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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 30, 2019?

31 free events take place on Saturday, March 30 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 March 30 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 March . 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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31 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Saturday, March 30, 2019

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free events nyc Day Long Piano Concert
free events nyc East Village Sights and Sounds Tour
free events nyc Bohemian Rhapsody (2018): The Story Of Queen and Freddy Mercury
free events nyc Works By Handel, Brahms, Schubert And More
free events nyc Third Eye Film Festival: Short Films that Delve into Spiritual and Supernatural Realms.
free events nyc Works By Tchaikovsky, Bellini And More For Violin
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Conference | Gardening Conference


An event by NYC Parks GreenThumb to celebrate the 35th annual GrowTogether Conference and kick-off the New York City community gardening season! The day will be packed with workshops on garden related topics and activities including a seed swap (bring your seeds to share!), kids’ activities, vegetable growing techniques, and new lunchtime meetups and intensives. Gardeners who bring their hydrant letter from GreenThumb may be eligible to get their hydrant permit from DEP on the spot! This year's GrowTogether Conference will feature a keynote address by Onika Abraham, the director of Farm School NYC, which offers adults comprehensive, professional training in sustainable agriculture that is grounded in social and food justice.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
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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
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Open Level Vinyasa Yoga


Calm your senses by starting your weekend on your mat with an open level Vinyasa flow class. This gentle paced yoga practice is focused on linking your breath with your movements to help you build focus, strength, and flexibility. Instructor Mai Ling is a certified yoga instructor that has additional certification in prenatal and restorative yoga. Her classes are designed to be assessable to everyone and to bring peace and wellness into life. Please bring your own mat, towels, and water to each class.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Book Club | Death by Darjeeling: Cozy Fun and Clever Plotting


When a man is poisoned by tea, Theo is the prime suspect. Now she has to prove her innocence and track down the real killer-before someone else takes their last sip. Just the right blend of cozy fun and clever plotting. This is a discussion of Laura Childs' book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Symposium | Best of the Boroughs: Staten Island Day


A five-part series celebrating the contributions, communities, histories, cultures, music, and food of each of New York City’s five boroughs. This multi-day festival is offered in conjunction with the exhibition Made in New York City: The Business of Folk Art. Staten Island Day Activities: 1 pm  Families and Folk Art: New York City—Then and Now 2 pm  Closer-Look Tour 3 pm  Gallery talk with Victoria Munro, executive director, Alice Austen House. A special family scavenger hunt will be available all day long.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Concert | Day Long Piano Concert


A day long event featuring piano artists, there will be concerts at 12:00 pm, 2:00 pm, 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm. Featuring Olga Gurevich, Roberto Hidalgo, Anna Khanina, Mina Kusumoto, Allison Lander, Nuno Marques, Tim McCullough, Judith Olson, Marc Peloquin, Monica Verona. About The Performers Pianist Mina Kusumoto has given concerts each season in many world wide venues, such as Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Yamaha Salon in NY, Tokyo Metropolitan Arts Hall, Minatomirai Hall in Japan, Oxford Town Hall, and Jacqueline De Prez Memorial Hall in the United Kingdum. Pianist Olga Gurevich has appeared at Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall, 92nd Street Y and more. She collaborated with Manhattan Symphonie, Richmond County orchestra, New York Session Symphony orchestra and performed as a member of numerous chamber music ensembles. Roberto Hidalgo has performed at The Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center, Weill Concert Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Bargemusic, Town Hall, Los Angeles Country Museum, Collegial Saint-Julien en Tournon, Roubaix Cultural Center in France, Eafit University in Medellín and most forums in Mexico City such as Sala Nezahualcoyotl, Sala Carlos Chávez, Sala Ponce, Auditorio Blas Galindo and Anfiteatro Simón Bolívar. New York Times hailed pianist Marc Peloquin's "energetic approach" and described his performances as "refreshing and alive". His appearances have taken him from the Palacio de Belles Artes in Mexico City, the American Academy in Rome, Germany's Darmstadt Festival and the Cultural Center of Roubaix, France, to Merkin Concert Hall, the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and Bargemusic.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Film | Angelique's Isle (2018): Time To Remember What Grandma Told


