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34 free events take place on Friday, November 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 November 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 November . 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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34 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, November 4, 2022

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free events nyc Ukraine in North America: Diaspora Activism, Academic Initiatives (in-person and online)
free events nyc Sarasvati's Gift: The Art & Life of a Modern Buddhist Revolutionary
free events nyc An Evening of Original Songs for Jazz Quartet
free events nyc The Music of Michael Cochrane (In Person and Online)
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Workshop | Tai Chi


Improve balance, strength and focus through gentle exercises. The sights and sounds of the river provide a serene background for the ancient flowing postures.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 am
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Conference | Ukraine in North America: Diaspora Activism, Academic Initiatives (in-person and online)


The international conference will gather scholars from the United States, Canada, and Ukraine to focus on different waves of immigration from Ukraine to North America and on the organizational and political activity of these individuals, chiefly their establishment of Ukrainian studies in their new homelands. Having helped incorporate Ukraine as a subject of discussion at academic institutions in the U.S. and Canada, the diaspora has now itself become the subject of scholarly analysis in contemporary Ukraine. Among the topics to be examined during the conference: new approaches in defining the Ukrainian diaspora; the political engagement of the diaspora during the twentieth century and today; the role of libraries and archives in the establishment of Ukrainian studies institutions in North America; and various avenues of study of the Ukrainian diaspora in today's Ukraine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 am
Free

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 | Have a Conversation with a Career Coach


Meet a career coach who can assist you in identifying career potential, skills, interests, and developing a plan to help you achieve your career goals. Receive unbiased, objective feedback that will be tailored to your job search and individual needs. Career coaches can assist with resume critique and feedback, career transition or advancement, clearly defining career goals and developing a plan for success, identifying companies and industries that align with career interests, updating your professional profile on sites like LinkedIn, or evaluating graduate school applications.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Have a Conversation with a Career Coach (Online)


Meet a career coach who can assist you in identifying career potential, skills, interests, and developing a plan to help you achieve your career goals. Receive unbiased, objective feedback that will be tailored to your job search and individual needs. Career coaches can assist with resume critique and feedback, career transition or advancement, clearly defining career goals and developing a plan for success, identifying companies and industries that align with career interests, updating your professional profile on sites like LinkedIn, or evaluating graduate school applications.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Conference | A Look at What Emotions Mean Across Cultures and Languages (Online)


An array of professors from academic institutions around the globe sit down to discuss what "emotion" really means through the lens of different cultures, different languages, and different time periods. The answers promise to offer new perspectives on emotion that will be of interest to psychologists, neuroscientists, philosophers, anthropologists, historians, and more. Panelists include: Peter Meineck, NYU Ruth Caston, University of Michigan Francoise Mirguet, Arizona State University Maria Heim, Amherst College Note: This is part two of a two-part series.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Caribe Hostil: Narratives of Displacement in Puerto Rican Contemporary Art (online)


Welcome Dr. Yarimar Bonilla in conversation with artists Ricardo Cabret, Sofía Gallisá Muriente, and Roberto "Yiyo" Tirado to discuss topics that have become increasingly relevant for the Puerto Rican community, including displacement, gentrification, remote working, and financial hardship.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)


Take a momentary respite from a busy day to enjoy a selection of organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach in an intimate venue.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Workshop | Enjoy an afternoon of crafting and conversation


Bring your own project or choose something from a provided collection to work on during this freeform crafting workshop. The workshop will include materials for sewing, knitting, crochet, coloring, paper crafts, and puzzles. First come, first served.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:30 pm
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Concert | Classical Chamber Music for Harpsichord (In Person and Online)


Hilda Huang, Harpsichord Program Jean-Henri D'Anglebert (1629 - 1691) Passacaille from Armide, by Mr. Lully Antoine Forqueray (1672 - 1745) Suite III (arr. Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Forqueray) Louis Couperin (1626 - 1661) Pavane in F-sharp minor Francois Couperin (1668 - 1733) L'engageante Antoine Forqueray (1672 - 1745) Suite III (arr. Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Forqueray) Pianist and harpsichordist Hilda Huang began her international performing career upon receiving first prize at the Leipzig Bach Competition at 18 years of age. Since presenting her debut recital on the Steinway & Sons Prizewinners' Concert Network at the Leipzig Gewandhaus in partnership with the Leipzig Bach Archive, she has been invited to perform Bach at the Leipzig Bach Festival, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, BASF Gesellschaftshaus, and the Montreal Bach Festival. She appeared as continuo organist in Bach cantatas at Emmanuel Church in Boston, MA as part of the Emmanuel Bach Institute and will serve as continuo organist for the 2023 American Bach Soloists Academy, performing the Bach Mass in B Minor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Conference | Ottoman Algiers Beyond 1830


