The Colorado Blue Spruce is a fine tree. The state tree of Colorado.
Posted on 11/27/2006 12:02:19 PM PST by presidio9
Tonight at 5:30, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts presents its 17th annual Holiday Tree Lighting. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be telecast live on New York's WABC-TV, Channel 7; the station's Sade Baderinwa and Sam Champion will host.
Special performances at this family gathering include excerpts from the Metropolitan Opera's new English-language adaptation of Mozart's The Magic Flute (including an appearance by renowned baritone Nathan Gunn as Papageno); festive music by members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra; dancers from the School of American Ballet and New York City Ballet in a selection from George Balanchine's The Nutcracker™; fire-juggling by the Gizmo Guys from the Big Apple Circus; and holiday favorites sung by Alvin Slaughter and the SRC All-City Gospel Chorale.
Beginning at 5 pm, Lincoln Center and O’Sullivan Tree Care will offer free 12" spruce seedlings to the first 500 children to visit the tree care station on the Plaza.
At 5:59 pm sharp — with help from Mickey and Minnie Mouse and from magic light wands distributed to the audience — the giant evergreen next to the fountain in Josie Robertson Plaza will be illuminated. This year's tree, a 50-foot Colorado Blue Spruce, is decorated by Wedgwood with specially-designed performing arts-themed ornaments.
Immediately afterwards, the Lincoln Square Business Improvement District hosts "Winter's Eve at Lincoln Square," a shopping and entertainment fair extending from the Time-Warner Center at Columbus Circle up Broadway to West 68th Street. In addition to food tastings and other in-store activities, there will be free entertainment — including appearances by violinist Joshua Bell and folksinger Peter Yarrow of the legendary trio Peter, Paul and Mary.
What does a holiday tree look like? Is it anything like a Christmas tree?
wonder what holliday they're gonna celebrate. maybe a late fourth of July?
Gee, I wonder what holiday they're referring to.
It looks kinda like the "Giving Tree" used for the Giving Tree Festival every year on Dec. 25th.
....geez, they're going pretty low into C-list celebs....
It gets worse than that. People in my office were wishing people a happy "Holiday," in referrence to Thanksgiving last week. I guess mentioning Thanksgiving makes people uncomfortable because then they start wondering just exactly Who it is that we should be thanking.
This year for Giving Tree Festival mom's getting this lovely Holiday candlabra.
soon all holidays will be generic, that way they can declare them whenever they want to. there won't be christmas, easter, memorial day, fourth of july, veterans day, etc., just 'holidays' which will then be disused because it comes from "holy day", they'll just become days off with no meaning.
I think it celebrates the birth of a tree from long ago, no?
RamaHanaKwansMas.
I hear they're going to revive the Ethel Merman favorite, "We Need a Little Holiday."
After that the chorus will present, "I'm Dreaming of a White Holiday."
Not to mention, "THE Holiday Song."
Trying to piss off Sharpton and Jackson, are we? ;-)
It looks like a Christmas tree except it has soldering irons hanging as ornaments.
Sounds like a great intro to a new Sci-Fi novel, A Brave New World III: Happy Hollidays where people showing any sense of pleasure and any sense of recogniction of real history would be given massive amounts of soma.
BTW, much like Reagan has talked about taxes, has any nation survived or gone through great times if it overemphasizes its own collective guilt?
A few times in the past it was fine(the Civil Rights Acts, Native American help, Women's voting) , but I wonder truly how Liberals must feel about FDR, who showed no guilt on taking out Europe, Truman who showed no guilt on the atom bomb. Plus, it isn't happy hollidays, it is Merry Christmas no matter what. Chanukah and Ramadan both have random dates, in fact I am not sure where Chanukah falls this year, Christmas is always December the 25th. It kind of makes some people feel stupid doesn't it?
In fact, I don't remember FDR, the Liberal's patron saint, talking at all about abolishing Christmas and the like, in fact except for his fiscal policies, and the poll thing, he probably wasn't much of a social Liberal. Of course Jesse Jackson would yelp about Black Friday and Black Tuesday, and yelp about how Jesus Christ isn't represented as being black.
Hell, you prove the great point that a nation that doesn't stand for something will fall for anything. Perhaps at the heart of a Brave New World III, there will be a holiday called The Ford Alms, which will become the inner core of the novel, not only that but the population will get lazier, progress will slow and for the other populations, they'll try to attack us because we have the potential to get that lazy.
Oh yeah there is a little bit of irony about Pete Yarrow, remember Pete Seeger?
I bet you all have heard The Byrd's Christmas song, Turn, Turn, Turn, didn't know it was a Christmas song with coming out during the season and adding in "a time for peace" from the original biblical notation because of the season. Well, of course, Pete adapted it from the Bible, Pete a very Liberal folkie.
It is ironic that people of the Folk genre would even want a Holiday celebration, but I think that their Liberalism matters more, to them, then their Christianity. I am not even Christian and I find this a whole lot of nonsense. Personally, and this is OT, but why don't people like Pete Seeger and other Mad Muslim lovers convert to Islam? They love it so much.
eventually there will be no holidays - the libs want control and what would be better than a whole bunch of workers toiling eight hours a day five days a week (better yet 16/7) without a day off - until they die?
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