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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 16, 2014?

45 free events take place on Wednesday, April 16 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out April 16 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of April . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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45 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, April 16, 2014

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

Editor's Picks

free events nyc Author Talk: Joyce Carol Oates
free events nyc Photographer Richard Renaldi discusses his book Touching Strangers
free events nyc New Voices Playwrights Festival: The House Itself Does Not Burn by Molly Haas-Hooven
free events nyc A funny and often poignant portrait of the New York Times fashion photographer and cultural anthropologist.
free events nyc New Voices Playwrights Festival: The Old Forever New Things by Dan Kitrosser
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Park Walk | Central Park Tour


Stroll through the park and tell the epic story of New York's green oasis. Once described as the lungs of the city, Central Park brings a breath of fresh air to New York's crowded urban terrain. What started out as the rocky and desolate northern fringes of a rapidly expanding city is today amongst the world's most famous and beloved public parks. Originally intended to bring people of all walks of life together -- a people's park -- Central Park lives up to it's original designs. With over 843 acres of meadows, hills, ball fields and bodies of water, it's impossible not to find
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 10:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Greenwich Village Neighborhood Tour


Greenwich Village is among Manhattan's most desirable and expensive residential neighborhoods. It's history, however, betrays it's monied status. The Village, with it's quiet, shaded streets, lined with lovely brick and brownstone townhouses, was once the incubating ground of artistic, social and political movements that have helped shape US history. From the Beats to the Folk Movement, from workers rights to gay rights, the Village has often been the center of it all.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Lecture | Author Talk: Joyce Carol Oates


Joyce Carol Oates is perhaps one of the most prolific writer of her generation with over forty titles to her name, numerous collections of short stories, plays and criticism. She is the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction and the National Book Award. Her most recent novel is Carthage.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. You'll be surprised that Alex and Jordan can often be found outside tossing pins in the snow!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Gallery Talk | Tour of Grand Central Centennial Quilts


This new quilt show celebrates Grand Central Terminal through fiber art. Last year, The City Quilter, a Manhattan-based fabric store, partnered with American Patchwork & Quilting for a national quilt-making contest of landmark proportions. Thirty finalists from that competition will be displayed. Representatives from The City Quilter will lead a casual, free lunch-time tour of the exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour


A Museum Ambassador gives a 45-minute free guided tour through the permanent exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Juilliard Percussion Ensembles


Juilliard performers share their talent with the community in this free, hour-long lunchtime concert.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Jazz | Midtown Jazz


A jazz concert for the midtown community. These popular midday concerts feature well-regarded artists. The programming is overseen by jazz pianist Ronny Whyte.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Reading | Story Time for Grown-Ups


Love a good story? Sit back and relax as they read you a story or two. Featuring stories about libraries and librarians.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy & Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Harlem Tour


Although world famous, Harlem may be New York's best kept secret with some of the city's best architecture, food, music and people. Harlem's history is also one of the city's most dramatic, having gone through many ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic changes over the past roughly 400 years, which have resulted in a diverse array of places of worship, theaters, homes and eating establishments.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Master Class | Master Class: Stephanie Blythe, Voice


Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe is one of the most highly respected and critically acclaimed artists of her generation. Ms. Blythe has sung in many of the renowned opera houses in the U.S. and Europe, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Seattle Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, and the Opera National de Paris.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Art Shows: Lebbeus Woods: Architect / Len Lye: Motion Sketch


Lebbeus Woods: Architect brings together over 100 works from the past 35 years by one of the most influential architects in the field. Recognized beyond architecture, Lebbeus Woods (1940–2012) has been hailed by leading designers, filmmakers, writers, and artists alike as a significant voice in recent decades. Also on view is Len Lye: Motion Sketch. The first solo exhibition of Len Lye's work in an American museum explores the filmmaker’s multidimensional practice specifically in relation to drawing. Lye’s kinesthetic approach to line—related to Surrealist automatism and anticipating aspects of Abstract Expressionism—also informed his practice in painting, photography, film, and sculpture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | After Slavery: From Memory to Reparations in the Atlantic World


