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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 17, 2014?
43 free events take place on Thursday, April 17 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 17 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.
Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on April 17, 2014?
43 free events take place on Thursday, April 17 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 17 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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The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
43 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, April 17, 2014
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Book Discussion | Martin Bjergegaard and Jordan Milne discusses their book Winning Without Losing
Join entrepreneurs and bestselling authors Martin Bjergegaard and Jordan Milne for an interactive breakfast workshop and the US launch of their international bestseller. The authors will be joined by some of NYC’s leading entrepreneurs for a panel discussion on work-life balance strategies in today’s competitive environment.
New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
Free
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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
Free
Free
Tour | Midtown Manhattan Tour
Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free
Free
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.
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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
$6...
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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
Free
Free
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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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
$6...
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Symposium | Visualizing Universalism: The UNESCO Human Rights Exhibition, 1949-1953
The Visualizing Universalism symposium marks the opening of a new exhibition publicly displaying the original 1949 UNESCO Human Rights Exhibition and its archive for the first time in 60 years. This exhibition was the first international event that sought to visually represent the history and meaning of the then-recently adopted Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Using the exhibition as a platform for critical debate on contemporary human rights culture, the symposium explores insights provided by UNESCO’s first attempt to visualize and historicize the UDHR.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
Lecture | Living in the Crypt: Mourning, Melancholy, and the Afterlife of Romeo and Juliet
We are told right at the start of Romeo and Juliet that their love is "death mark'd" - that they will be dead by the end of the play. But the lovers imagine themselves in states of living death so persistently before that promised end that a kind of mourning is deeply embedded in their self-awareness, in their love for each other, and in the audience's love for them. Ultimately, the play asks its audiences to reflect on the theater itself as a sacred space in which tragic characters cycle eternally through life and death.
Speaker Adam Rzepka received his Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Chicago in 2011, and is an Assistant Professor of English at Montclair State University. His publications include “'Rich eyes and poor hands': Theaters of Early Modern Experience,” in Shakespeare and the Senses (2010) and “Discourse ex nihilo: Lucretius in England to 1605” in Dynamic Reading: Studies in the Reception of Epicureanism (2010). He is currently researching literary uses of early modern psychological models.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
Free
Free
Film | Clarence Brown's Wife vs. Secretary (1936): Epic Battle
Starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy.
A publisher's wife begins to believe rumors about his attention to his secretary.
88 min.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Performance | Dzieci Theatre's A Passion: A Dramatic Choral Liturgy Not Bound by Any Single Religion
Dzieci is an international experimental theatre ensemble dedicated to a search for the “sacred” through the medium of theatre. Utilizing techniques garnered from such theatre masters as Jerzy Grotowski and the Polish Theatre Laboratory, Eugenio Barba, Peter Brook, ritual forms derived from Native American and Eastern spiritual disciplines, and an ethic based securely in Humanistic Psychology, Dzieci aims to create a theatre that is as equally engaged with personal transformation as it is with public presentation.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
$10 suggested donation
$10 suggested donation
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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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Tour | Subway Art Tour
Many people think of the New York City subway as one of the largest, most efficient, if not the cleanest mass transit systems in the world. Few, however, think of it as the largest and longest art gallery on the planet. Well, they don't know what they are missing. This lively walking AND subway riding tour visits over a dozen subway stations to experience a selection of these striking often whimsical works that go largely unnoticed by the general public.
Join this climate controlled subway and walking art tour. Along the way you'll learn about and become expert at navigating the (in)famous NYC subway system. There's also the invaluable opportunity to confer about your other sightseeing plans with the acclaimed Bronx born, vastly experienced licensed NYC tour guide, Darryl Reilly.