Based on a true story that occurred during the copper rush of 1845, Angelique, a young Anishinaabe woman and her French-Canadian voyageur husband Charlie find themselves left for dead on Lake Superior’s Isle Royale by a corrupt Detroit copper hunter. As hunger sets in, Angelique – a devout Christian – struggles with her faith and must rely on the teachings she received from her shamanic grandmother in order to survive the harsh winter. 90 min. Directors: Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Michelle Derosier. Starring Julia Jones, Tantoo Cardinal, Aden Young.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Film | Kin (2018): Science Fiction Crime Drama Starring James Franco


Chased by a vengeful criminal, the feds and a gang of otherworldly soldiers, a recently released ex-con, and his adopted teenage brother are forced to go on the run with a weapon of mysterious origin as their only protection. 102 min. Directors: Jonathan Baker, Josh Baker. Starring Myles Truitt, Jack Reynor, Dennis Quaid.  As of September 19, 2018, Kin has grossed $5.7 million in the United States and Canada, and $4.3 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $10 million.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Play | Balm in Gilead: Exiles on the Upper West Side


Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead takes place in 1966 in Frank's Cafe, an all-night coffee shop on Manhattan's Upper West Side peopled by a makeshift community of dealers, junkies, hustlers, prostitutes, dreamers and runaways. One of the milestones of the dynamic Off-Off-Broadway theatre movement, this vivid and powerful play, first produced by La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, illuminates the bleak and terrifying world of young exiles and outcasts in New York's upper Broadway area. A student production.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Bohemian Rhapsody (2018): The Story Of Queen and Freddy Mercury


The story of the legendary rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985). 134 min. Director: Bryan Singer. Starring Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee. Bohemian Rhapsody has five nominations at the 91st Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Malek, it also won Best Motion Picture – Drama at the 76th Golden Globe Awards. As of 14 February 2019, Bohemian Rhapsody has grossed $210.9 million in the United States and Canada, and $635 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $845.9 million, against a production budget of about $52 million.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Film | Fences (2016): Oscar Winning Drama By Denzel Washington


A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life. 139 min. Starring Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen McKinley Henderson. The film was chosen by the American Film Institute as one of the top ten films of 2016, and was nominated for numerous awards, including four Oscar nominations at the 89th Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (Washington), Best Supporting Actress (Davis) and Best Adapted Screenplay, with Davis winning for her performance. It also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor for Washington and a Best Supporting Actress win for Davis.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Made in New York City: The Business of Folk Art: Exhibition Tour


Folk art has flourished in the heart of New York City since the eighteenth century, contrary to popular belief that it was a rural genre that reflected local tastes, traditions, and needs. Around 100 works of art by self-taught artists tell the story about New York City as the center of America’s financial and commercial world from two perspectives simultaneously: “The Art of Business” portrays the people and places that were part of the city’s thrumming commercial life, and “The Business of Art” highlights the diverse mediums and formats used by the artists, artisans, and manufacturers. This tour of the exhibition is conducted by museum gallery guides.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | The Mambo Kings (1992) With Antonio Banderas: Oscar Nominated Drama Of Two Musician Brothers 


Two Cuban brothers bring a new music to the 1950s USA. They are as different as the problems that await them. 104 min. Director: Arne Glimcher. Starring Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas, Pablo Calogero.  The Mambo Kings received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations in Best Original Song categories. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018): Secret Of An Ex-Boyfriend


Audrey and Morgan are best friends who unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one of the women discovers the boyfriend who dumped her was actually a spy. 117 min. Director: Susanna Fogel. Starring Justin Theroux, Blanka Györfi-Tóth, Vilma Szécsi. The Spy Who Dumped Me grossed $33.6 million in the United States and Canada, and $41.7 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $75.3 million, against a production budget of $40 million.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Discussion | Double Lives: Writers Who Translate


