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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on October 7, 2016?

44 free events take place on Friday, October 7 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 October 7 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 October . 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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44 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, October 7, 2016

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

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free events nyc Bach at Noon
free events nyc Mannes Orchestra: Beethoven in the Afternoon
free events nyc Amy Berg's Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015): Janis Joplin's Tragic Story
free events nyc cul-de-sac: Trying to Be Happy in America
free events nyc Marc Cary, Pioneering Jazz Pianist
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City Walk | Half-Smiler Walk with Artist Helen Mirra


Helen Mirra’s (b. 1970, United States) artistic practice is contingent on the activity of walking. She proposes a series of morning walks open to everyone, cultivating the half-smile. Mirra begins the half-smiler walks by introducing the concept of equanimity as described in early Buddhist philosophy, and corresponding ideas about the everyday, somatics, and friendliness. After a brief orientation, participants will set out for a few hours, walking separately in space while together in time, and then meet again for convivial lunch. October 3–7 and 10–14, 2016.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
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Workshop | Bridge Club


Are you a Bridge buff? Put your game face on and show off your best plays. Join the fun and meet new friends! All players welcome!
   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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Conference | Categories in Trouble: The Politics of Identity in North Africa, 19th-20th Centuries


Over the past two centuries, North Africa has been transformed by momentous economic and political change as well as mass migrations. This one-day interdisciplinary conference will address how these developments have shaped conceptions of population and territory and, in turn, personal and collective identities in the 19th and 20th centuries. It will also reflect on the importance historians have recently accorded to processes of categorization and classification as essential to colonial domination.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Downtown Manhattan 3-Hour Tour


The 3-hour walking and subway tour covers the Financial District including Wall Street and the World Trade Center, SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. These are neighborhoods that simply can’t be fully appreciated from a bus. There will be one or two opportunities to sample tasty treats. Daily.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | New York One-Day Tour


Don't have enough time to take all of the tours? Prefer to experience Manhattan with a smaller group, but a private booking is out of reach? Then consider our All-in-One New York 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, the World Trade Center, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown, Little Italy, Chelsea Market and the Highline Park. Tour takes place Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Mary Pan, organ scholar. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 13, 2016 to May 25, 2017.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:20 pm
Free

Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood Tour


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate. This tour takes place every Friday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Author Reading | Sangay Mishra discusses his book Desis Divided: The Political Lives of South Asian Americans


Focusing on Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi American communities, Desis Divided analyzes features such as class, religion, nation of origin, language, caste, gender, and sexuality in mobilization and shows how these internal characteristics lead to multiple paths of political inclusion, defying a unified group experience. Paula Chakravartty serves as discussant.
   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. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Meditation Session


Join the session and lessen the stress in your life. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 29.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Paul Newman's Oscar-Nominated Sometimes A Great Notion (1970): Ken Kesey's Novel


Stars: Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick. A family of fiercely independent Oregon loggers struggle to keep the family business alive amidst changing times. 114 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Film | Douglas Sirk's Oscar Nominee Imitation of Life (1959): Shades of Deceit


Stars: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee. A struggling young actress with a six-year-old daughter sets up housekeeping with a homeless black widow and her light-skinned eight year-old daughter who rejects her mother by trying to pass for white. 125 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Workshop | Learn Fencing in the Park


Take a stab at the modern sport of fencing with masters from Manhattan Fencing Center. No prior experience needed and equipment is provided. Must be 16 or older to participate. Every Friday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 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. Tour takes place Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Downtown Manhattan 3-Hour Tour


The 3-hour walking and subway tour covers the Financial District including Wall Street and the World Trade Center, SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. These are neighborhoods that simply can’t be fully appreciated from a bus. There will be one or two opportunities to sample tasty treats.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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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. Tours are Mondays and Fridays at 2pm, and Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10am.
   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. This tour takes place Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays at 2pm, and Saturdays at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Jacques Tourneur's I Walked With a Zombie (1943): Voodoo Doings


Stars: Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison. A nurse is hired to care for the wife of a sugar plantation owner, who has been acting strangely, on a Caribbean island. 70 mins.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Jason Moore's Sisters (2015) Sibs' Final Party


Stars: Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph. Two sisters decide to throw one last house party before their parents sell their family home. 118 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Other | Nature Sanctuary Open Hours