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
Free
Free
Staged Reading | The Essential Straight and Narrow, a Staged Reading and Conversation
Set in a motel room in New Mexico during the 1970s, the work follows an eclectic community and considers grief, mourning, memory, regret, and nostalgia. Described as a “love letter to the haunted American Southwest,” audiences have an opportunity to learn about the multifaceted nature and intricacies of presenting and creating this play before it’s premiere.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
Free
Free
Concert | College Recitals
4pm Mariko Wyrick, Cello
6pm Sonatenabend - Pianists from the Collaborative Piano Department perform sonata repertoire in collaboration with student instrumentalists
6pm Tavi Ungerleider, Cello
8pm Alexis Smith, Trombone
8pm Daniel Stein, Jazz Bass
8pm Lauren Klein, Trumpet
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
Free
Free
Lecture | Anonymous and the Craftiness of Craft and the Trickiness of Trickery
A lecture by Gabriella Coleman (McGill University, Montreal).
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
Free
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Birdwatching | Spring Birding Tour of the Park
Discover the birds that call the Park home, as well as those that may stop by during migration. A surprising diversity of avian visitors drop in, even in the heart of midtown. Sightings could include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, even an American Woodcock!
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
Free
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Tour | Brooklyn Heights Tour
Known as America's first suburb, Brooklyn Heights is truly a gem. Travel and Leisure named it one of America's top 10 most beautiful neighborhoods, and its beauty is rivaled only by its place in American history. These quaint, tree-lined streets have been the sites of Revolutionary War battles, abolitionist activism and have inspired numerous novelists. Visit a stop on the Underground Railroad, or the home of Truman Capote, where he penned Breakfast at Tiffany's and where Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers.
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 Maria Brea, Voice
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM Min Hee Kim, flute
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Singers and Pianists Seminar
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Common Descent
Common Descent is an examination of evolutionary possibility and probability.
Artists: C Bangs, Doug Baylos, Sabra Booth, Beatrice Coron, Margaret Craig, Susan Happersett, Helena Kauppila, Suzanne Reese Horvitz, Layet Johnson, Daniel Lee, Alexandra Limpert, Sarah Stengle, Lynn Sures.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | John Newman's Fit: New Works
A selection of new works on paper and mixed-media sculptures by the noted contemporary artist.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Mods, Rockers and Screaming Girls
Phyllis Magidson, Curator of Costumes and Textiles at the Museum of the City of New York, and Barbara Cohen-Stratyner, Curator of Exhibitions at the library, discuss the transatlantic fashion trends of the 1960s and how the Beatles impacted those trends.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Paintings: Cai Jin's Return to the Source
Widely recognized as one of the most distinctive painters of her generation, Cai Jin first attracted critical attention in the early 1990s with her paintings of meirenjiao (translated as “Banana Plant”).
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Photography: Yojiro Imasaka's Sleeping Beauty
Consisting of over twenty color and black-and-white photographs, Sleeping Beauty is a selection from a larger body of work by Imasaka, who documented his two-month road trip across the United States. This exhibition presents a mix of his smaller 35mm film prints and his larger prints using a classic Deardorff 8x10" large format camera.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Unfree Labor, Rights & Market Development: A View from Eurasia
In most Western countries between the mid-17th and the
end of the 19th centuries, labor was similar to service, and
wage conditions resembled
those of domestic servants with numerous constraints imposed
on workers’ mobility. In colonies, workers’ mobility was even more constrained and gave rise to extreme forms of dependency
not only under slavery, but also after it, as can be seen through
the growth of indentured labor in the Indian Ocean and obligatory labor in Africa.