Festival Neue Literatur's signature translation event returns and pays homage to writers who translate and translators who write. It spotlights storytellers who seamlessly move between genres and languages as writers and literary translators, in an exploration of the connections between these forms of writing and how both are inspired, informed, and complicated by occupying a place between languages. Featuring Idra Novey, John Keene, and Jennifer Croft. Moderated by Karen Phillips of Words Without Borders.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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City Walk | East Village Sights and Sounds Tour


Downtown Manhattan's East Village is one of NYC's most beloved neighborhood's for good reason--it's home to one of the world's most renown centers of architectural study, a 163 year old bar, was the center of the punk rock scene and Nuyorican literary movement, and even holds a cemetery where a President was once buried. This walking tour showcases the the rich history of a neighborhood that means so much to so many.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Learn The Key Elements Of Job Search


Speaker, trainer, and certified professional coach, Barbara Phillips, will help you get greater clarity on key elements of the job search process and explain key tools for finding a “best fit” job. You will learn: Key elements of an effective job search strategy The importance of “knowing yourself”: strengths, passions and values Tips for defining and communicating "your brand" Research and networking strategies Tips on designing a high-impact resume The workshop will be highly interactive and there will be time for Q’s and A’s to address participants’ specific needs. Coach Barbara Phillips helps people navigate the career transition process leveraging her Human Resources and Organization Development experience in world-class organizations. She guides and supports individuals at the early career, mid-career and encore career stages.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Visual Artist And Writer


Conversation with Ciarán Finlayson and Hannah Black. Hannah Black is a conceptual visual artist and writer. Her work spans video, text and performance and draws on communist, feminist, and afropessimist theory, autobiographical fragments, and pop music Hannah Black’s video installation, Beginning, End, None, takes the cell, the building block of all living organisms, as its starting point. Questioning the classic analogy of the cell as “factory,” Black explores the ideological aura of this comparison, which implicitly naturalizes the factory and commodifies the cell. Using found, personal, and laboratory footage, Black explores the leakiness of metaphoric and real transmissions between concepts of biology and society. Writer and cultural worker Ciarán Finlayson graduated from the MA in Aesthetics & Art Theory at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London with a dissertation on Adorno's Aesthetic Theory and philosophy of history. Prior to that he studied Art History, Contemporary Critical Theory & African American Studies at Bard College.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Classical Music | Works By Handel, Brahms, Schubert And More


The Con Brio Ensemble Alexander Meshibovsky, violin; Osceola Davis, soprano; Gary Dranch, clarinet; and Diana Mittler-Battipaglia, piano. Program Handel Arias for Soprano, Violin, and Piano Brahms Violin Sonata, Op. 78 and Scherzo Schubert Shepherd on the Rock Shostakovich Five Pieces for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano Works by Rachmaninoff and Paganini for violin and piano.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:30 pm
Free

Workshop | Bottle Painting


On recycled bottles students will learn to draw and transfer their image to glass. This mixed media bottle painting class will focus on basic painting technique, the use of space and dimension, shapes and patterns, and visual storytelling. This time students will be specifically taught how to paint a Birch Tree Trunk on paper and then transfer it to glass. At the end of the course there will be an exhibit to celebrate the students' works of self-expression. Please note that students should bring their own recycled bottle for this workshop.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Concert | Celebration Of Women's Voices


Sheri Miller performs for a celebration of women's voices in music. Singer-songwriter Sheri Miller composes and plays heartfelt, soulful, Beatles-inspired songs, while accompanying herself on guitar and piano. She also enjoys performing a wide repertoire of cover songs of the Beatles, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash and Judy Garland, among many others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | The Perversity of Technique: Exhibition Walkthrough


Jarrett Earnest will lead a walkthrough of the exhibition, along with Roger Danilo Carmona, artist and general manager of Kremer Pigments in New York, who will discuss the specific materials and techniques of the artworks.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Classical Music | Afternoon Organ Meditations


Diverse programs of music celebrating the great repertoire of the organ. Takes place every Saturday and Sunday from September 9, 2018 to May 26, 2019.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: Landscape Archetypes and Romantic Conceptions of Nature