Myriam Cottias, historian of slavery and post-slavery society in the Francophone context, and President of France’s National Committee for the History and Memory of Slavery, discusses the politics of memory and the question of reparations in the Atlantic world today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Party | Book Designers Launch Party


Join the Designers Samm Cohen, Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, and Joseph A. W. Quintela as they unveil 9 unique book designs.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | College Recitals


6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Wei Qi, mezzo soprano 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Gwendolyn Reed, double bass 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Jazz Room Series 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Matt Poon, Piano 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Thomas Berkmann, jazz double bass 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Discover Opera! Spring Cabaret
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | College Recitals


6pm Double Vision XVIII - Presentation of new works composed during the current semester by students enrolled in the "Composition for non-majors" class taught by professor Philip Lasser. 8pm Paul Frucht, Composition
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Exhibition: Beautiful Losers


An exhibition of works by third-year BFA Illustration students.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Exhibition: Feral Objects


With: Alyssa E. Fanning, Christy Rupp, Debra Drexler, Emily Cheng, Ford Crull, Gary Stephan, George Quasha, Gwenn Thomas, Hans Breder, Isobel Davis, Jane Fire, Jill Levine, KK Kozik, Kylie Heidenheimer, Linda DiGusta, Linda Levit, Linda Schrank, Liz Ainslie, Lorenza Sannai, Marthe Keller, Nancy Grimes, Pam Longobardi, Peggy Cyphers, Raquel Rabinovich, Robert G. Edelman, Ruth Hardinger, Shawn Dulaney, Stephen Rosenthal, Steve Keister, Susan Smith, Susanna Tanger, Suzanne Joelson and Taissia Basaria.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Music, Machines and Meaning


This lecture by Andy Cavatorta, MIT Media Lab alumnus, Bjork collaborator and TED exhibiting artist, explores the pleasures and perils of creating sound and music using physical machines and materials. Topics include recent projects, a brief history of musical machinery, unusual aesthetic issues, an overview of useful skills and the importance of “fake rules.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Object Sculpture, 1960-1965


In conversation with Jeffrey Weiss and Julia Robinson, artist Robert Morris discusses various aspects of his practice, with an emphasis on the circumstances of art-making in New York during the 1960s and the themes – time, memory, language, medium, and process – addressed by his work at that time. This exchange coincides with the publication of Robert Morris: Object Sculptures, 1960-1965, a systematic catalogue by Jeffrey Weiss (with Clare Davies), prepared in close collaboration with the artist and his gallery.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Speak with the Poise, Passion, and Persuasive Power of a Broadway Actor


Whenever you speak for business, you are on stage. Maria Guida shares actors’ performance skills that help corporate professionals command attention and persuade their listeners -- in the office, boardroom, courtroom, on camera, and wherever it counts. Attendees learn how to enhance their professional image by using vocal performance and demeanor to project authority, authenticity, and approachability -- to take stage, captivate business listeners, and generate business.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | The Book Jackets of Philip Grushkin: A Look at the Design Process in the Pre-Digital Era


Paul Shaw, graphic design historian, looks at Philip Grushkin, one of the leading freelance book jacket designers in 1950s New York.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | The Chinese Armed Forces and Domestic Security


Speaker Dennis J. Blasko, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army (Retired), served 23 years as a Military Intelligence Officer and Foreign Area Officer specializing in China.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Historical Perspectives on Domestic Worker Organizing


The history of domestic-worker organizing illustrates how they have mobilized to transform their working lives and, in the process, have built a movement with a distinctive approach to labor organizing. In this conversation, historians Elizabeth Hutchison and Premilla Nadasen explore the contours of this history in the United States and Chile, analyzing 
the changing labor relations 
of domestic service over the course of the 20th century, and linking questions about domestic workers’ employment, migration, family life, and political activity to broader class, political, and ethnic relations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Jon Leiberman discusses his book Whitey on Trial: Secrets, Corruption, and the Search for Truth


This illustrated lecture showcases an Emmy-Award-winning TV and radio investigative crime correspondent's and author's first-person experience traveling the world with the FBI Bulger Task Force when Whitey was on the lam for sixteen years. He also focuses on the world of investigative journalism with an in-depth look into his career as a crime reporter, sharing his experiences working on a broad range of cases, from missing persons to murder investigations, as well as work as a victim advocate;
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Photographer Richard Renaldi discusses his book Touching Strangers


Since 2007, Richard Renaldi has been working on a series of photographs that involve approaching and asking complete strangers to physically interact while posing together for a portrait. Working on the street with a large format 8-by-10-inch view camera, Renaldi encounters the subjects for his photographs in towns and cities all over the United States. He pairs them up and invites them to pose together, intimately, in ways that people are usually taught to reserve for their close friends and loved ones.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Film | A funny and often poignant portrait of the New York Times fashion photographer and cultural anthropologist.


