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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on February 25, 2014?

47 free events take place on Tuesday, February 25 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 February 25 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 February . 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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47 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, February 25, 2014

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Editor's Picks

free events nyc What Does The Affordable Care Act Mean For You?
free events nyc Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen
free events nyc Dave Davidson's Hans Richter: Everything Turns – Everything Revolves (2012): Documentary on the Artist
free events nyc Bertrand Tavernier's Oscar Winner 'Round Midnight (1986): Paris Jazz Scene in the 50s
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Discussion | The City and The State: Conflict or Collaboration?


Is tension inevitable between Albany and NYC? Or is it just that there’s a new mayoral administration and an election-year governor, and press and politicos shining the spotlight in search of every conflict? As Mayor de Blasio seeks to fulfill campaign promises and pursue the agenda that got him elected, a popular Governor Cuomo has his own program to fulfill. Will the city and state collaborate? Or will diverging fiscal and political priorities cause more conflict, more publicly than in the past? With: - Michael Benjamin, political columnist, New York Post; former NYS Assemblyman (D-Bronx) - Bill Hammond, political columnist, New York Daily News - Thomas Kaplan, political reporter, The New York Times - Liz Krueger, New York State Senator (D-Manhattan)
   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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Other | A Taste of Cocoa 2014


Drop by for delicious complimentary samples of hot chocolate from Bouchon Bakery, Bill’s Bar & Burger, and ‘wichcraft.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 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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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: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:15 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 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
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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Lecture | Neither Donkey Nor Horse: Medicine and the Struggle Over China's Modernity


A lecture with Sean Lei, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Moderated by Eugenia Lean, Associate Professor of Chinese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | Northern Park Welcome Tour


See the Park’s northernmost highlights on this walk from Conservatory Garden along the Harlem Meer and past the North Woods. Route easy to negotiate, a few stairs. 45 minutes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Talk | What Does The Affordable Care Act Mean For You?


The Affordable Care Act represents a monumental change in the delivery of health care in the United States. After withstanding a constitutional challenge, the ACA is on track to maintain its scheduled implementation, although some of its most controversial provisions will not be fully effectuated until a future date. Nonetheless, individuals,employers and taxpayers of all types must prepare for the new system. Daniel Mazzola examines some of the ACA stipulations including "shared responsibility payments", premium assistance tax credits available to individuals and qualifying small businesses, exchanges where health insurance can be purchased, equirements for large employers and the cost/levels of coverage for NYS residents.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
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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Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter


Enjoy a 45-minutes docent-led tour of the exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 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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Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 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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Film | Dave Davidson's Hans Richter: Everything Turns – Everything Revolves (2012): Documentary on the Artist


At the forefront of the avant-garde, Hans Richter (1888-1976) — Dadaist, radical provocateur, surrealist painter, pioneering filmmaker, and visionary educator—was a major yet largely unknown creative force in 20th-century art. This film reveals a committed visionary artist, a catalyst and a facilitator who understood the power of creating a communal work of art with great social significance. 63 min. In English and French and German with English subtitles. Screening presented by filmmaker Dave Davidson.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:30 pm
Free

Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter


Enjoy a 45-minutes docent-led tour of the exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Master Class | Clarinet Master Class: Matthias Schorn


"Charming, witty ideas, a magnificent sound, top-notch virtuosity – a musician entirely at ease with himself and his music”, a critic wrote on the occasion of Matthias Schorn’s solo clarinet debut with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel in December 2011. Nordkurier, the German daily, describes him as “the most exciting clarinet newcomer since Sabine Meyer”, and the Washington Post praised his “technically brilliant” playing in May 2012.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Free

Film | Neill Blomkamp's Elysium (2013): Dystopian Adventure


Cast: Sharlto Copley, Matt Damon, Alice Braga. In the year 2154, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. 97 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 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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Workshop | Intro Class: Using Meditation to Dissolve Stress and Boost Well-Being