In 1830, French troops conquered Ottoman Algiers. In the following 130 years, the occupation –and subsequent annexation– of Algeria became perhaps the most significant example of European colonialism. Abdelkader’s anticolonial resistance, the development of the French mission civilisatrice and the extensive infrastructure surrounding it, the rise of the F.L.N. and the Algerian war of independence, to name but a few examples, all became well-documented, well-studied episodes in modern colonialism’s most emblematic story. What does this all-colonial telling of Algeria’s modern history obscure? This workshop seeks to address this question by considering the history of the conquest from the point of view of the conquered: the Ottoman province of Algiers. That the Algiers of 1830 had been a province of the Ottoman Empire for over three centuries has been largely ignored by historians of modern Algeria. The speakers of this workshop take as a point of departure the idea that Algeria’s colonial history cannot be understood without considering its profound Ottoman entanglements. Looking beyond 1830, they trace the deep continuities that tied colonial Algeria to its “precolonial” past and reveal the myriad ways Algiers remained Ottoman well after the French conquest. They explore several themes, including the discursive invention of ‘1830’ and the construction of the precolonial/colonial opposition; local petitions as sites of negotiation for old and new imperial identities; as well as mapping, archive-making, and other technologies of appropriation and re-signification of Algiers’ Ottoman past.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Lecture | The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin (in-person and online)


A lecture by Dr. Phi Su, Williams College.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Classical Music | String Quartet Mozart-a-thon (in-person and online)


   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | Guns, Germs, and Stealing a Continent (online)


This presentation by Mike Goyette of Eckerd College will examine the Renaissance Italian polymath Girolamo Fracastoro’s three-book Latin epic Syphilis, Sive Morbus Gallicus (1530), which theorizes about the origins, transmission, progression, and treatment of syphilis. Written shortly after the time the disease became known to Europeans, this dactylic hexameter poem also contains what may be the earliest representation in European poetry of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Reading | Readings by 4 Asian American Writers


Readings by Wo Chan, Sarah Thankam Mathews, Tanaïs, and Ryan Lee Wong
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Bernar Venet: Gravity


An upcoming exhibition of sculpture by French conceptual artist Bernar Venet (b. 1941) will bring together major large-scale works spanning the artist's expansive oeuvre, including the first New York presentation of Pile of Coal (1963), Venet's first sculptural work widely recognized as a pioneering example of sculpture without a specific shape. Offering American audiences the opportunity to see several historically significant works in one setting, the exhibition will also include works on paper and documentation of Venet's earliest artistic gestures hailing from the 1960s.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Flora Fantastic: Eco-Critical Contemporary Botanical Art (in-person and online)


The nature of plants can be two-sided, as the line between poison and panacea is often thin. The knowledge of what heals and what is a hazard can be traced back to pre colonial times. Ships from Empires crossing oceans carried plants as green gold together with enslaved peoples and animals. At the same time, the dual movement of colonizing landscapes and landscaping colonies by Europeans ensured that indigenous livelihoods were damaged in ways still palpable today. This exhibition brings together artists from post-colonial contexts who are looking critically at the colonial past and deconstructing history through the lens of the botanical. Kristaps Ancāns looks at the artificiality of domestic interiors decorated with indigenous plants removed from their native contexts, creating a sense of control over nature. Joiri Minaya addresses colonial encounters in the Americas, gesturing towards nature’s reclamation of her lands. Scherezade Garcia reveals interconnectedness between the natural environment and commercial enterprises. Virginia Wagner unearths how botanical knowledge is historically translated. Tamika Galanis investigates how botanicals became agents of health and resistance. A collaborative botanical timeline positions plants as protagonists in colonial history, capable of draining life out of the body or restoring well-being.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Jacqueline Humphries: Painting in the Screen-Based World


