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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on January 14, 2023?

32 free events take place on Saturday, January 14 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 January 14 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 January . 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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32 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Saturday, January 14, 2023

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

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free events nyc Buying a Home in NYC: A Practical Guide (online)
free events nyc Murder on the Orient Express (1974): Classic Agatha Christie Murder Mystery
free events nyc Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022): period drama
free events nyc 1980's Comedy About Everyday Life
free events nyc Five Ukrainian Actors in a Multi-Genre Theater Piece with Talk-back
        

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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Birdwatching | Introduction to Birdwatching Walk


Whether you’re just starting out or have already joined the birding ranks, this introductory walk is for you. A member of the Brooklyn Bird Club and the Park Alliance lead an introductory walk to learn the basics of birding and search for the dozens of species that visit the Park through all seasons. All levels are welcome. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Please bring binoculars if you have them.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Park Walk | Words of Winter Walk


Winter is a season of reflection. The relative quiet and clarity have inspired poets for centuries. This is a short walk in the park, then you will take turns reading aloud some of the finest poems about winter, from W.S. Merwin, Mary Oliver, and more. You are welcome to bring a poem to share- and perhaps you will be inspired to write poems of your own.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Hike | Vigorous Super Hike


Urban Park Rangers will lead hikers through some of the hidden gems of the park on an 8-mile journey through diverse forests and ecosystems. Please wear comfortable walking shoes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Gallery Talk | Artists Talk: Shades of Daphne


Three artists included in the group exhibition Shades of Daphne for a discussion about how their work approaches the body's suspension in transitional states of nature. Through the lens of myth, culture, and history, this talk will trace their approaches to figuration through sensations of touch and sound. The panel will be moderated by Stephanie Cristello. A coffee reception is to follow the discussion alongside a performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Performance | Audience Participation Theater Experience


Guided by questions and prompts, audience members create a shared script together in A Thousand Ways, an entirely participatory theater experience. Obie Award-winning performance troupe 600 Highwaymen present A Thousand Ways (Part Three): An Assembly. The final experience of their triptych of encounters between strangers is an intimate reckoning -- of how small we are in the face of awesome natural forces, and of our mutual dependence. An Assembly tasks an audience of 16 strangers to reconstruct an evocative story of perseverance and ruin. This unique theatrical event tests the ways we arrange ourselves after so much time apart. This experience will be discovered and enacted by audience members in collaboration with each other. The instructions for the performance are written on notecards, and audience members read what is written on them. Written & Created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone 600 Highwaymen (Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone), are "standard bearers of contemporary theater-making" (Le Monde), who have "quietly been shaking up American theatre since 2009" (The Guardian). They are recipients of Switzerland's ZKB Patronize Prize, and their work has been nominated for two Bessie Awards, a Drama League Award, and Austria's Nestroy Prize. In 2016, Abigail and Michael were named artist fellows by the New York Foundation for the Arts and are currently Associate Artists of IN SITU, the European platform for artistic creation in public space.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Cello and Chamber Music by Haydn, Eccles, and More (In Person and Online)


Chamber Music Woodwind Quintet; accompanied by cello musicians under Robert Burkhart and John Popham. Program: Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974) La cheminée du roi René, Op. 205 Georg Goltermann (1824 - 1898) Cello Concerto No. 4, Op. 65 Henry Eccles (1670 - 1742) Largo and Allegro from Sonata in G minor Camille Saint-Saens (1835 - 1921) Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33 Camille Saint-Saens (1835 - 1921) Allegro appassionato, Op. 43 William Henry Squire (1871 - 1963) Tarantella Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809) Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | A Collaborative Poetry Reading and Open Mic 


The winner of Backbone Press's 4th Annual Chapbook Competition, Austin Sanchez-Moran, and runner-up, Chris Slaughter, give a joint presentation of recent work with audience open mic to follow. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Talk | Buying a Home in NYC: A Practical Guide (online)


Have you ever considered buying a condo, co-op or townhouse in NYC? Purchasing a home is a large financial decision--be an informed and savvy buyer. Join Cooper & Cooper Real Estate for an industry-leading educational talk on the ins-and-outs of the home buying process. This event offers an A-to-Z review of everything a would-be-buyer needs to know about purchasing an apartment in NYC. Cooper & Cooper breaks it down and explains all the elaborate and often confusing corners of the real estate market.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Dancer-Composer Team Performs Excerpts from 3 Works


Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance presents a showcase performances at the 2023 Association of Performing Arts Professionals conference. The showcase highlights the acclaimed climate-engaged collaboration between choreographer Sperling and composer Matthew Burtner. This timely program has been heralded as “a visually gorgeous evening of performance” with “a deeper level to discover” (Fjord Review).  The performance features excerpts of three works. In "Wind Rose," dancers render changing atmospheric patterns palpable to sight, sound, and touch. "Plastic Harvest" explores the proliferation of plastic pollution. Sperling’s solo "American Elm" considers the relationship between trees and people. The showcase will feature a conversation with Sperling about the work’s climate engagement.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Hike | Sensory Perception Hike


Engage your sense of touch, smell, sight, and hearing as you explore the natural world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Performance | Audience Participation Theater Experience


Guided by questions and prompts, audience members create a shared script together in A Thousand Ways, an entirely participatory theater experience. Obie Award-winning performance troupe 600 Highwaymen present A Thousand Ways (Part Three): An Assembly. The final experience of their triptych of encounters between strangers is an intimate reckoning -- of how small we are in the face of awesome natural forces, and of our mutual dependence. An Assembly tasks an audience of 16 strangers to reconstruct an evocative story of perseverance and ruin. This unique theatrical event tests the ways we arrange ourselves after so much time apart. This experience will be discovered and enacted by audience members in collaboration with each other. The instructions for the performance are written on notecards, and audience members read what is written on them. Written & Created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone 600 Highwaymen (Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone), are "standard bearers of contemporary theater-making" (Le Monde), who have "quietly been shaking up American theatre since 2009" (The Guardian). They are recipients of Switzerland's ZKB Patronize Prize, and their work has been nominated for two Bessie Awards, a Drama League Award, and Austria's Nestroy Prize. In 2016, Abigail and Michael were named artist fellows by the New York Foundation for the Arts and are currently Associate Artists of IN SITU, the European platform for artistic creation in public space.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Play | 1980's Comedy About Everyday Life


Enjoy The Bermuda Curse, a comedy by Johnny Culver about Peyton Place, horses wearing blankets, the Flushing train, grouchy Miss Rivas, John Wayne, Tom Jones and more set in the early 1980s. Since 2013, Equity Library Theater (ELT) has been presenting a festival of short plays (comedy, drama and musicals) by writers from around the globe. ELT began its life in 1943 as a sort of New York City road-show, with performances rotating among many theaters built during the Depression in branches of the New York Public Library. ELT won the Off-Broadway Theatre Tony Award twice, in 1953 and in 1977. Today they present their works for all to enjoy in-person and in a virtual setting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Film | Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022): period drama


The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the South of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Dir: Simon Curtis With Hugh Bonneville, Jim Carter, Michelle Dockery, Maggie Smith. 125 Min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Film | Murder on the Orient Express (1974): Classic Agatha Christie Murder Mystery


The film received six nominations at the 47th Academy Awards, with one winner: Best Actor (Finney), Best Supporting Actress (Bergman, winner), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, and Best Costume Design. In December 1935, when his transcontinental luxury train is stranded by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before, with a multitude of suspects. Dir: Sidney Lumet With Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, and Sean Connery. 128 Min. Rated PG. Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, (1890 - 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Film | CANCELLED!! The Long Goodbye (1973): Mystery Crime Thriller CANCELLED!!


Private investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam, but in doing so gets implicated in his wife's murder. Dir: Robert Altman. With Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden, Nina Van Pallandt, Jim Bouton, and Mark Rydell. 112 Min. Rated R.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945 (online)


A thought-provoking and original reassessment of World War II from Britain’s leading military historian. Dr. Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Opening Reception | From the Back Room: Group Show


