Early Music: An ensemble of early music will give free concerts at the Cloisters today and tomorrow at noon and 2 P.M. Renaissance Music: Choral and instrumental works of the Renaissance will be performed by Pomerium Musices in the Medieval Court of the Metropolitan Museum of Art at 6 and 8 tonight and tomorrow. This Chorus Tree winds up its season of free, half-hour performances tonight at 7:15 and tomorrow at 5:15. Today Chorus Tree: Sixty-five choristers who assemble on a scaffoldlike platform, in the shape of a Christmas tree, have been presenting holiday songs at the South Street Seaport's Pier 16. Almost a quarter of a million people are expected to jam Times Square to watch the ball be lowered manually by a concealed crew of six, choreographed by its official timekeeper, Tama Starr.Ī selection of ways to enjoy the six-day New Year's Eve weekend follows: Introduced in 1908, it is said to have been modeled on 19th-century waterfront time balls that helped sea captains set their chronometers.
The huge aluminum sphere is 6 feet in diameter, weighs 240 pounds and is illuminated by 180 red 25-watt light bulbs and 28 emerald green ones. Runners dressed in tuxedos and gowns will make champagne pit stops in Central Park, as a small army of readers in SoHo makes its way through the tongue-twisting cadences of Joyce's ''Finnegans Wake.''Īnd what would New Year's Eve be without the grandest tradition of all - the annual descent of the ball in Times Square? The ball - dressed up as an apple since 1981 - will make its 70-foot descent on 1 Times Square during the last minute of 1986. Fireworks will bedazzle millions of bleary midnight eyes near the South Street Seaport and Central and Prospect Parks. Music will resound from concert halls, churches, parks and even a barge in Brooklyn. In addition to the plethora of public celebrations in nightclubs, hotel ballrooms and restaurants, New York City offers a remarkable assortment of ways to enjoy a holiday period that embraces 6 of the 12 days of Christmas, Hanukkah, the African festival known as Kwanza and New Year's Eve itself. This year, New Year's Eve ''weekend'' embodies a crescendo of six days of festivities that culminates in that ultimate witching hour: midnight, Dec. Dangling between old and new, it is also a mini-season for celebration, as champagne corks pop, fireworks explode and reflection gives way to revelry.
This grand ritual of resolutions and remembrance is as much a state of mind as a place on the calendar. THE long countdown to New Year's Eve has begun.
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