With Vijaya Nair. Research has shown that those that have effective coping strategies have a higher functioning immune system and are less prone to fall ill. You will discover a comprehensive meditation approach designed to help us cope with the psychological and physical stressors of “day-to-day living.”
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:45 pm
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Workshop | Yoga Class


Free yoga class for all levels brought to you by Compass yoga.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:45 pm
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Film | Bertrand Tavernier's Oscar Winner 'Round Midnight (1986): Paris Jazz Scene in the 50s


Starring Dexter Gordon, Franois Cluzet and Herbie Hancock. The film was written by Tavernier and based on a composite of jazz legends Lester Young and Bud Powell. Dexter Gordon won a Grammy for the film's soundtrack entitled The Other Side of Round Midnight in the category for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Soloist. Herbie Hancock won the Academy Award for Best Music, Original Score. 133 min. Followed by a discussion with director Bertrand Tavernier and invited guests.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Concert | College Piano Recital


Jung-A Bang, Collaborative Piano
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | College Voice Recital


Emmett O'Hanlon, Baritone
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Inesa Sinkevych, Pianist


Inesa Sinkevych was a performer in the 12th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Counterinsurgency and Peacekeeping Operations in Western and Central Africa


A lecture with Brigadier General Jean-Luc Friedling, BG French Army, and Head of Military Mission and Advisor to the French Permanent Representative to the UN, and Adrien-Basseyni Diarra, Fellow at the Georgetown University Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Center for Security Studies.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:10 pm
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Slide Lecture | Max Alvarez discusses his book The Crime Films of Anthony Mann


Before achieving renown for his electrifying 1950s James Stewart westerns, Hollywood director Anthony Mann (1906-1967) created a brilliant cycle of black-and-white crime thrillers, including such film noir masterworks as Raw Deal (1948), Side Street (1950), and Desperate (1947). Tough, uncompromising, and often beautifully conceived, these Mann thrillers of the 1940s touch upon everything from illegal immigration and working class struggles to intense studies of the criminal mind in post-World War II America.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Chad Harbach discusses his book MFA vs. NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction


Chad Harbach, Keith Gessen, Emily Gould, Carla Blumenkranz, Eli S. Evans and Mel Flashman discuss the overlapping worlds of MFA and NYC, and the ways writers make (or fail to make) a living within them.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | College Voice Recital


Gabriel Rollinson, Baritone
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Definitions: Buckminster Fuller


A discussion on an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. With Daniel Lopez-Perez, Alejandra Zaera-Polo and Stan Allen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance: Tisha Melina Ford / VECCHIO MERDA DANZBAND / Lailye Weidman


A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress, for artists at all stages of their development. The events are centered around an audience discussion moderated by an Artist-in-Residence or an occasional guest, where we will experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists' process.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Jennifer George and Charles Kochman discuss their book The Art of Rube Goldberg


Writer, jewelry and clothing designer Jennifer George, the granddaughter of Rube Goldberg and Charles Kochman, Abrams ComicArts Editorial Director, will discuss their recently published book about the legendary cartoonist.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Karen Beaumont, Organist


Karen Beaumont is from Milwaukee. Works by Scheidt, Steigleder, and de Grigny. St. Mary's Church (Episcopal), 521 W. 126th St. / Amsterdam Ave. Free. 414-276-0499.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Film | Korean Film: Yi-kwan Kang's Juvenile Offender (2012)


Teenage Jang Ji-Gu takes care of his ill grandfather while hanging out with other troubled kids. Abandoned by his parents at an early age, he suffers multiple run-ins with the law and is eventually sent to a detention center for juvenile offenders. 107 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Master Class | Percussion Master Class: Alessandra Belloni


Alessandra Belloni is the Artistic Director, Founder and Lead Performer of "I GIULLARI DI PIAZZA", an Italian Music, Theatre and Dance Ensemble, who is Artists-in-Residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. She is also the designer of a line of signature series Italian tambourines made by Remo, and of special brushes for tambourine with Regal Tip. She is the only woman in the U.S. and in Italy who specializes in traditional Southern Italian folk dances and percussion combined with singing that she learned in Southern Italy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Photographer Talk: Irina Rozovsky