Claire Sherman’s work engages landscape archetypes and Romantic conceptions of nature, including the sublime. Distorting scale and perspective, her oversized paintings of forests, caves, rocks, and trees evoke both specific locations and abstracted, ubiquitous environments. She was recently included in the exhibition American Genre: Contemporary Painting at the ICA at Maine College of Art, curated by Michelle Grabner. Sherman has exhibited widely throughout the United States and in Amsterdam, Leipzig, London, Seoul, and Turin and has completed residencies at the Terra Foundation for American Art in Giverny, the MacDowell Colony, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace program, the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, Yaddo, and the Albers Foundation. In conversation with Melissa Messina.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | 'Woolrich Noir' and the B Film


Of all the writers to transition from pulp magazines to noir movies, Cornell Woolrich was by far the most prolific and most influential. From 1940 to 1954, the heyday of “classic” film noir, Hollywood based 18 films on Woolrich properties, with over 70 radio dramas produced during the same period and the beginnings of an equally abundant crop of television adaptations that would continue into the early 1960s. Focusing in particular on low-budget and independent thrillers, this talk places film adaptations of Woolrich's work in the context of the industrial, stylistic, and narrative practices of B-picture Hollywood.   Lecturer: Frank Krutnik, University of Sussex  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:15 pm
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Screening | Third Eye Film Festival: Short Films that Delve into Spiritual and Supernatural Realms.


Founded by Rhode Island School of Design alumnae perpetually in pursuit of the unknown, Third Eye Film Festival connects an international community of visionary filmmakers who explore ‘otherworldly’ stories. TEFF is proud to amplify the voices of marginalized artists. The official selection of TEFF 2019 celebrates filmmakers whose concepts live at the frontiers of innovation and revolution. Twenty-four of the 29 films in the festival are made by women directors or cinematographers—more than 80% of the program.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Play | Balm in Gilead: Exiles on the Upper West Side


Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead takes place in 1966 in Frank's Cafe, an all-night coffee shop on Manhattan's Upper West Side peopled by a makeshift community of dealers, junkies, hustlers, prostitutes, dreamers and runaways. One of the milestones of the dynamic Off-Off-Broadway theatre movement, this vivid and powerful play, first produced by La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, illuminates the bleak and terrifying world of young exiles and outcasts in New York's upper Broadway area. A student production.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Screening | Documentary: Warrior Women (2018): Life Of An American Indian Activist


A documentary which details the life of Lakota activist and community organizer Madonna Thunder Hawk, whose career fighting for Indigenous and women's rights has now spanned over 50 years. 64 min. Directors: Elizabeth Castle (co-director), Christina D. King (co-director). 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Pre-Concert Dicussion: Miles Davis’ Electric Period


This discussion explores Miles Davis’ “electric period”— one of the most influential and passionately debated eras in all of modern music. Miles Davis was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Vocal Recitals


Annie Shikany, director. William Woodward, piano. Annie Shikany has directed Così fan tutte for Opera Cooperative, Cavalleria Rusticana for North Shore Music Festival, New York Lyric Opera’s Gala Concert at Carnegie Hall, as well as scenes from The Leopard (music by Michael Dellaira and libretto by J. D. McClatchy) and from Vera (music by Matthew Barnson and libretto by Mark Sonnenblick) for Page to Stage, produced in partnership with American Opera Projects and Manhattan School of Music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Classical Music | Works By Tchaikovsky, Bellini And More For Violin


Susie Park, violin. Program Bellini Sinfonia to "Norma" Hovhaness Symphony No. 2 ("Mysterious Mountain") Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Violinist Susie Park is gaining worldwide recognition for her emotive range and dynamic stage presence. Recent performances of note for the musician include Mozart’s Sinfonie Concertante with Jaime Laredo and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in Alice Tully Hall, New York, recitals in Jordan Hall and the Gardner Museum in Boston and appearances in venues including Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the 92nd St.Y in New York, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Centre and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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