Documentary: Richard Press' Bill Cunningham New York (2010) For decades, he has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends from Manhattan sidewalks to high society charity balls. 84 min. Preceded at 6pm by viewing of the exhibition Bill Cunningham: Facades.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Talk | Artist Talk: Alix Pearlstein


"If it makes your stomach turn to hear that the musical is the Great American Art Form, you're not alone. But this shouldn't stop you from seeing Alix Pearlstein's "Talent," two new videos at On Stellar Rays that start with a musical and end up revealing, with subtle, controlled mastery, some uncomfortable truths about the contemporary art world." - Village Voice
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Artist Talk: Kira Lynn Harris


An artist whose work creates an intersection between space, light, architecture, science fiction and the ephemeral, Kira Lynn Harris is known primarily for her large scale installations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Caroline Clarke discusses her book Postcards from Cookie: A Memoir of Motherhood, Miracles, and a Whole Lot of Mail


Caroline Clarke's moving memoir of her surprise discovery of her birth mother Cookie Cole, the daughter of Nat King Cole, and the relationship that blossomed between them through the heartfelt messages they exchanged on hundreds of postcards.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Master Class | Master Class: Pamela Frank, Violin


Pamela Frank (born June 20, 1967) is an American violinist, with an active international career across a varied range of performing activity. Her musicianship was recognized in 1999 with the Avery Fisher Prize, one of the highest honors given to American instrumentalists. In addition to her career as a performer, Frank holds the Herbert R. and Evelyn Axelrod Chair in Violin Studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she has taught since 1996.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Theater | New Voices Playwrights Festival: The House Itself Does Not Burn by Molly Haas-Hooven


In the desolate landscape of a North Dakota boomtown, where oil flows and space is limited, residents and roughnecks struggle to live, love and break even.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Discussion | Process and Flight Plan: An Artists' Panel


With: Rachel Abrams, Henry Bermudez, Carla Goldberg, Laura Gurton, Michelle Marcuse, John Monti, Donna Moran, Anne Patterson, Courtney Puckett. There will be a reception after the panel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Sonya Rhodes reads from her book The Alpha Woman Meets Her Match: How Today's Strong Women Can Find Love and Happiness Without Settling


Therapist Dr. Sonya Rhodes guides readers to finding the right match without compromising.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Dance: Isack Peter Abeneko and Nshoma Nkwabi Nghangaamala


The Suitcase Fund hosts Isack Peter Abeneko and Nshoma Nkwabi, two, emerging choreographers from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | College Horn Recital


Merav Goldman, horn. Experience the freshness and excitement of a solo performance by a gifted young artist - a uniquely rewarding experience for music lovers. The program for this event is TBA.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Jazz | Jazz Ensembles


Jazz musicians perform original student-composed works that highlight the unique musical and compositional styles created within the Jazz division.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | College Bass Recital


Joanna Sternberg, bass
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Performance | Gandhi, Is That You? Comedy Show


Stand-up comedy show (that has been featured on MTV, and that fills to standing-room only each week). The show is produced by Brendan Fitzgibbons (The Onion, McSweeney's) and Lance Weiss (Carolines on Broadway) with comedians from David Letterman, Vh1, MTV, The Onion, and Comedy Central. Free pizza!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Theater | New Voices Playwrights Festival: The Old Forever New Things by Dan Kitrosser


When a traffic-cop accidentally spills a cup of coffee on a grad-student’s laptop, their disparate New York lives are twisted together in this comedy of manners, magic and missed connections.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:30 pm
Free
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Classical Music | Choral Work by Haydn and More at a Landmark Venue

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Play | A Play About a Famous Artist

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