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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on December 9, 2014?

46 free events take place on Tuesday, December 9 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 December 9 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 December . 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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46 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, December 9, 2014

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

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free events nyc Clint Eastwood's Jersey Boys (2014): Broadway Adaptation
free events nyc The Politics of Health Inequity: Public Narrative and Social Justice
free events nyc François Furstenberg discusses his book When the United States Spoke French
free events nyc Friends of Mozart: Music for Woodwinds and Strings
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Discussion | Crossing Broadway: How Community Activists Rescued Their Neighborhood from Crime


How did New York City emerge from the crime and decay of the crack years? Historian Robert Snyder argues that community activists who crossed racial and ethnic lines played a vital role in restoring order and vitality to ravaged streets in upper Manhattan, only to see the fruits of their labors threatened by growing economic inequality. Join a discussion with some of these activists. Moderator: Michael Powell, reporter, New York Times A conversation with: - Robert W. Snyder, author, Crossing Broadway; associate professor of American studies and journalism, Rutgers University-Newark - Led Black, Dominican-American writer-blogger, Uptown Collective - Dave Crenshaw, president, Uptown Dreamers Alumni Association - Victoria Neznansky, chief program officer, YM/YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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Tour | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour


This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | SoHo, Little Italy and 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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10:00 am
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Workshop | Computer Hardware Workshop


Learn about the insides of a computer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Numbers for Mac Workshop


Get acquainted with Apple's powerful spreadsheet application that gives you everything you need to create ledgers, reports, and graphs that help you visualize or present your data. Work seamlessly between Mac and iOS devices, as well as with colleagues, friends, and family who use Microsoft Excel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Jazz | Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen


The Gotham Jazzmen bring their take on Dixieland Jazz. The band features: Ed Bonoff on drums; James Collier on trombone; Lee Lorenz on cornet; Pete Sokolow on piano; Dick Waldburger on bass; Ernie Lumer on clarinet; and Bill Wurtzel on guitar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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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
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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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Concert | Brandee Younger, Holiday Harpist


Experience the harp this holiday season like never before. Brandee Younger is a versatile artist who has defied genres and labels, performing in both traditional and modern harp areas. Her ability to spotlight the harp in music genres where it is oftentimes absent is a testament of her love for the instrument and her cross-reaching ability as a musician.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Concert | Christa Rakich, Organist


Christa Rakich is Artist-in-Residence at the Congregational Church of Somers, CT. She also directs the music program at St. Mark the Evangelist Church in West Hartford. She has served on the faculties of Westminster Choir College, Brandeis University, New England Conservatory, and the University of Connecticut, and as Assistant University Organist at Harvard. Other Artist-in-Residencies have included the University of Pennsylvania and First Lutheran Church in Boston.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Jazz | Dan Martin Trio, Jazz Holiday Music


The Dan Martin Trio returns to delight audiences with joyous jazz music for the holiday season.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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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. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | U.S. Custom House Tour


Join a Museum Ambassador for an in-depth look at the unique architecture and exquisite beauty of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, home of the museum. Designed by famed architect Cass Gilbert and completed in 1907, the Custom House is a National Historic Landmark. The building’s interior splendor includes an elliptical rotunda with a 140-ton dome skylight designed by Valencia-born engineer Raphael Gustavino and murals by New York painter Reginald Marsh, as well as monumental marble arches and columns. Tours include a visit to the Collectors Office, not normally accessible to the public. The Collectors Office features woodwork by Tiffany Studios and can be seen on Boardwalk Empire and in films like Spike Lee’s Inside Man.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Bushwick Graffiti and Street Art Tour


New York City is a mecca for graffiti and street art, making it a very attractive playground for artists from around the world. Bushwick, in a working class district on the north side of Brooklyn adjacent to Williamsburg, has been attracting artists for some time now. The neighborhood has a fair collection of art studios and galleries, but it’s Bushwick’s industrial landscape that’s attracting the street artist. If you came looking for 1960′s Greenwich Village, you’ll find something brewing in Bushwick.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Citizen Cartography: Building a Virtual Atlas of New York


