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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 4, 2020?

36 free events take place on Wednesday, March 4 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 4 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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36 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, March 4, 2020

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free events nyc Bach at Noon
free events nyc Propaganda: The Art of Political Indoctrination in Italy, 1902-1950
free events nyc Artist Talk: Amplifying Reality Through a Strategy of Magical Realism and Humor
free events nyc Chopin's Piano Works
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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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Film | Harriet (2019): Two Time Oscar Nominated Biographical Movie On The Legendary Abolitionist 


The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history. 125 min. Director: Kasi Lemmons. Starring Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn. Harriet got two Academy Award nominations  for Best Original Song and Best Actress.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Film | The Cheat (1931): Woman In Debt Making A Wrong Investment


Woman in debt makes an impulsive investment which doesn't go her way. 74 min. Directors: George Abbott, Berthold Viertel. Starring Tallulah Bankhead, Harvey Stephens, Irving Pichel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Tour | City Hall Tour For Individuals


The tour of City Hall includes a discussion of the building's history, art, architecture, and civic function. The building is the oldest city hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions, such as the office of the Mayor of New York. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, New York City Hall is a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Piano And Violin Recital


Akiko Kobayashi, violin; Eric Siepkes, piano. Violinist Akiko Kobayashi performs both solo and chamber music. She has appeared as a soloist with the West Islip Symphony Orchestra, Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo Suginami Kokaido Chamber Orchestra. Her recital appearances include Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Steinway Hall, Cathedral of St. John among others. Pianist Eric Siepkes has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and more. He has played in chamber music master classes for London Baroque, the Avalon String Quartet, and the Eroica Trio.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon


The organ works of J.S. Bach (1685-1750) offered in 30-minute meditations. Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations as well as for vocal music such as the St. Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. "The term 'baroque' has been widely used since the 19th century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750... Many famous composers from the first part of the baroque period came from Italy and have a link with Venice, including Claudio Monteverdi and Antonio Vivaldi. Monteverdi was born in Cremona, but moved to Venice where he was 'maestro di capella' at the San Marco basilica. Vivaldi was born in Venice and was one of the greatest baroque composers. It is thanks to these strong musical traditions of Venice that we have today's music. Without Venetian church music and Monteverdi's advances with polyphony, the great traditions of choral music in England, France, and Germany would never have developed. Without the operas written by Monteverdi, Cavalli and Vivaldi, not only would the later styles of opera never have been invented. There would be no basis for the American Musical or the German and Viennese Operetta, the Spanish Zarzuela, and even rock, pop, and contemporary music as we know it." The Venice Insider Bach at Noon concerts take place every Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 10, 2019 to May 20, 2020.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:20 pm
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Workshop | Battery Park City Adult Chorus


Directed by Church Street School for Music and Art, the BPC Chorus is open to all adults who love to sing. Learn a mix of contemporary and classic songs, and perform at community events throughout the year.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | E-file Tax Assistance


You can prepare and file your tax return electronically with some help from a tax assistant...all for free. To participate in this free program, you must: Have a valid e-mail address and basic computer skills Bring all necessary documentation and information
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Guided Historical Tour of the Columbia University Campus


Join this tour to learn more about the history, architecture, and sculpture of Columbia and the Morningside Heights campus. Whether you're an amateur New York City historian or visiting campus for the first time, you will leave the tour knowing more about our storied past. Given that the tour route is outdoors, please be aware that tours are occasionally suspended due to inclement weather.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Lunchtime Meditation


Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | The Art of Healing Objects


Led by Studio Museum teaching artist Aya Rodriguez-Izumi, participants will discover ways art can be used to breathe new life into old objects. Inspired by the on view exhibition Dozie Kanu: Function, this workshop will begin with a gallery tour followed by discussion and art-making. Participants are encouraged to bring in an object like a torn item of clothing or a damaged coffee mug. Additional objects and art supplies will be provided.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Dark Passage (1947): Crime Thriller With Humphrey Bogart


A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence. Director: Delmer Daves. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett. Dark Passage is based on the 1946 novel of the same name by David Goodis.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Jazz | Renowned Jazz Guitarist and His Trio


Bill Wurtzel, a renowned jazz guitarist, has performed worldwide with many jazz greats. His style in his own words: "I love mainstream jazz and the American songbook. Albums I've played on range from gospel, mainstream and soul jazz to Christmas songs in Latin."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Conference | Jewish Survival and Rescue in Occupied France


In Nazi-occupied France, nearly 75% of French Jews were able to survive the Holocaust despite the complicity of the Vichy government with the German authorities. This can be explained by the implementation of rescue networks by the Jews themselves, with the help of the population in certain “refuge” regions. This two-day conference is part of “France and Judaism: 2,000 Years of Intertwined History,” a series organized by the Consulate General of France in New York.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Talk | Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms


Jonathan M. Metzl of Vanderbilt University addresses four assumptions that frequently arise in the aftermath of mass-shootings in the United States: (1) that mental illness causes gun violence, (2) that a psychiatric diagnosis can predict gun crime before it happens, (3) that shootings are the deranged acts of mentally ill loners, and (4) that gun control won’t prevent another Newtown. Each of these statements is certainly true in particular instances. Yet notions of mental illness that emerge in relation to mass shootings frequently reflect larger cultural stereotypes and anxieties about matters such as race, social class, and politics. These issues become obscured when mass shootings come to stand in for all gun crime and when “mentally ill” ceases to be a medical designation and becomes a sign of violent threat. He will also speak about his most recent book, Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
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Screening | Cloud in Pants: A Video-Poem


In 1915 Vladimir Mayakovsky shocked the Russian poetry scene with his epic poem “Cloud in Pants.” One hundred years later, Vadim Astrakhan has not only translated the poem into English in his trademark “modernizing / universalizing” fashion, but also put it on film. In this film he recites the poem in both Russian and English against a vibrant and unique visual background that conveys the spirit of the Russian Avant-garde. Vadim Astrakhan is a translator and performer from New Jersey.  He is known for his “Vysotsky in English” project, for which he produced English translations of four full length Vladimir Vysotsky albums and played over 80 shows worldwide, including at Stanford, MIT, Carnegie-Mellon, and here at NYU in March of 2016. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Discussion | Identity, Equity, and Access in the Orchestral World


A conversation that will explore current approaches and future ideas for how administrators, musicians, and audiences might combat inequities and foster inclusion within the orchestral world. With: -- Deborah Borda, President and CEO of the New York Philharmonic -- Tania Leon, Composer and Conductor -- Matthew D. Morrison, Assistant Professor in the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, Tisch School of the Arts
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | Avec le goût: Poking Fun at Taste and Erudition


A solo show of new works by French artist Louis Granet (b. 1991, Bordeaux; lives and works in Paris). The phrase "Avec le goût" is grammatically incorrect in French. The correct way to write this expression is “Avec du goût,” which translates to “having good taste”. Granet makes this phrase purposely awkward to poke fun at notions of taste and erudition in music, fashion and the art world.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Forms of Souls: Golden Pigments


An exhibition of new work by New York-based artist Katsura Okada of new paintings of golden pigments on handmade paper, wooden panel and paper installations. This exhibition is a continuation of the artist’s ongoing exploration into golden tiny dots expanding to the overall of shows nature designing abstraction and organic forms. The artist utilizing powdered golden pigments, natural liquid adhesive on handmade paper, wooden panel and paper installations and she is painting countless golden tiny dots by brush.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Grey Matter: Nonrepresentational Photography


How does one quantify or describe the experience of nonrepresentational, nonfigurative photography consisting only of gradient forms and geometric patterns — the kind of abstraction afforded traditionally to painters and sculptors? Betsy Kenyon’s ongoing exploration of both traditional and invented darkroom techniques engenders the experience of form itself. The work plays with dimension, depth, and perspective, and suggests values of minimalism and psychedelia, free of literal subject matter, narrative, or statement.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Propaganda: The Art of Political Indoctrination in Italy, 1902-1950


A documentary exhibition that investigates the inner workings of propaganda through the lens of 20th century Italian politics. Its focus is on fascism, with works from the two decades of Mussolini's dictatorial government (1922-1943, followed by two additional years at the helm of the Italian Social Republic, a Nazi puppet-state in northern Italy), plus select pieces from the edges of this period that help contextualize the exhibition. The exhibition illustrates how fascist political propaganda coopted modernist aesthetics, mass communication, marketing techniques, and popular culture to manipulate society and muster support for its totalitarian endeavors. Considered together, the propaganda emerging from fascism, as well as from the particularly tense democratic times surrounding the fascist period, provide an opportunity to deconstruct the rhetoric of political communication in its entirety, and represent a call to engage critically with the multitude of competing political narratives that surround us today. 6:00pm Exhibition viewing 6:30pm Panel Discussion featuring the curator and advisors 7:30pm Reception
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Spy Sites of New York City: A Guide to the Region's Secret History


Through every era of American history, New York City has been a battleground for international espionage, where secrets are created, stolen, and passed through clandestine meetings and covert communications. Some spies do their work and escape, while others are compromised, imprisoned, and―a few―executed. H. Keith Melton and Robert Wallace take you inside this shadowy world and reveal the places where it all happened.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | The Lost Paradise: New Paintings


Recent works by Swedish painter Mamma Andersson.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | A Need for Control? Political Trust and Public Preferences for Asylum


Europeans want to protect refugees, but they prefer a policy approach that sets limits and conditions. Welcome Dr. Martin Ruhs, Chair in Migration Studies and Deputy Director of the Migration Policy Centre at the European University Institute. This talk will provide the first-ever analysis of the structure of public preferences for asylum and refugee policy in Europe, a highly politicized policy area that has attracted little scholarly attention to date.    
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Cryptocurrency Blockchains as Platforms


