given away to see the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
To meet the rising demand, the Federal Reserve opened a $750.000 visitor's gallery last month. The New York exchange is finishing a $2 million remodeling of its decades old tourist center and has extended its hours so that 700.000 people a year can pass through.
And Heritage Trails New York, a non-profit group that gives walking tours of Lower Manhattan historic sites, added a weekly World of Finance tours this summer and quickly sold out through Labor Day. The tour, on Wednesday mornings has been extended indefinitely. It includes a stop outside Delmonico's which the guide describes as the 19th century birthplace of the power lunch.
Back in the 50s when Rauschenberg made his landmark "combine" painting bed, it didn't took the art world long to wake up and smell the coffee. Now he is getting the ultimate museum tribute a retrospective of his work that takes up both the uptown and the downtown Guggs. This venue holds the lion's share of his vast oeuvre, arranged chronologically.
Horn of Plenty. Mon. 9/22. Jewish heritage Museum. .
Known in 1930s Holland as the Dutch Louis Armstrong, trumpeter Louis Bannet was Jewish - a distinction that limited his wartime music career to a three year gig in the Auschwitz-Birkerneau inmate orchestra. His trumpet literally saved his life and the Holocaust survivor has now donated the instrument to Battery Park City's Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.
With the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island as a backdrop, the new museum occupies a 30.000 square foot hexagonal granite building. Its core exhibit more than 2.000 photographs and 800 artifacts and personal items such as the trumpet, as well as 24 original documentation films.
A Brand New New York Historical Society.
77th St. at Central Park West..
At long last, The New York Historical Society's precious library-long the shuttered victim of budget cuts-has hours to match the Society's museum. The public can visit both the library and the gallery Tuesdays through Sundays.q
"Georgia O'keeffe: A Portrait by Alfred Stieglitz. through 10/5. Metropolitan Museum of Art..
Their relationship was the stuff of legend -and art. For the first time in almost a generation, visitor can see a full set of these lush black and white photos by Stieglitz, which form a composite portrait of the powerful woman he adored.
"Collection in Context: Rockwell Kent by Night". through 9/28. Whitney Museum..
The subject of this latest installment in the Whitney's Collection in Context series is best remembered as an illustrator and printmaker. But Rockwell Kent was also a painter who studied with Robert Henri, guru of the socially conscious Ashcan School and a Jazz Age graphic designer who explored the wilderness of Greenland and Maine. This survey, Kent's first in a major New York museum, includes drawings, prints and paintings made between 1910 and 1941, using Kent's favorite motif, the night sky, it reveals the man's versatility.
Mostly devoted to Kent's prints the show includes his noteworthy suite of illustrations for a 1930 edition of Moby Dick. In many of these, a jet black sky is incised with a huge white whale or a tiny Ahab. The wood engravings in another group are similar iconic. In one, a lone man clings to a mast; in another, he's curled up in a small boat.
Petronio's season , which includes two premieres, should not be missed. ReBourne is set to Sheila Chandra and the Beastie Boys; I Kneel Down Before You,a solo for Petronio, features bittersweet music by Hratchik Nigoghossian and Djivan Kasparian. Last season's Drawn That Way is also on the program.
Riverdance. through 10/12. Radio City Music Hall. .
For the third time this company of 80 Irish singers, dancers and musicians returns to Radio City to perform their singular brand of Gaelic entertainment. Winner of the 1997 Grammy for the Best Musical Show Album, Riverdance is now booked on a 36 city American tour for 1998.
Ballet Folklorico De Mexico. 9/19 - 9/21/ Radio City Music Hall..
Tap Dogs, Union Square Theatre,.
Fresh of a sold out world tour, Australia's industrial tap-dance madmen arrive in New York. Created and choreographed by two-time Olivier Award winner Dein Perry and directed by Migel Trifit.
Forever Tango, through 1/4/98. Walter Kerr Theatre. 8pm. .
Luis Bravo's acclaimed exploration of the passionate world of tango features 14 dancers, one vocalist and an onstage 11 piece orchestra.
New York State Theatre.
The Magic Flute. Sat. 9/20. 1:30 pm.
Tonight's cast includes Elisabeth Comeaux as Pamina, Lorraine Ernest as the Queen of the Night and Mathew Cellis as Tamino.
La Traviata. Sat 9/20. 8 pm.
Macbeth. Sun. 9/21. 1:30 pm.
Metropolitan Opera.
Carmen. Mon. 9/22. 6:30 pm.
The Met has wisely handed Zeffirelli's production over to Denyce Graves, a Carmen who can apparently do no wrong. James Levine conducts the gala season opener, which also features Placido Domingo as Don Jose, Norah Ansellem as Micaela and Gino Quilico as Escamillo.
Manon. Tue. 9/23. 8 pm.
Everybody loves Renee Fleming and with good reason. The American soprano has given performances of consistently high vocal and dramatic quality. After her triumph last year as Rusalka, it only made more sense to give her more showcase roles. Julius Rudel conducts Massenet's opera based on the Prevost novel.
Ariadne Auf Naxos. Wed. 9/24. 7:30 pm.
Elijah Moshinsky's production of Richard Strauss's opera returns to the Met with Deborah Voigt, an ideal Ariadne, in the title role. James Levine is back in the pit to conduct a cast that includes Natalie Dessay, Suzanne Menster, Thomas Moser and Wolfang Brendel.
Carnegie Hall. .
Cecilia Bartoli Gala. Wed 9/24. 7 pm.
The Italian mezzo gives a rare performance to benefit brain tumor research at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. If you're feeling particularly generous, you can enjoy the post-gala supper on the Waldorf Astoria's Starlight Roof for $1000.
Yankees, Yankee Stadium,
vs Blue Jays. Sat. 9/20. 4 pm.
vs Blue Jays. Sun 9/21. 1:30 pm.
vs Blue Jays. Mon. 9/22. 7:30 pm.
Mets, Shea Stadium,
vs Pirates. Tue. 9/23. 7:30 pm.
vs. Pirates. Wed. 9/24. 7:30 pm.
Barrymore, Broadway, Music Box Theatre,.
Christopher Plummer channels the legendary, hard drinking John Barrymore in this delightful, if sight, one man show. Attempting to recreate his long ago success on the stage as Richard III, Barrymore turns a rehearsal into an amusing and touching series of anecdotes, full of memories, mishaps and not a few regrets. And elegant theatrical cocktail.
Gross Indecency- The Three trials of Oscar Wilde, Off Broadway, Minetta Lane Theatre..
This terrific courtroom drama, which uses original trial transcripts, letters and biographies as its sources, provides fascinating insight into the harrowing last days of the great Irish epigrammatist and playwright. The show which coincides with the 100th anniversary of Oscar Wilde's release from prison, is anchored by the stunning Michael Emerson, who plays Wilde with smooth wit and wrenching sadness.
The Last Empress, Off Broadway, Lincoln Center's New York State Theatre..
Imported from Seoul Korea, Yi Mun-yol's Massive musical spectacular combines elements of opera and Broadway glitz to depict the tragic life of Queen Myungsung, a grand matriarch of Korea's Chosun Kingdom who was assassinated by the Japanese in 1895
1776, Broadway, Roundabout Theatre,.
A revival of the Tony Award-Wining 1969 musical about the conflicts surrounding the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Expect lots of smoke, cannon-fire and patriotic songs.