Our annual pre-holiday tour to *** NEW YORK *** to enjoy the city’s exciting seasonal celebrations, its dazzling holiday decorations – And a GREAT WEEKEND OF ENTERTAINMENT.

	Your Executive Worldwide Travel Tour Itinerary

	THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8 Depart Ottawa at 7:30 a.m. from the National Arts Centre. Our deluxe private motorcoach will take us to New York and will be with us throughout our stay. Enjoy video and music programs during the drive. A gourmet Champagne Luncheon will be served enroute. Arrive at approximately 4:00 p.m. at the charming Milburn Hotel, a boutique hotel located just off Broadway on the City's exhilarating Upper West Side. The Milburn Hotel New York City offers the excitement of New York right at the hotel's doorstep - minutes to museums, fine dining, shopping and Times Square theatres. The Milburn strives to make you feel like you're in a home away from home with a classical lobby with fireplace library/lounge and soft couches, and spacious apartment-like settings with well-equipped kitchenettes. Continental breakfast daily. Evening at Leisure. Optional Entertainment Choices Our first evening in New York City will be free for your optional entertainment choices before a busy weekend program. We suggest La Bohème, conducted by Louis Langrée with Hibla Gerzmava, Susanna Phillips, Dimitri Pittas, Alexey Markov, Patrick Carfizzi, Matthew Rose and Paul Plishka. Overnight Milburn Hotel

		FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9 Morning guided sightseeing tour terminating at the Pierpont Morgan Library for a visit and lunch. Located in midtown Manhattan, the Morgan houses one of the world's greatest collections of artistic, literary, and musical works, from ancient times to the medieval and Renaissance periods to the present day. Lunch at the Library. Remainder of afternoon free to enjoy the New York you love best. This evening, transfer to Avery Fisher Hall for our New York Philharmonic performance featuring conductor Daniel Harding and violinist Joshua Bell, named 2010 Instrumentalist of the Year by Musical America. For more than two decades, Joshua Bell has enchanted audiences worldwide with his breathtaking virtuosity and tone of rare beauty. He came to national attention at the age of 14 in a highly acclaimed orchestral debut with Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Today he is equally at home as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestra leader. His restless curiosity and multifaceted musical interests have earned him the rare title of “classical music superstar.” The program will include Robert Schuman’s Manfred Overture; Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 (1878) and Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring) (1911-13) 369. Transfer back to hotel after performance.
	SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10 Full Day at Leisure This is the best time of the year to catch the important art exhibits – the list of New York museums is endless. Morning motorcoach transportation to the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This afternoon, we suggest an optional matinée performance at the Metropolitan Opera at 1 p.m. Faust will be conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, with Marina Poplavskaya, Michele Losier, Jonas Kaufmann, Russell Braun and René Pape. This evening, transfer to the Vivian Beaumont Theatre for a performance of the thrillingly unique War Horse, a “landmark theatre event” which features seven-foot puppet horses manipulated by three human performers. War Horse centers on the relationship between English teenager Albert, and his beloved half-thoroughbred horse, Joey who has been sold to the cavalry as the war begins in 1914. Three years later, Albert runs away to join the army, determined to find Joey and bring him home. Meanwhile, this smart and brave horse is pulled into service on both sides of the conflict before being left on his own in no-man’s-land, surrounded by trenches and barbed wire. Transfer back to hotel following the performance. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11 Morning free to attend church services, stroll along the Avenues, or to do some last-minute shopping. Depart the hotel for Ottawa at 1:30 PM. A supper stop will be made enroute. Arrive in Ottawa at about 10:30 p.m. Executive Worldwide Travel is pleased to announce that this tour will be escorted by Director Jean Sheikh and Rob Clipperton, retired CBC radio broadcast journalist. A host of numerous radio programs during his tenure of more than 28 years with CBC, Rob is a recipient of the Ottawa Mayor’s Award for Community Service for his many voluntary hours devoted to taking the arts, particularly classical music, to urban and rural audiences.

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