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Where else but in New York City can you listen to a world-class musician, discuss a book with a famous author, take a part in poetry reading, have a glass of wine at an art exhibition opening, and all that on the same day, and all that free of charge, and all of that on any day of the year, whether it's December or July, April or November!
The trick is to know about those free events, free things to do BEFORE they happen, not after the fact. That's where Club Free Time comes in handy! Become a Club Free Time member and start using these unique New York City (NYC) opportunities today, April 20, 2024!
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Experience an entirely new perspective on New York. 'Open up a whole new cultural world... in one of the most vibrant capital cities in the world, sampling cultural delights beyond anyone's wildest dream.' Rupert Parker, journalist, photographer, cameraman, and TV producer
April 20, 2024. Free shows, concerts, movies, tours are New York (NYC) best kept secret! New York City never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment whether it's day or night, weekday or weekend, summer or winter, spring or fall, January or June, May or September. If you are looking for inexpensive things to do and where to go in Manhattan today, tonight, tomorrow, or any other time, or any other day of any week - you came to the right place: just click on any day on the calendar dispayed on the every page of our site and you will see how many events you can attend in Manhattan free of charge on that very day.
New York's cultural scene is at its busiest in October and March (and the same goes for free events, free things to do), but other months of the year still offer incredible amount of high quality, off the beaten path, unique free events, free things to do which will take your breath away! So if you looking for something to do in April or November, December or February, you will find tons of free things to do, free events to go to. (In June, July and August lots of those free events take place outdoors, of course).
So do not wot till tomorrow, start using these unique New York City opportunities today, April 20, 2024!
Where else but in New York City can you listen to a world-class musician, discuss a book with a famous author, take a part in poetry reading, have a glass of wine at an art exhibition opening, and all that on the same day, and all that free of charge, and all of that on any day of the year, whether it's December or July, April or November!
The trick is to know about those free events, free things to do BEFORE they happen, not after the fact. That's where Club Free Time comes in handy! Become a Club Free Time member and start using these unique New York City (NYC) opportunities today, April 20, 2024!
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Club Free Time is your perfect guide to Free Entertainment and Free Culture in the City That Never Sleeps.
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Free things to do, free events that take place in the City every day of the year are truly amazing. So if you're looking for something interesting to do today (April 20, 2024) or on any other day of the year don't miss those free-of-charge opportunities that only New York provides! You can find lots of high quality, off the beaten path, unique free events, free things to do which will take your breath away!
In addition to providing information about free events, free things to do in New York, Club Free Time offers its members complimentary tickets to classical music concerts, dance performances and theater: when a producer wants that special buzz of the 'full house' - Club Free Time members are welcomed for their enthusiasm and sophistication!
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Get a taste of free culture and free entertainment in New York City (NYC)!
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Experience an entirely new perspective on New York. 'Open up a whole new cultural world... in one of the most vibrant capital cities in the world, sampling cultural delights beyond anyone's wildest dream.' Rupert Parker, journalist, photographer, cameraman, and TV producer
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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!
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Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides:
- free concerts in NYC
- free movies in NYC
- free jazz in NYC
- free poetry readings in NYC
- free tours/hikes in NYC
- free city walks in NYC
- free Yoga /Tai Chi in NYC
- fairs and parades in NYC
- free theater in NYC
- free tickets to concerts, theater and dance performances in NYC
'New York is abuzz with so much culture that they're giving it away.' (The New York Times article about Club Free Time).
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52 free things to do in New York City (NYC) today:
Saturday, April 20, 2024
All events are free unless otherwise noted.Tour | 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many
These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows.
SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown
Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO
3 Hour Lower Manhattan
Harlem
Chelsea and the High Line
6 Hour Downtown Combined
Greenwich Village
Central Park
Lower Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan
Grand Central Terminal
Graffiti and Street Art Tours
World Trade Center
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10:00 am
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Festival | Earth Day Celebration
Celebrate the power of native plants through free educational activities and workshops for all ages, guided tours through the Island’s open space, a participatory mural inspired by the relationship between milkweed and Monarch butterflies, nature activities, and volunteer stewardship projects.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Festival | Earth Day Festival
Help plant wildflowers, trees, and shrubs along the forest edge. Volunteers will receive all tools and training necessary to engage in the work.