Photographer Irina Rozovsky’s projects have taken her to Cuba, Israel, her native Russia and corners of her adopted hometown of New York City. Her monograph One to Nothing was included in fellow photographer Alec Soth’s top 20 photo books of 2011.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Photographer Talk: Sara Macel


A conversation with with Marvin Heiferman. Copies of “May the Road Rise to Meet You”, published by Daylight Books, will be available for sale and for signing by the artist after the talk.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Suzanne Krauss discusses her book To Vegas and Back


The story begins with a twenty-six-year-old woman living the American dream in the 1960s. She was a homemaker and mother of three in the beautiful suburbs of Philadelphia. At thirty-two she gets a divorce and trades brownies and carpools for pasties and feathers as a showgirl in Las Vegas.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | The Personal and the Political: Losing Parents to AIDS


With Alysia Abbott, Kia Benbow, Mathew Rodriguez, and Sarah Schulman. Even though AIDS was identified (as GRID) in 1981, we now know that people were dying from it ten to thirty years before. Of those who died of AIDS, many had children. The amount of people whose parents died of AIDS may number in the hundreds of thousands nationally, and in the tens of thousands in New York City. Yet they have never been heard from as a community. This event is to start this conversation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Documentary: Bill Siegel's The Trials of Muhammad Ali (2013)


The Trials of Muhammad Ali delves deeply into a time when an emerging sports superhero chooses faith and conscience over fame and fortune. The fury he faced from an American public enraged by Ali's opposition to the Vietnam War and unwilling to accept his conversion to Islam, has global implications for generations now coming of age amidst contemporary fissures involving freedom, faith and military conflict. 92 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Talk | Novelist A.M. Homes discusses her work


A.M. Homes is the author of seven books of fiction, including, This Book Will Save Your Life, The End of Alice and The Safety of Objects, as well as the best-selling memoir, The Mistress's Daughter. Her work has been translated into twenty-two languages and has appeared in Harpers, Granta, McSweeney's, The New Yorker and The New York Times.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | College Piano Recital


Alexander Tuchman, piano. 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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Concert | Jess Domain, Pop Singer-Songwriter


Jess Domain is known for creating cinematic music with an edge, seamlessly incorporating pop, soul, electronica, rock and even jazz to create songs that are authentic and born from experience. With a voice that fingerprints our inner soul coupled with themes of enlightenment and change, Domain shows the world snapshots of itself with each song.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
No cover

Master Class | Master Class: Jane Marsh, Voice


Jane Marsh has been described as a “universally brilliant singer.” Born in San Francisco and a Graduate of Oberlin College/Conservatory, she was invited by the White House to represent the U.S. in the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and was the first singer ever to win the Gold Medal in that competition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Performance Art: David Watson performs Parade


A sound and image performance by David Watson. Watson has been a participant, observer and fan of New York City street parades. As an experimental musician he is drawn to the combinations of organization and disorder, sound and noise. This has led to him to making original pieces for three pipe bands in Hobart, Australia; a game piece in an empty storage facility in Los Angeles; and a "sonic progress" by a brass band through the city of Wellington, New Zealand. Parade is the original video iteration of these works and includes live sound.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
$5

Concert | Tom Kolor performs from his CD American Masterpieces for Solo Percussion


PROGRAM: Elliott Carter Figment V Ralph Shapey 2 For 1 Milton Babbitt Concerto Piccolino Charles Wuorinen Marimba Variations Earle Brown May 1, 1994 from Folio II Morton Feldman The King of Denmark John Cage Composed Improvisation Christian Wolff Percussionist Songs I-VII TALUJON presents Tom Kolor in Uptown/Downtown, his first New York solo recital in ten years. The concert celebrates the release of his new solo CD American Masterpieces for Solo Percussion on Albany Records.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
$10 suggested donation...
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Classical Music | Choral Work by Haydn and More at a Landmark Venue

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