Exhibiting Artists: Peter Agostini, Karel Appel, Mario Bencomo, Seymour Boardman, Peter Bonner, Ernest Briggs, James Brooks, Lawrence Calcagno, Nicolas Carone, Herman Cherry, Russell Connor, Nassos Daphnis, Amaranth Ehrenhalt, Agustín Fernández, Michiko Itatani, Buffie Johnson, William Manning, Clement Meadmore, Henri Michaux, Jeanne Miles, Leonard Nelson, Lorna Ritz, Richards Ruben, Anne Ryan, Aaron Siskind, Swoon and Marc Van Cauwenbergh.  
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Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: Ve-nus


Discussing an exhibition of works by the late Brazilian artist Tunga, organized by Brazilian art historian, curator, and writer Paulo Venancio Filho and Vivian Crockett, Curator of Contemporary Art at the New Museum.
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3:00 pm
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Performance | Audience Participation Theater Experience


Guided by questions and prompts, audience members create a shared script together in A Thousand Ways, an entirely participatory theater experience. Obie Award-winning performance troupe 600 Highwaymen present A Thousand Ways (Part Three): An Assembly. The final experience of their triptych of encounters between strangers is an intimate reckoning -- of how small we are in the face of awesome natural forces, and of our mutual dependence. An Assembly tasks an audience of 16 strangers to reconstruct an evocative story of perseverance and ruin. This unique theatrical event tests the ways we arrange ourselves after so much time apart. This experience will be discovered and enacted by audience members in collaboration with each other. The instructions for the performance are written on notecards, and audience members read what is written on them. Written & Created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone 600 Highwaymen (Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone), are "standard bearers of contemporary theater-making" (Le Monde), who have "quietly been shaking up American theatre since 2009" (The Guardian). They are recipients of Switzerland's ZKB Patronize Prize, and their work has been nominated for two Bessie Awards, a Drama League Award, and Austria's Nestroy Prize. In 2016, Abigail and Michael were named artist fellows by the New York Foundation for the Arts and are currently Associate Artists of IN SITU, the European platform for artistic creation in public space.
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3:00 pm
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Classical Music | Serene organ meditations in an intimate venue


Enjoy a program of hymns, anthems, and voluntaries for the organ.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Performance | Audience Participation Theater Experience


Guided by questions and prompts, audience members create a shared script together in A Thousand Ways, an entirely participatory theater experience. Obie Award-winning performance troupe 600 Highwaymen present A Thousand Ways (Part Three): An Assembly. The final experience of their triptych of encounters between strangers is an intimate reckoning -- of how small we are in the face of awesome natural forces, and of our mutual dependence. An Assembly tasks an audience of 16 strangers to reconstruct an evocative story of perseverance and ruin. This unique theatrical event tests the ways we arrange ourselves after so much time apart. This experience will be discovered and enacted by audience members in collaboration with each other. The instructions for the performance are written on notecards, and audience members read what is written on them. Written & Created by Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone 600 Highwaymen (Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone), are "standard bearers of contemporary theater-making" (Le Monde), who have "quietly been shaking up American theatre since 2009" (The Guardian). They are recipients of Switzerland's ZKB Patronize Prize, and their work has been nominated for two Bessie Awards, a Drama League Award, and Austria's Nestroy Prize. In 2016, Abigail and Michael were named artist fellows by the New York Foundation for the Arts and are currently Associate Artists of IN SITU, the European platform for artistic creation in public space.
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4:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Park Joon: America, the Beautiful View from an Outsider


Creating a landscape image in modern art today can be dismissed as a cliche, and it may seem like a work of regret for the love that has already left, but the artist, Park Joon is a photographer who can’t stop recording the world in nature. He embarked on over 40 cross-country journeys with his small and old car and endured the pain and loneliness as an outsider but poured his passion into his work. His work is focused in the beauty of the United States, where he lived as an immigrant capturing for future generation. Park Joon, who realized the power to observe things, the ability to find positive beauty, the awe of nature, and love, conformity, and communication through photography. It is said that he learned everything from photography, the power to record it in order to inform society, and the humbleness in dealing with nature and people. Preceded by an artist's talk at 4:30pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Vocal Group Performance


Enjoy a fusion of influences from Cuban timba and rumba; Puerto Rican bomba and plena; Haitian kompa; Brazilian MPB; and American soul, R&B, and hip-hop. People of Earth is a 13-piece, global-music supergroup that is quickly emerging as one of the most exciting Latin and tropical bands in the US. The ensemble has performed at The Kennedy Center and Walt Disney Concert Hall, and now New Yorkers can hear the group for themselves.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Steven Balogh: Mystery of Love