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10:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair
Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
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10:00 am
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Fair | Street Fair
Free fun for the whole family, including arts, crafts, antiques, plants, entertainment, games, and more.
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Drawing in the Garden
All are welcome. Supplies will be provided.
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Hydrox Fitness Racing
A pop-up training event -- a High Intensity workout. Hydrox has taken the fitness industry by storm creating a functional strength and running race, which is currently held at multiple cities across the globe. In short, this is a sport that truly everyone can get involved in! Use this opportunity to learn more. Challenge yourself by taking part in our unparalleled experience, but most importantly connect with like-minded individuals who share the same passion for pushing and exceeding their limits. You will be using dumbbells and functional equipment to bring you a 60-minute workout experience. This experience is open to all skill levels as they believe there should be no prerequisite to take part.
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park
Get in a quick lesson, stay for the whole time, or just enjoy watching them put their skills to the test. They're a friendly group and open to drop-ins, even if you catch them outside of the regular juggling lessons. All skill levels welcome. Equipment is provided.
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11:00 am
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Hike | Spring Blooming Hike
Spring has sprung. Flowers and trees are in full bloom this season. Learn some ways to identify these spring beauties and the important roles they play in our ecosystem.
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Origami Meetup
OMG NYC (Origami Meetup Group! New York City) is a group for people to come together and share in the beautiful art of Origami - an ancient art of folding various mediums, most commonly paper. The word comes from the combination of the Japanese verb oru (to fold) and the noun kami (paper). Other materials often folded are fabric, wire mesh, sheet metal, tissue, thin plastic, cardboard, and straws.
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11:30 am
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Festival | Earth Day Festival
The Earth Day Festival welcomes the warmer months, celebrates the planet we all share, and highlights the park’s spring beauty. Explore vibrant seasonal blooms, enchanting cherry blossoms, and embrace the spirit of sustainability. Live music Arts, crafts, and educational activities Cooking demonstrations Free treats And more!
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Harp Concert at the Museum
Wander the museum while listening to the beautiful sounds of Jose Luis on the harp. Jose Luis has been performing for over thirty years and is highly regarded as a gifted harpist by his peers. Jose Luis is the only harpist to play both the classic concert harp and the Latin lever harp; which requires him to pluck the strings with two different techniques; the first uses his fingertips and the second his nails. Jose Luis first fell in love with the sound of the harp and began studying in his early teens with Maestro Jose Serrano in Puerto Rico. He later visited Los Angeles to take private lessons with the world-renowned harpist and composer Alfredo Rolando Ortiz.
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12:00 pm
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Festival | Indieplaza Festival
The festival celebrates independent music, minds, and merchandise, and will once again welcome indie to midtown Manhattan. Indieplaza will feature a thoughtfully curated lineup of artists, an artist merchandise booth, arts & crafts booth, food and beverages, and more. indieplaza is headlined by Chicago trio Dehd in advance of their anticipated new album Poetry. indieplaza will also spotlight some of the buzziest, up and coming artists in music today including: Wishy, an Indiana group with a 90s indie rock sound, NYC-based hip-hop duo Armand Hammer, indie/pop band Water From Your Eyes, and more.
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | Park Tour: From Freight to Flowers
Hear the story behind New York City's park in the sky: an insider's perspective on the park's history, design, and landscape.
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12:00 pm
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Festival | Spring Awakening in the East Village
An annual celebration of spring and the opening of community gardens. There will be greening groups tabling, music, workshops, and at community gardens, including La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez, 6BC Botanical Garden, DeColores Community Yard & Cultural Center, Francisco "Pancho” Ramos Community Garden (formerly 9C garden), and more.
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12:00 pm
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Guided Island Tour
Look into the past of the island and learn about its excit-ing trans-for-ma-tion and future. In this walk-ing tour, you'll exam-ine how his-toric preser-va-tion, inno-v-a-tive design, and envi-ron-men-tal stew-ard-ship make the Island what it is today: one of the most unique pub-lic places in New York City.
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12:45 pm
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Classical Music | Violin Works by J.S. Bach, Bartok, and More (In Person AND Online!)