This lecture proposes the economic use of blockchains for cooperatives. First, Caliskan introduces distributed ledgers such as blockchain to then depict the evolution of blockchain architecture. Second, it describes how blockchains are depicted in white papers about cryptocurrencies. Third, it discusses the social and economic consequences of blockchains by proposing a taxonomy of blockchain digital architectures. Defining cryptocurrency as data money and locating cryptocurrency ownership as the possession of an exclusive right to move data privately in a public space, the lecture ends with a discussion of the potential of blockchains for platform co-ops. Speaker Koray Caliskan is Associate Professor of Strategic Design and Management in the School of Design Strategies.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Decolonial Aesthetics: Feminist Responses to Occupation


This roundtable places in conversation feminist scholars, artists, and activists broadly engaged in the project of decolonial aesthetics in the context of military occupation in Kashmir and Palestine. They seek to think through the resonances between these two sites both in terms of regimes of violence and dispossession, but also in terms of modes of resistance, particularly in the form of poetry and performance as responses to state terror. Featured participants: Sameetah Agha, Social Science & Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute Layal Ftouni, CSGS Visiting Scholar & Graduate Gender Programme, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Samar Haddad King, Founding and Artistic Director, Yaa Samar! Dance Theater Ather Zia, Anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | NY StartUP! 2020 Workshop 4: Pitching Your Plan


Learn how to present your business plan to potential investors.  This is the 4th training workshop for the New York StartUP! 2020 Business Plan Competition. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Seeing Data: A Conversation on Visualization


Speakers: -- Betsy Mason is a freelance journalist and the author of All Over the Map: A Cartographic Odyssey. -- Enrico Bertini teaches, studies, and produces data visualizations at the Tandon School of Engineering. -- Moderator Robert Lee Hotz is a science writer at The Wall Street Journal and a Distinguished Writer in Residence.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Counting New York: The City and the Census


Archivists, policy makers, and scholars discuss the historical and contemporary challenges to representing all New Yorkers in the federal census. Featuring: Amit S. Bagga, Deputy Director of the NYC Census 2020 Office Ian Fowler, Geospatial Librarian, The New York Public Library Ross Perlin, Co-Director, Endangered Language Alliance Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, geographer, writer, and co-author of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas With nearly 8.5 million people speaking almost 700 languages, New York is a city that the federal census struggles to fully and accurately represent. In 2020 city officials warn of undercounting, but the problem isn’t new—as far back as 1890 concerns with undercounting were so powerful that the city decided to take matters into its own hands and count its citizens itself. What is the history of New York’s census woes, and, as we undertake to be counted once again in 2020, what are the current challenges we face? How has the census failed to capture our breadth and diversity in the past, and what efforts are being made now to ensure that counting New Yorkers ensures the representation we deserve?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | 2 New Books: Mycelium / Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York


In Annette Weisser's Mycelium, a novel set against a transforming Berlin, an artist confronts a diagnosis of breast cancer. Natasha Stagg's Sleeveless features essays and stories on fashion, art, and culture in the New York of the 2010s.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business


Welcome New York Times economics writer, Nelson D. Schwartz, who will be discussing his new book, a gripping investigation of how a virtual velvet rope divides Americans in every arena of life, creating a friction-free existence for those with money on one side and a Darwinian struggle for the middle class on the other.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Artist Talk: Amplifying Reality Through a Strategy of Magical Realism and Humor


Meriem Bennani (b. 1988 in Rabat, Morocco) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Juxtaposing and mixing the language of reality TV, documentaries, phone footage, animation, and high production aesthetics, she explores the potential of storytelling while amplifying reality through a strategy of magical realism and humor. She has been developing a shape-shifting practice of films, installations and immersive environments, composed with a subtle agility to question our contemporary society and its fractured identities, gender issues and ubiquitous dominance of digital technologies. Bennani's work has been shown at MoMA PS1, Art Dubai, the Shanghai Biennale, The Jewish Museum and The Kitchen in New York.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Book Club | Book Club: Once More to the Rodeo


In search of answers, author Calvin Hennick takes his son on the road, traveling across the country to the annual rodeo in his small Iowa hometown: How can he teach his son to be a man, when his own father figures abandoned him? As a white man, what can he possibly teach his biracial son about how to live as a black man in America?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | What Can Culture Do? French Cultural Policy as Model


A lecture by Laurence Engel, who was appointed President of the National Library of France (Bibliothèque nationale de France) and took up her post on April 11, 2016.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Chopin's Piano Works


Katarzyna Popowa-Zydron, piano. Program Chopin (1810-1849) Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 35 1. Grave - Doppio movimento Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54 Selected Preludes, Op. 28 Pianist Katarzyna Popowa-Zydron gave concerts in Polish philharmonic halls as well as in Germany, the Czech Republic, Russia, Bulgaria, Austria and Japan. She has been decorated by the Medal of the Commission of National Education (2004), Medal for Merit to Culture - Gloria Artis (2005) and the Order of Polonia Restituta's Officer's Cross (2005).
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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Concert | Convergences Concert


Program: Tania León: One Mo' Time John Glover: new song cycle with vocalist Blythe Gaissart based on Dana Spiotta's novel Eat The Document Caterina di Cecca: La verità ricurva Luciano Berio: Folk Songs With: Ensemble Échappé
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