In this lecture, Alessandro Stanziani argues that unfree labor and forms of labor coercion were perfectly compatible with market development and capitalism. Alessandro Stanziani is a professor at L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and senior researcher at the Centre National des Recherches Scientifiques.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Talk | Writing an 'Ethical Will': What It Is and How to Do It
An "ethical will" is NOT the standard legal will. The latter is about distributing stuff. An ethical will is about distributing you. With Anne Klaeysen.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | Matthew Algeo discusses his book Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk Was America's Favorite Spectator Sport
This visual presentation chronicles competitive walking’s peculiar appeal and popularity, its rapid demise, and its enduring influence.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk: Jill Magid
In this presentation, Brooklyn-based artist and writer Jill Magid will discuss a selection of her projects, which probe seemingly impenetrable systems such as the NYPD, The Dutch Secret Service, surveillance systems and, most recently, the estate of architect Luis Barrágan. Her work focuses on forging close relationships within bureaucratic structures—flirting with, seducing, and subverting authority.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Author Talk: Gary Shteyngart
Gary Shteyngart’s newest work is “Little Failure: A Memoir” (Random House, 2014). The event is hosted by writer and faculty member Darin Strauss.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | Author Talk: Kyla Wazana Tompkins
Kyla Wazana Tompkins is the author of the award-winning Racial Indigestion and is editing a brand new series on biopolitics of appetite, consumption, and hunger.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Exhibit: Flora, Fauna & Form: The Spring Thaw
Artists included are Chick Bills, Sean Capone, Jose Carlos Casado, Sally Egbert, Cara Enteles, Tapp Francke, Jerome Lucani, Glenn Marshall, Steve Miller and Jeff Muhs.
Flora, Fauna & Form: The Spring Thaw celebrates the arrival of Spring, the long-awaited savior. Artists who explore the organic and beautiful move the fantasy of reemergence of life into the forefront.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
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Author Reading | Hassan Blasim discusses his book The Corpse Exhibition
Iraqi author Hassan Blasim's collection of stories captures his war torn nation in savage, surreal images. Reviewers compare him to Carlos Fuentes, Rod Serling and Nikolai Gogol and call his stories "shocking, urgent, vital literature." Come listen.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Joyce Carol Oates reads from her book Carthage
Zeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. But when the community of Carthage joins a father's frantic search for the girl, they discover the unlikeliest of suspects—a decorated Iraq War veteran with close ties to the Mayfield family. As grisly evidence mounts against the troubled war hero, the family must wrestle with the possibility of having lost a daughter forever.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 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
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7:00 pm
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Book Signing | Philip Bailey, Grammy-winning singer of Earth, Wind and Fire, signs copies of his book Shining Star
BET Network executive Stephen Hill interviews Philip Bailey.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Performance | Performance Art: Sanford Biggers' Moon Medicine
Moon Medicine is undoubtedly performance art. It is also theatre and testimony and sculpture and painting and fashion and music, but mostly, it’s the dream child of visual artist and keyboardist Sanford Biggers.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Trio Séléné performs works by Faure and others
Program:
Alexander von Zemlinsky Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano in D minor, Op. 3
Fernando Buide Two Fragments (2014)
Gabriel Faure Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120
With: Ilya Poletaev, piano; Mingzhe Wang, clarinet; Eli Lara, cello.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
Free
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Master Class | Piano Master Class: Min Kwon
Min Kwon is a Korean-American pianist, Chair of Keyboard Department and Professor of Music at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in New Jersey. Previously, she also taught piano minor and chamber music at The Juilliard School in New York.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:45 pm
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Concert | Axiom Ensemble performs works by Stockhausen and Boulez
Specializing in the 20th century’s “classic” repertoire and conducted by acclaimed American conductor Jeffrey Milarsky, Juilliard’s critically-acclaimed contemporary music ensemble AXIOM performs works by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and his French contemporary Pierre Boulez. Photo by Peter Konerko
New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Tour | Manhattan Night Tour
New York is a skyscraper city and there is no better time to view Manhattan’s icons than after the sun sets and the lights go on. Fueled by competition and a dash of audacity, New York City is still producing one of mankind’s most remarkable skyline.
NOTE: THIS TOUR SPENDS MUCH TIME INDOORS OR IN SUBWAYS AND GREAT FOR ALL WEATHER CONDITIONS.
New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Mannes Orchestra plays music of student and faculty composers
This concert will feature two new works by student composers, as well as performances by the 2013 concerto competition semi-finalists, bassoonist Cathryn Gaylord and pianist Ting-I Lee, of Grondahl's Bassoon Concerto and Brahms's First Piano Concerto.
New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
Free
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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
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9:30 pm
Free
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