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POLLYTALK FROM NEW YORK
By Polly Guerin
September 28, 2009
NEW YORK MIXED BAG CELEBRATIONS!!!
Nowadays in books and plays emotions are all the rage, cocktails clink and benefits sing for
their supper. Well, just look at my Mondays, an average day, reporting on fashions mixed bag,
museum openings galore, how could anyone be a bore. So with this and with that, and the opera
you see, my life is as full as a woman’s can be. Here’s the scoop!!!
Calling all opera aficionados!!! There’s music in the air with a celebrated concert hosted by
the fabulous Patrice Munsel at The Giulio Gari Foundation’s gala benefit celebrating the winners
of the 2009 International Vocal Competition. The great Metropolitan star Dolora Zajick, Richard
Margison and maestro Joseph Colaneri add to the roster of stars, who honor the memory of the
famed tenor, Giulio Gari who helped and encouraged young singers throughout his long and
illustrious career. In his name the Giulio Gari Foundation is dedicated to nurturing, mentoring and
promoting young classical singers as they launch their careers. At The New York Athletic Club,
l80 Central Park South, Sunday, Oct.4th, concert 6pm, dinner buffet 7pm. 2l2.874.3934, or visit
www.giuliogari.org.
Cocktails clinking, dancing all night at the Manhattan Cocktail Classic, Oct.3 & Oct.4 at the New
York Public Library turns Astor Hall into a spectacular event filled with all sorts of seminars and
tastings and libations to please everyone. Night owls alert: Sunday night’s bash, 8-11pm, lets you
dance to big band jazz and nosh all you want while learning about two centuries of classic drinks
made by some of New York’s best bartenders. Have a blast and put on your glamour duds. Only
in New York my friends, only in New York. www.manhattancocktailclassic.com.
Go Dutch and see The World of Margrieta Van Varick at The Bard Graduate Center at 18 W.
86th St., where “Dutch New York Between East and West” opened and remains on view till Jan. 3,
2010. The exhibit also focuses on Margrieta’s descendants, including those for whom Varick
Street in downtown Manhattan and Willets Point in Queens is named. In 1711 Margrieta’s
daughter, Cornelia van Varick, married Peter Van Dyke, the acclaimed craftsman whose beautiful
objects of American colonial silver are on display. www.bgc.bard.edu.
Move over fashion celebs. Last week Debenhams, the British department store chain, during
London Fashion Week, featured some of fashion’s greats for the windows of its Oxford Street
flagship store. Mannequins meant to look like Vogue’s Anna Wintour, journalist Suzy Menkes,
Victoria and David Beckham and Ann Piaggi with her pompadour hairstyle and even Andre Leon
Talley all sat in the front row lineup just as they do at the fashion shows. There was one other
chic figure next to Anna, and if I do say so myself, I declare she looked just like yours truly. Well,
one can always count on the Brits’ collections to run the gamut from the masculine-feminine to
soft draping, ruffles and girly floral prints. The party at Emporio Armani Caffe at St. Martins Lane
Hotel was a gas and guests grazed on delicacies and vodka based cocktails. What a week, what a
party!!!
That’s it for this week, my darlings!!! I’m off to take a vicarious trip to Paris and the Fashion
Collections. I’ll tell all next week. Remember that you heard all about it on the Big Apple News
Network. Fan mail is always welcome, please send me an email: pollytalk@verizon.net or www.
pollytalk.com and don’t forget to go to my blog for the latest on the Art Deco Divas: www.
amazingartdecodivas@blogspot.com.
By Polly Guerin
September 28, 2009
NEW YORK MIXED BAG CELEBRATIONS!!!
Nowadays in books and plays emotions are all the rage, cocktails clink and benefits sing for
their supper. Well, just look at my Mondays, an average day, reporting on fashions mixed bag,
museum openings galore, how could anyone be a bore. So with this and with that, and the opera
you see, my life is as full as a woman’s can be. Here’s the scoop!!!
Calling all opera aficionados!!! There’s music in the air with a celebrated concert hosted by
the fabulous Patrice Munsel at The Giulio Gari Foundation’s gala benefit celebrating the winners
of the 2009 International Vocal Competition. The great Metropolitan star Dolora Zajick, Richard
Margison and maestro Joseph Colaneri add to the roster of stars, who honor the memory of the
famed tenor, Giulio Gari who helped and encouraged young singers throughout his long and
illustrious career. In his name the Giulio Gari Foundation is dedicated to nurturing, mentoring and
promoting young classical singers as they launch their careers. At The New York Athletic Club,
l80 Central Park South, Sunday, Oct.4th, concert 6pm, dinner buffet 7pm. 2l2.874.3934, or visit
www.giuliogari.org.
Cocktails clinking, dancing all night at the Manhattan Cocktail Classic, Oct.3 & Oct.4 at the New
York Public Library turns Astor Hall into a spectacular event filled with all sorts of seminars and
tastings and libations to please everyone. Night owls alert: Sunday night’s bash, 8-11pm, lets you
dance to big band jazz and nosh all you want while learning about two centuries of classic drinks
made by some of New York’s best bartenders. Have a blast and put on your glamour duds. Only
in New York my friends, only in New York. www.manhattancocktailclassic.com.
Go Dutch and see The World of Margrieta Van Varick at The Bard Graduate Center at 18 W.
86th St., where “Dutch New York Between East and West” opened and remains on view till Jan. 3,
2010. The exhibit also focuses on Margrieta’s descendants, including those for whom Varick
Street in downtown Manhattan and Willets Point in Queens is named. In 1711 Margrieta’s
daughter, Cornelia van Varick, married Peter Van Dyke, the acclaimed craftsman whose beautiful
objects of American colonial silver are on display. www.bgc.bard.edu.
Move over fashion celebs. Last week Debenhams, the British department store chain, during
London Fashion Week, featured some of fashion’s greats for the windows of its Oxford Street
flagship store. Mannequins meant to look like Vogue’s Anna Wintour, journalist Suzy Menkes,
Victoria and David Beckham and Ann Piaggi with her pompadour hairstyle and even Andre Leon
Talley all sat in the front row lineup just as they do at the fashion shows. There was one other
chic figure next to Anna, and if I do say so myself, I declare she looked just like yours truly. Well,
one can always count on the Brits’ collections to run the gamut from the masculine-feminine to
soft draping, ruffles and girly floral prints. The party at Emporio Armani Caffe at St. Martins Lane
Hotel was a gas and guests grazed on delicacies and vodka based cocktails. What a week, what a
party!!!
That’s it for this week, my darlings!!! I’m off to take a vicarious trip to Paris and the Fashion
Collections. I’ll tell all next week. Remember that you heard all about it on the Big Apple News
Network. Fan mail is always welcome, please send me an email: pollytalk@verizon.net or www.
pollytalk.com and don’t forget to go to my blog for the latest on the Art Deco Divas: www.
amazingartdecodivas@blogspot.com.