During these limited hours, visitors can explore the normally closed sanctuary at their own pace along the rustic trail. See how the conservancy has restored this native woodland garden for birds and other wildlife. The wood-chipped trail is uneven; please wear appropriate shoes. This ecosystem is a protected area and home to many flora and fauna. No groups, dogs, bikes, or strollers. Free and self-guided. Space is limited.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Rockefeller Center Tour


Rockefeller Center is one of the most popular public spaces and tourist attractions in New York City. This depression-era commercial complex takes up over three full city blocks and is rich with history, public art, and art-deco architecture. Built by business mogul John D. Rockefeller Jr. with his own money, he instructed his team of designers and architects to build the most beautiful commercial complex of it’s kind in the world. That vision resulted in what is still one of NYC’s greatest treasures and gave rise to some of NYC’s favorite traditions including the Radio City Christmas Spectacular featuring the famous dance team the Rockettes and the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Classical Music | Mannes Orchestra: Beethoven in the Afternoon


PROGRAM: Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 The Mannes Orchestra, led by conductor David Hayes, celebrates Mannes' Centennial year with a variety of exciting performances, collaborations, and special projects.
   New York City, NY; NYC
3:00 pm
Free

Classical Music | Violin Competition Finals


Program: Bruch Scottish Fantasy
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Author Reading | Contributors discuss the book 48 Hours In... Harlem


A launch event celebrating the new anthology of 10-minute plays. Refreshments will be served prior to a reading of plays by Keith Josef Adkins', Christine Jean Chambers' and more plays, a discussion and signing.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poets Read: Reginald Dwayne Betts / Aracelis Girmay / Safiya Sinclair


"Bastards of the Reagan Era" (Four Way, 2015) is the second, and most recent, collection of poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts. Aracelis Girmay (pictured) is the author of three collections of poems, most recently "The Black Maria" (BOA Editions, 2016). Safiya Sinclair’s first full-length collection is "Cannibal," (University of Nebraska Press, 2016) winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Conference | A Decade of Change: Redefining America


Redefining America: A Two Day Social Justice Event is part culture expo and part community organizing conference, based off of the 'A Decade of Change' initiative. Participants will collectively reimagine and redefine the America they envision for the future by addressing and dismantling issues of the present. Our theme of redefining America is both a pledge and a proclamation aimed at liberating and encouraging participants to collectively explore what is wrong with the system, what ever that looks like to them, so that they can then freely reimagine a system that works for everyone. Refereshments, lunch and snacks will be provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Amy Berg's Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015): Janis Joplin's Tragic Story


This documentary captures the rise to fame and tragic death of the musical icon Janis Joplin and her struggles with drugs, alcohol, and her self-doubts. Using archival footage, never before seen interviews, and recently discovered letters Janis wrote to her families and friends, the film tells a nuanced story of the singer's life. 103 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Drawing Life: The Rise of Graphic Biography in France


Featuring Olivier Balez, Pénélope Bagieu, Etienne Davodeau, Asaf Hanuka and Anne Simon. Moderated by Heidi Macdonald (The Comics Beat). Accompanying the current exhibition Roz Chast: Cartoon Memoirs, this discussion will focus on the ever-lively and inventive world of French cartooning. Who is the Parisian Roz Chast (if there is one)? What are the major themes of the latest projects coming out of France?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Film | Eduardo Lopez, Peter Getzels' Harvest of Empire (2012): A History of Latinos in America


This documentary explores the political events, social conditions and U.S. government actions that led millions of Latinos to leave their homelands and move to America.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Johann Friedrich Cotta—Publisher, Statesman, Entrepreneur


With: Dr. Bernhard Fischer, director of the Goethe- and Schiller-Archive in Weimar. Johann Friedrich Cotta (1764–1832) was one of the most fascinating personalities of the so-called Goethezeit in Germany. Born in 1764, he took part in every sphere of the intellectual revolution that arose in the wake of the French Revolution: the beginnings of a German “Nationalliteratur,” of a discourse-based political public life and constitutional government, and the advancement of science (and the Industrial Revolution). He established a legendary publishing company that published not only the works of Goethe, Schiller, Herder, and many other famous authors, but also some fifty different periodicals in addition to the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung, which was intended to be the German Times.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Play | cul-de-sac: Trying to Be Happy in America