Violin Recital. Program Charles Auguste de Beriot (1802-1870), Violin Concerto No. 9, Op. 104 J.S. Bach (1685-1750), Partita No. 3 in E Major for Solo Violin, BWV 1006 Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), Praeludium and Allegro Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), Melodie from Orfeo ed Euridice Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), Marche Miniature Viennoise Max Bruch (1838-1920), Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880), Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22 J.S. Bach (1685-1750), Partita No. 3 in E Major for Solo Violin, BWV 1006 Bartok (1881-1945), Romanian Folk Dances, Sz. 56
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1:00 pm
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Play | Pecong: The Sorceress and the Womanizer
The Speech, Communications and Theatre Arts Department presents Pecong, a 1990 play by American playwright Steve Carter. Set “well in the past” on a fictional Caribbean island, the play tells the story of a sorceress who falls madly in love with a shallow womanizer. This play is a Caribbean adaption of Medea.
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2:00 pm
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Film | The Holdovers (2023) with Paul Giamatti
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War. Director: Alexander Payne Cast: Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa Paul Giamatti is an American actor. His accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award and three Golden Globes, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and a British Academy Film Award.
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2:00 pm
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Film | The Hours (2002) with Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman
The Hours is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition. Director: Stephen Daldry Cast: Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman Meryl Streep is an American actress. Often described as "the best actress of her generation," Streep is known for her versatility and accent adaptability. She has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over four decades, including a record 21 Academy Award nominations, winning three, and a record 33 Golden Globe Award nominations, winning eight. Julianne Moore is an American actress. Prolific in film since the early 1990s, she is particularly known for her portrayals of emotionally troubled women in independent films, as well as for her roles in blockbusters. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Emmy Awards. Nicole Kidman is an American and Australian actress and producer. Known for her work across various film and television productions from several genres, she has consistently ranked among the world's highest-paid actresses. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and six Golden Globe Awards.
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2:00 pm
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Discussion | A Conversation with the Bestselling Author Elliot Ackerman
Elliot Ackerman is the bestselling author of the novels Halcyon, 2034, Red Dress In Black and White, Waiting for Eden, Dark at the Crossing, and Green on Blue, as well as the memoir The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan, and Places and Names: On War, Revolution and Returning. His books have been nominated for the National Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal in both fiction and nonfiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize among others.
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2:00 pm
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City Walk | A Sense of Permanence: An Architectural Walking Tour
In conjunction with the exhibition Sites of Impermanence, Richard Gluckman leads an architectural walking tour of his Chelsea projects that transformed 19th and early-twentieth century warehouses and industrial buildings into some of the most iconic "white cube" galleries, helping to define a typology that continues to have global influence on the art world today. The 1987 renovation and conversion of a Chelsea warehouse at 548 West 22nd Street--into a 40,000-square-foot, four-story exhibition facility for the Dia Center for the Arts--became a model for exhibition facilities of this type. Guided by a sensitive and thoughtful approach to adaptive reuse, Gluckman created spaces and structures that emphasized the sympathetic presentation of contemporary art: column-free interiors and diffused natural light that preserved details from a building's industrial past, like exposed ceilings that celebrated the original structures. This rigorous design approach soon drew others to a then-desolate Chelsea neighborhood, including Paula Cooper Gallery, Mary Boone Gallery, and Gagosian, to solidify the neighborhood as the center of activity for the global art world.
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Chamber Music on the Water
A one hour performance (no intermission), including a Q & A session with the musicians. The program is announced at the performance.
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2:00 pm
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Tour | Guided Island Tour
Look into the past of the island and learn about its exciting transformation and future. In this walking tour, you’ll examine how historic preservation, innovative design, and environmental stewardship make the Island what it is today: one of the most unique public places in New York City.
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2:45 pm
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Play | The World's Most Boring Murder: A Farcical Murder Mystery
A farcical murder mystery that draws from Commedia and Brazilian Clown traditions. In this playful comedy, an inexperienced police inspector needs to solve his small town’s very first crime, which happens to be a violent murder. Along with two less than capable assistants, they will have to investigate a dozen of the towns' most colorful characters to find out who the killer is, before they become a serial killer. Written by Fernado Segall. A student production.