Help NYPL build the geospatial library of the future! This workshop will get you oriented with the set of tools the Library has developed that enables librarians and the general public to add valuable geographic context to old maps by overlaying digital images of historical maps onto a contemporary digital map through a process called georectification, or "warping" maps. This means overlaying digital images of historic maps onto a contemporary digital map (similar to Google Maps), transforming them into tiles of a virtual atlas.
   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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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Getting More Out of Google


Come and explore the depths of Google. Discover some of the amazing new features Google is offering.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Exhibition Tour: For a Love of His People: The Photography of Horace Poolaw


Join a Museum Ambassador for a guided tour through the temporary exhibition. This exhibition presents the work of Kiowa photographer Horace Poolaw, who documented life in rural Oklahoma from the 1920s to the 1960s. The tour will discuss Kiowa pictorial traditions, the formation of Oklahoma, Native participation in the U.S. Armed Forces, and the American Indian Exposition, as documented by Poolaw.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Concert | Choral Works and Christmas Carols


The chorus of Jackson Memorial High School in Jackson, New Jersey perform choral works and Christmas carols by Lauridsen, Gilpin, Saylor, Burrows, Beck, Anderson/Parish, Bach, Althouse and Wilhousky.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Film | Clint Eastwood's Jersey Boys (2014): Broadway Adaptation


With Christopher Walken, Steven R. Schirripa, John Lloyd Young. The story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons. 134 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
Free

Talk | Top Ten Tips for Aging Well Psychologically


We can’t stop the aging process or many of the physical changes that occur. But there are psychological “tricks” that can ease one’s passage toward longevity – from becoming more assertive to welcoming change. Eve Markowitz Preston, Ph.D., will explain 10 winning strategies.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Discussion | Actor James Franco discusses his movie The Color of Time


Join actor James Franco, poet C.K. Williams, and writer Shruti Ganguly for a moderated conversation and audience Q&A about The Color of Time. The film — an ensemble piece by 12 different directors — is an inventive look at the life and work of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet C.K. Williams.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 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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5:30 pm
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Book Signing | Austin Mahone signs copies of his book Just How It Happened: My Official Story


See how Austin Mahone went from being a kid from a small town in Texas singing and having fun on YouTube with his friends to headlining his own shows around the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | College Recitals


Chamber Music Recital 6 p.m. First Year Vocal Arts Presentation 8 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Eating Organically on a Budget


Do you want to eat more organic, locally grown foods, but don’t know where to start? Have you wanted to learn more about how an organic diet can benefit you and your family’s health? Mona Laru is certified thru Thomas Edison State College of NJ in Nutrition for Optimal Health and Wellness and certified in Group Fitness thru American Aerobic Assoc.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Exhibition: What’s Inside?


An exhibition of projects selected by BFA Interior Design faculty members as the best student work of the spring 2014 semester.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Jack Hill's Coffy (1973): Vigilante Nurse


Stars: Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui. A nurse becomes a one-woman wrecking crew when she seeks revenge on the drug-pushers who hooked her little sister on heroin.
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Media Farzin, Art Historian and Critic


Media Farzin is a New York-based critic and art historian, and PhD candidate at the City University of New York. Her research looks at language-based art in the 1970s in relation to performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Mivos Quartet performs works by Bach and others


Program: Martin Stauning Atmende Steine (2013) J.S. Bach Contrapunctus XIX (arr. Patrick Higgins 2013) Patrick Higgins Aletheia (2013) György Kurtág Hommage à Mihály András: 12 Mikroludien für Streichquartett, op. 13 (1977) “One of America’s most daring and ferocious new-music ensembles” (The Chicago Reader) makes their venue debut with imaginative works from three composers from across the globe.
   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


Maria Guida shares actors’ performance strategies that help you command attention and speak with real persuasive power. Whenever you speak for business, you are on stage. 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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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Adventures in Italian Opera: A Conversation with Soprano Danielle de Niese


The third Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season will feature soprano Danielle de Niese, one of the most exciting and admired young artists in opera today. A star at Glyndebourne, the Met and elsewhere, she plays leading roles in Italian-language operas by Handel, Gluck, Mozart and other composers. This season she is Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Met.
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Flesh or Stone? Michelangelo's Statue of Lorenzo in the Medici-Chapel