The exhibition showcases the works of Steven Balogh, including paintings, prints, drawings, photos, performances and three-dimensional artworks that are the visual representations of chaos. In his own words, "the paroxysm of turbulence…can be the metaphor of art; the art might be nothing else than formulation of chaos."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina: Exhibition Tour (online thru Feb. 5)


Co-curators Adrienne Spinozzi, Associate Curator in The American Wing at The Met; Ethan Lasser, John Moors Cabot Chair of the Art of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and Jason Young, Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, give a virtual tour of the exhibition. Focusing on the work of African American potters in the 19th-century American South—in dialogue with contemporary artistic responses—the exhibition presents approximately 50 ceramic objects from Old Edgefield District, South Carolina, a center of stoneware production in the decades before the Civil War. Hear Me Now will include monumental storage jars by enslaved and literate potter and poet David Drake alongside rare examples of the region’s utilitarian wares, as well as enigmatic face vessels whose makers were unrecorded. Considered through the lens of current scholarship in the fields of history, literature, anthropology, material culture, diaspora, and African American studies, these 19th-century vessels testify to the lived experiences, artistic agency, and material knowledge of enslaved peoples.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Theater | Five Ukrainian Actors in a Multi-Genre Theater Piece with Talk-back


Mothermotherland is a devised performance that explores motherhood, motherland, and Ukrainian and American experience through the lens of Mykola Khyvylovy's 1924 autobiographical short story "I am (a Romantic)", which tells of a head of secret police who must decide whether or not to execute his own mother in order to protect his political ideals. The Slovo Theater Group was established in April 2022 through a grant enabling 5 Ukrainian artists from Kharkiv to join playwright Audrey Rose Degez for a 5-month artistic residency to develop the piece.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Classical Music | Orchestral Pieces by Mozart, Mahler, and Ligeti (In Person and Online)


Tengku Irfan, Conductor. Program: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385  Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911) Symphony No. 3 Gyorgy Ligeti (1923 - 2006) Concert Românesc (Romanian Concerto)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Lecture | Trailblazing Chinese American Actress Anna May Wong (online)


History was made on Oct. 24, 2022 when for the first time the image of an Asian American appeared on United States currency. This distinct honor goes to Anna May Wong, a groundbreaking actress in the 20th century during the rise of the film industry and a champion for Asian American representation in film. Born in 1905, Anna May Wong was the granddaughter of a Chinese immigrant. Growing up in Los Angeles, she found herself at the epicenter of a nascent Hollywood film industry, with productions setting up equipment in her neighborhood. Film roles followed, though opportunities were limited by the ethnic stereotyping common at the time. Despite those barriers, Wong had a storied career, becoming the first Asian American actor to get top billing in a Hollywood production (Toll of the Sea) in 1922 and even founding her own production company, Anna May Wong Productions. A year before she died at the age of 56 in 1961, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in recognition of her advocacy for greater representation of Asian Americans in Hollywood and cinematic achievements. To better understand Anna May Wong’s extraordinary life and career, this is a lecture by Dr. Yu Juan. Yu will present Wong’s life in general, and her visit back to China in 1936 in particular. Yu will illustrate her talk with rare film footage of Anna May Wong in China.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Classical Music | Piano Works by Beethoven, Liszt, and More (In Person and Online)


Szuyu Su, Piano. Program: Franz Lizst (1811 - 1886) Liebesträume No. 3 (Love Dream) Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110 Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953) Piano Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op. 82 Fritz Kreisler (1875 - 1962) Liebesleid (Love's Sorrow)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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Classical Music | Violin Works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Ernst (In Person and Online)


Juchao Zhao, Violin. Program: Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 78 Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1812 - 1865) Grand Caprice sur 'Le Roi des Aulnes', Op. 26
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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Concert | Sidemen for Cassandra Wilson, Living Colour, Lou Reed, Herbie Hancock, and Sting in Concert 


The musical collective Harriet Tubman plays a fusion of soul, rock, jazz, blues, and avant-garde. Brandon Ross, guitar/vocals; Melvin Gibbs, bass; JT Lewis, drums. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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