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3:30 pm
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Jazz | Now's the Time for Jazz Diplomacy
Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam is proud to present the Ari Roland Quartet with Ari Roland, bass, Zaid Nasser, saxophone, Chris Byars, saxophone, and Keith Balla, drums. Ari Roland is a born and raised New Yorker, Juilliard alumni, who was mentored by legends such as Lou Donaldson, Barry Harris and Betty Carter. He has traveled around the world to Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, on 150 tours, spreading his message of unity through jazz music. He presents his program, "Now's the Time for Jazz Diplomacy." Ari Roland Quartet Ari Roland, bass Chris Byars, saxophone Zaid Nasser, saxophone Keith Balla, drums
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4:00 pm
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Classical Music | Serene organ meditations in an intimate venue (In Person AND Online)
Enjoy a program of hymns, anthems, and voluntaries for the organ.
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4:20 pm
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Gallery Talk | Afternoon with the Artists
An afternoon with artists Barbara Takenaga and Robert Kushner on the occasion of the concurrent exhibitions Barbara Takenaga: Whatsis and Robert Kushner: Antella Curtains and Windows.
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4:30 pm
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Jazz | Influential Jazz Artist from Argentina
Argentinean-born artist Sol Liebeskind started her musical journey in 2009. She remains one of the most influential artists in the Jazz/ Soul scene in Buenos Aires and has participated multiple times in the Buenos Aires International Jazz Festival (2011, 2014, 2015). In 2015, she moved to New York City where she recorded her latest album and has performed at prestigious venues such as: Carnegie Hall, Brooklyn Bowl, National Sawdust, Trinity Hip Hop Festival, Arthur's Tavern to name a few.
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7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Military Connected: Performance Salon
Exit12 and Women Veterans Empowered & Thriving are co-hosting a Military Connected Performance Salon & Social. Come see incredible dance, listen to powerful spoken word, and socialize with the veteran arts community in NYC.
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Concert | Opera Arias and Broadway Songs by Puccini, Verdi, Gershwin, and More
The Opera Collective NYC, featuring Alexis Cregger, Soprano; Rachel Hippert, Soprano; Anna Viemeister, Mezzo; Jose Heredia, Tenor; Jonathan Green, Baritone; and Jeremy Griffin, Baritone, perform works by Puccini, Verdi, Massanet, Porter, Gershwin and more!
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Classical Music | Chamber Choir
MSM Chamber Choir; Malcolm J. Merriweather, Director.
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Play | Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest: A "Trivial Comedy for Serious People"
Two upper class aristocrats fake identities in pursuit of love, or something like it, resulting in misadventure, misbehavior, and the most mild-mannered smackdowns. A student production.
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Play | Hermione: Shakespeare-Inspired Comedy
Revenge, absolution, and racism are all front and center in this Shakespeare-inspired comedy that combines and reimagines the Bard’s The Winter’s Tale and Othello. The story follows Emilia, a woman seeking vengeance on her husband, the King of Sicilia, after he falsely accuses her of adultery and sentences her to death. In her quest for retribution, she joins forces with a man named Iago, who has a revenge scheme of his own Written by Oded Gross. A student production.
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Classical Music | Violin Works by Beethoven, Saint-Saens, and More (In Person AND Online!)
Aram Kim, Violin. Program Beethoven (1770-1827), Sonata No. 6 for Violin and Piano in A Major, Op. 30 No. 1 Krzysztof Penderecki (1933-2020), Cadenza for Solo Violin Saint-Saens (1835-1921), Sonata No. 1 for Violin & Piano in D Minor, Op. 75
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Classical Music | Vocal Works by Debussy, Faure, and More (In Person AND Online!)
Colin Aikins, Tenor. Program Norbert Glanzberg (1910-2001), Padam Padam Debussy (1862-1918), Nuit d’etoiles, CD 2, L. 4 Faure (1845-1924), Cinq Melodies de Venise, Op. 58, No.1 "Mandoline" Faure (1845-1924), 3 Melodies, Op. 8, No. 1, Au bord de l’eau Faure (1845-1924), Chanson d'amour Duparc (1848-1933), Phidyle Duparc (1848-1933), Le manoir de Rosemonde Kurt Weill (1900-1950), Je ne t’aime pas Kurt Weill (1900-1950), Youkali Duparc (1848-1933), Extase Kurt Weill (1900-1950), Complainte de la Seine Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947), A Chloris Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947), Si mes vers avaient des ailes Erik Satie (1866-1925), Je te veux Louis Guglielmi (1916-1991), La vie en rose
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