In cul-de-sac you'll meet the Smiths, the Johnsons and the Joneses. They live in a nice little cul-de-sac in a nice little suburb in a nice little state in a nice big country. And they’re happy. Or—trying to be. The lengths to which they go to be--or seem or feel--happy are hilarious and heartbreaking. cul-de-sac is a not-quite-for-families family comedy that examines the American dream—and the nightmare it can become. Takes place Oct. 5-8.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Opening Reception | My Red Is Not Your Red: Paintings by David White


The inaugural solo exhibition by artist David White. Curated by Perri Dash of Eastmen Collective and Akeem K. Duncan of Quiet Lunch, this exhibition is a transportive experience that takes the audience inside the captivating world of the Digital Curators: characters who speak in color, shape and poetry. White, a self-taught painter spins a custom-colored yarn of form, texture and vivid narrative. His work breathes, inhaling inspiration and exhaling an abstract air that smells sweet to anyone with a nose for storytelling.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Advance to Kill: Allied Deception Efforts and the Struggle for the Gothic Line, Italy September 1944


Lee Windsor of the University of New Brunswick delivers this lecture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Faculty Recital: Kaitlin Stark, Voice


The LiveSOUNDS series, which features free performances by faculty and their guests on Fridays throughout the school year is a highlight of the school's concert programming. It presents a cross section of a diverse and creative community of Third Street faculty members who are deeply committed to excellence and professionalism.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Nagasaki Miracle Then and Now: inspiring stories through theater, music and dance


The Inamori Art Project Group from Japen was established by Naariko Inamori with the desire that we should hand over a peaceful future to children all over the world. Inamori Group, a volunter group of actors, singers, and dancers keeps alive that dream with theatrical plays music and live arts. They believe the message they bring will reach people's hearts and that the planet will become a more peaceful world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Play | New Visions Directing Festival: 8000m by David Greig


8000m takes us to the Himalayas, where an exhibition team attempts to summit Lhotse, the fourth highest peak in the world. As climbers undertake the Lhotse face, relationships fragment, shift, and cascade – just like the mountain surrounding them. What is the ultimate cost into this ‘Death Zone?’
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | New York Comic Con Invades Greenwich Village


Author panel: Box Brown (Andre the Giant, Tetris) Greg Rucka (Wonder Woman, Star Wars, Batman) Marjorie Liu (Montress, Avengers: Confidential, Astonishing X-Men) Ryan North (Adventure Time, The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl) Moderator: Joshua Rivera, NY Magazine
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Stephan Elliott's The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994): Won Oscar for Best Costumes


Stars: Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp. Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret. 104 min. Includes snacks and beverages.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$5 suggested donation

Tour | 9/11 Memorial and Brooklyn Bridge Night Tour


A renaissance is taking place on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, a concerted effort has been undertaken to redevelop this part of the city, with the redevelopment of the World Trade Center and the construction of the National September 11th Memorial and Museum. And from twilight into the night is the right time to pay a visit to this part of New York City. From the Memorial to the Woolworth Building, City Hall to the Brooklyn Bridge, some of the your most memorable experiences in the city await you. Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Tour | Ghosts of East Village Tour


The ghosts of Greenwich Village are too numerous and interesting to meet in just one evening. Due to popular demand, they are offering a new tour, Ghosts of the East Village, as a companion tour to Ghosts of the West Village.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Classical Music | NYU Symphony performs Liszt, Sibelius, Kodaly


Program: Kodály: Dances of Galánta Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major with Chantal Balestri, Piano Concerto Competition Winner Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 in E minor
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | Marc Cary, Pioneering Jazz Pianist


Jazz pianist and composer Marc Cary and his intrepid band craft a thrilling set that unites their love of go-go, hip-hop, Native American, jazz, house, West African music, and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:30 pm
Free

Performance | Cape Disappointment: A College Production


A decaying drive-in comes to life with stories of neon moonlight, naughty little girls, and an America you imagine remembering. So sit back, relax, refrain from loud talking and rough-housing, turn off your headlights, enjoy some tasty popcorn, put litter in its place, keep an eye on your children, think about how happy we could be, and remember that this country is full of dark, dark places along dark, dark roadways where dark, dark things can happen.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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