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mammHoliday HappeningsTwo new Christmas trees aregoing to blaze in Brooklyn this week, lighting off with local ceremonies. One will be kindled in the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, under the arches and trusses of the Brooklyn Bridge at the Waterfront, on Dec. 14 at 6pm; call 977-8240 for more information. The other will light up the Fifth Avenue area in the Slope, starting on Dec. 21 at 7pm in the Community Garden at Baltic St. and Fifth Ave. Borough PresidentHoward Golden has been invited to come down, and local residents are encouraged to bring symbolic gifts to exchange with one another, call 622-1900 for further information.Brooklyn Union Gas will also be turning out the season, with the FestivalChorus serenading innocent passers-by and customers from BUG%u2019S melodic lobby with tunes ranging from ancient Chanukah songs to rythmic calypso numbers, like%u201c Mary%u2019s Little Boy Child.%u201d For more information call 643- 5000; the Chorus will be at BUG, 195 Montague St., from noon-2pm, Dec. 11-14, 17 and 18.The Behtlehem Lutheran Church in Boerirm Hill will be bringing a candlelight servicewith carols to theneighborhood on Sunday, with excerpts from Bach%u2019s %u201c The Christmas Oratorio,%u201d sung by the church choir, Dec. 16, 3:30pm, Third Ave., at Pacific St., call 624-0242Getting Bach To Basics At The GardenThe best composers are all-year composers, and judging from a long stint here at the Focus typewriter and the Up and Coming keyboards, Bach is a true man-of-allseasons. He was through last summer and spring, and played through the fall and now, with winter casting off its cold kid-gioves and getting down to work, Bach is back again.In honor of the touted Year of the Child, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is getting together with children from the Berkeley Institute and singers from St. Ann%u2019s Episcopal School for a quick run of holiday concerts. Bach rears his regal musical head in the first of three concerts next week, when the first two groups above will run through three traditional musical pieces by the oldpitta p u iC r \\_ ecm l u u i a o i c i , i c u i i a i \\ j iy . %u201c recently-discovered%u201d work by Bach%u2019s shady,black sheep brother, P.D.Q. Bach. %u201c The Seasonings,%u201d as it is called, will be performed by P.D.Q. Bach scholar Prof. Peter Schickele.Then, mid week, the Garden will show four Berkeley institute choirs singing Carols from around the world, many sung in languages like Latin, Latvian, German and Spanish as well as picking up St. Ann%u2019s Middle School Singers with traditional and contemporary noel tunes the following day.\16 at 2:30pm by the Brooklyn Friends Chorusand the Packer Collegiate Chorus, with aguest experience by Peter Schickele. Carolsfrom Around the World will be sung QeG. 19 at2:30pm; traditional songs will follow on the20th at 2:30pm. All shows are free at theBrooklyn Botanic Garden, 1000 WashingtonAve., call 622-4433 for further information.Soprano Dinah Bryant and baritone Matthew Murray(Victor Parker Photo)Handel With CareYou haven%u2019t heard %u201c Messiah%u201d until you%u2019ve heard the Philharmonia do %u201c Messiah,%u201d and if that performance has been missing from your concert repertoire you can head out this weekend to remedy that. The Brooklyn Philharmonia, led by conductor Lukas Foss, will run three shows of the famous piece by George Friedrich Handel, stocked and chocked with soloists.Bass-baritone Irwin Densen, a native Brooklynite, has been singing with the New York City Opera for a good ten years; this show is also bringing soprano Dinah Bryant back from operatic line-ups in Europe to sing here. Contralto Nadine Asher has a reputation in Chicago as a %u2018Messiah%u2019 singer, as does tenor Curtis Rayam who has toured with top-notch orchestras across the States and in Europe; additionally, Baritone Matthew Murray has sung parts of the piece many times before.With all this, and Foss, and the Philharmonia too, how can you pass it up?Handel%u2019s \the Brooklyn Philharmonia, with specialsoloists, on Dec. 14, 15 at 8pm, Dec. 16 at3pm. in the Opera House at the BrooklynAcademy of Music, 3 0 1 afayette Ave. Ticketsare $10.50, $8.50 and $6, with student andsenior citizen rusn iicxets avauaoie at sz.bu.For more information call 636-4120.Concerts In The GreenAdmittedly, it%u2019s a bit of a trip out to Greenpoint, but the event is going to be worth it: this coming Friday the Slavic Arts Ensemble will be holding a special Christmas Concert there, featuring works by Vivaldi, Saint-Saens, Rameau, Chopin and Rachmaninoff, as well as a sprinkling of traditional carols.Some of the performers will be Juliana Osinchuk, an internationally known pianist, Mieczyslaw Gubernat, violinist and founder of the Ensemble, and the show also sports the debut performances of 12-year-old pianist Dorothy Kubiak and her sister, 15-yearold pianist Margaret. The two are the daughters of Teresa Kubiak, Metropolitan Opera Soprano, and Janusz Kubiak, a wellknown cellist.Hip DancingHere's a breath of warm wind in the cold: evoking hot deserts and humid oases from the Middle East and Mediterranean climes, Eva and the Eastern Style Dancers will present %u201c Artistic Moods of the Belly Dance%u201d this Saturday in Park Slope.The show promises to be a well-rounded one, with not only Eva and her troupe, butalso guitarist Alex Girardo playing a solo series of songs spawned on the shores of the Mediterranean.Eva and the Eastern StyleDancers with guitarist AiexGirardo will perform on Dec.15 at 8pm in the St. JohnMatthew-Emmanuel Community Center, at 415 7th St.Admission is $4.Hannukah is upon you, Christmas in imminent, and your children probably want to get into the act of giving along with everyone else. This year the YWCA at 30 Third Ave. has set up a Chiidren%u2019s Holiday Shopping Mall for Sat., Dec. 15 where children ages 4-10 can do their shopping without parents along, and inexpensively too.The Mall, open from 10am-3pm, will offer handcrafted items made by children, teenagers and adults in Y programs, with prices from 10$ to $3. Parents Keep Out will be the rule, so teenagers will be on hand to help the children make selections and work out the cost. There will be items for all ages%u2014vases, banners, pencil holders, tree decorations, lots of useful things. While parents wait, they can take advantage of a bake sale being run by YWCA residents in the Y lobby.Children%u2019s Holiday ShoppingMall, sponsored by the YWCA at 30Third Ave., will be held from 10amto 3pm on Saturday, Dec. 15.Admission is free; gifts cost from10C-S3. For further informationcall Maureen Galvin, Director ofChildrens Programs, 875-1190.The Slavic Arts Ensemble will play at theUnited Methodist Church of Greenpoint, 112Messerole Ave., Dec. 21 at 7:30pm. Admission is $2.50. For more information call 389-6984.MailingYour ChildrenPage 28, The PHOENIX. December 13,1979