Some of the best small groups routinely play suites in all but name: nearly unbroken club sets in which form is improvised and themes recur.
Tomorrow evening Mr. Tsutsumi is to perform Suites Nos. 2, 4 and 6; on Sunday afternoon, he is to play Suites Nos. 1, 3 and 5. Tomorrow at 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m. Maverick Road between Routes 28 and 375, West Hurley, N.Y., just outside Woodstock.
In the works is a French play, "Suite 2806" — inspired by the episode in the New York hotel room with the housekeeper — and, separately, a movie directed by Abel Ferrara with Gérard Depardieu.
That's what I did on Sunday, consolidated a lot of services round Comcast and its Triple Play suite of services.
Now, in perhaps his most unusual venture yet, Mr. Haimovitz is playing Bach suites on Friday night at the rock mecca CBGB on the Bowery.
Inside Number 5, Carole's husband, Don "Wat" Watanabe, and Juliette White, a staff assistant, are playing baroque suites for recorder and cello.
The lounge pianist Loston Harris played a suite of standards in a mechanical imitation of Erroll Garner.
Instead of delineating its movements, as Ms. Manzo did, Ms. Ettenauer played the suite as a continuous work.
Just how good that music is, as music, came through in the first work the Philharmonic played, a Suite from "Sunday in the Park With George," arranged by Mr. Starobin, who was the original orchestrator.
To celebrate the Aaron Copland centenary, many of the society's leading players get together to play the suite from "Appalachian Spring" in its original, fresh and infinitely preferable scoring for 13 players.