A talk by Professor Luca Giuliani. Michelangelo's seated statue of Lorenzo de' Medici created for the nobleman's grave in the Sagrestia Nuova of San Lorenzo supports its left elbow on an object that scholars generally call a casket. Closer inspection however reveals that it depicts neither a casket nor any other object of use; it is quite simply a carefully smoothed ashlar block decorated with a mask. This detail has consequences for the way Michelangelo transformed his material, stone, into a subject of his art. Stone as a subject, in turn, directs our attention on the artistic production of the work. Although Michelangelo completed this particular statue, it thus leads to a better understanding of all the sculptures he left unfinished - a phenomenon that struck his contemporaries as a conspicuous characteristic of his art and that since then has provided the occasion for a wide range of interpretations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Slide Lecture | Jeffrey M. Blustein discusses his book Forgiveness and Remembrance: Remembering Wrongdoing in Personal and Public Life


This illustrated lecture examines the complex moral psychology of forgiving, remembering, and forgetting in personal and political contexts. It challenges a number of entrenched ideas that pervade standard philosophical approaches to interpersonal forgiveness and offers an original account of its moral psychology and the emotions involved in it.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Symposium | The Politics of Health Inequity: Public Narrative and Social Justice


Why do those with low income and little political influence have higher mortality rates and lower life expectancy than those with greater wealth and influence? Why do African-Americans have almost three times the infant mortality of whites? Dr. Richard Hofrichter helps us reflect on the ways racism and class exploitation are fundamental causes of inequity in the distribution of disease and illness. He will explore how dominant public narratives in both popular culture and public health practices have obscured imbalances in political power; and he will invite us to reflect on how our belief in those narratives allows some population groups to have worse health and lower life expectancies than others. ​
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
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Workshop | Windows 7 Basics Workshop


Learn the basics of navigating a PC with Windows 7.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | An Evening with King Dork Approximately


With your host, Beth Lisick. And songs from author Frank Portman. Featuring music, readings, and emoting from popular stars Jami Attenberg, Emily Gould, Gayle Forman, Zachary Lipez, Chris Gethard, Joel Reader, Mikey Erg, Liz Prince, and Maeve Higgins with special guest appearance by: FREE BEER for the first 100 attendees.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | François Furstenberg discusses his book When the United States Spoke French


The biographer and essayist Anka Mulhstein talks with the historian François Furstenberg about his recent book, an account of the early years of the American republic through the eyes of five distinguished Frenchmen seeking refuge from their own Revolution.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Tour | New York Holiday Lights Tour


It's time to celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah and the New Year as Midtown Manhattan lights up like no other place in the world. Mechanical window displays, synchronized light and sound shows, not to mention Santa Claus and toy soldiers surely await you in this winter wonderland. Check them all our on the New York Holiday Lights Tour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Photographic Representations of Motherhood and the 'Selfie' Phenomenon


Curator and writer Susan Bright talks about her recent projects, including her explorations of photographic representations of motherhood and the “selfie” phenomenon. Bright’s books include Auto Focus: The Self Portrait in Contemporary Photography (Monacelli, 2010) and Face of Fashion (National Portrait Gallery, 2007).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | College Recitals


7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Sophomore Vocal Recital 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM Kyung-Eun Na, accompanying
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Film | Documentary: Jesse Moss' The Overnighters (2014)


Broken, desperate men chase their dreams and run from their demons in the North Dakota oil fields. A local Pastor risks everything to help them. 102 min. There will be a live Q&A with director Jesse Moss following the screening.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Concert | Friends of Mozart: Music for Woodwinds and Strings


Program: Mozart: Quartet in F major, K. 370, for oboe and strings Divertimento in D Major, K. 251, for woodwinds and strings Quartet in F major, K. 370, for oboe and strings Duos for French horns, K. 487 Divertimento in D major, K. 251, for woodwinds and strings Mayuki Fukuhara, violin Mineko Yajima, violin Sarah Clarke, viola Lindy Clarke, cello John Fenney, bass Stephen Taylor, oboe Joseph Anderer, horn Virginia Benz Anderer, horn
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Concert | College Composers Recital


This concert will feature performances of new works by College Division composition students.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Jazz | Juilliard Jazz Ensembles


Featuring: Lightning, Thunder, and Fire: The Sophistication of the Max Roach Clifford Brown Quintet and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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