Jacqueline Humphries integrates gestural expression with the effects of new technologies, exploring how painting can capture and complicate the sensory experience of a screen-based world. Her imposing, large-scale canvases have long equated painting with other media interfaces, subjecting its analog format to an evolving set of signs and symbols from our online vernacular. These latest works—presented singly or linked in multi-panel configurations—feature stenciled motifs of emoticons and emojis, logos, and digitally-enlarged patterns that fill the surface, derived from images of white noise or splattered ink from a faulty printer. The prevailing mood skews toward the ruminative here, and the style of rendering toward deformation; Humphries uses the trappings of our networked existence to weigh how it actually feels to inhabit it. A low-grade pathos radiates from the jittery optics of her stenciled patterns, and occasionally congeals into visual tropes of B-movie horror—a reminder that, despite perennial claims for its obsolescence, painting itself refuses to die; and that horror may be the genre most bracingly suited to processing the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | K.R.M. Mooney: extence


Prior to the opening of the exhibition, the limestone tile floor of the gallery was buffed at the request of the artist. Polishing a surface requires direct contact with an abrasive. This insistent rotation exemplifies rhythms and internal drives that gently transform matter through prolonged touch. At the moment when the limestone is pulverized, its calcium-bearing chemical composition comes into focus, permeating the space and establishing one of the registers of convergence present throughout the show. Mooney’s use of calcium carbonate substances in various forms draws out affinities between discrete objects. The compound becomes a node in the networked modes of material behaviors. By emphasizing the gallery floor, the very basis of the architectural interior and the physical support of many of his works, the artist subverts the assumed invisibility and auxiliary role of the ground, embracing it in a gesture of long-lasting care, the effect of which will outlive the exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Museum of Now: Group Exhibition


Explore the worlds and art of 40 talented contemporary artists. Featuring hundreds of pieces: acrylic and oil paintings, drawings, collage, photography, prints, NFT art and art merchandise.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Sarasvati's Gift: The Art & Life of a Modern Buddhist Revolutionary


An exhibition of work by renowned artist Mayumi Oda. Known as the "Matisse of Japan," Mayumi Oda is a painter, environmental activist, and Buddhist practitioner whose life reflects both the brilliance and shadows of modernity. He explores her tremendous artistic talent and inspiration drawn from her Buddhist practice and her commitment to healing the planet.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Festival | Boromix: A Celebration of Puerto Rican Heritage, Art and Culture


Celebrate this year's Boromix with a festival kick-off event. The evening begins with the awards ceremony honoring leaders in the Puerto Rican and Venezuelan community and follows with the opening of our visual arts exhibitions, and special entertainment by Latin Artists. Don't miss this fun-filled evening celebrating Puerto Rican arts and culture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Democracy: Is This The End? (in-person and online)


Lecturer Slavoj Žižek contends that the Culture War raging in the developed West is a false war, a war between two versions of the same global capitalist system: its unrestrained pure version and its “neo-Fascist” conservative version which tries to unite capitalist dynamism with traditional values and liberties. As Žižek argues, the paradox is here double: Western Political Correctness is a displacement of the old class struggle – the liberal elite pretends to protect the threatened racial and sexual minorities to obfuscate the basic fact of their privileged economic and power position. This allows the alt Right populists to present themselves as a defense of the “real” working class against the big corporations and “deep state” elites. The implication to be drawn is not that Left and Right are today outdated notions but that both poles of today’s Cold War can only be properly grasped as a displaced class struggle: neither of them really stands for those exploited. What is becoming more obvious is the inability of the parliamentary liberal democracy to cope with today’s multiple crises and apocalyptic prospects. Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, and a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His books include Living in the End Times, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce and In Defense of Lost Causes. In conversation with Jeremy Glick.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Catherine Chalmers: We Rule: Exhibition Discussion


A discussion focusing on the intersection of science, nature and culture, presented on the occasion of Catherine Chalmers' exhibition. Chalmers created a site-specific drawing installation in the lower-level gallery and corridor that depicts the underground labyrinth of an ant colony inspired by her observation of, and engagement with more than one dozen colonies of leafcutter ants on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica. For Chalmers, leafcutter ants are metaphors for humanity’s life on earth: they farm, communicate, and collaborate; they also colonize, battle, and destroy. Yet the drawings in We Rule highlight a significant way that the insects diverge from humans—as an integrated part of their ecosystem, the ants carry out their actions in harmony with the earth. Chalmers will be joined in conversation by Oliver Milman, environmental correspondent at The Guardian US, and scientist Barrett Klein.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Play | Outcasts: The Lepers of Penikese Island


A student production of a play written and directed by Scott Barrow and based on the poems of Eve Rifkah.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | An Evening of Dances for Piano


Program J.S. Bach (1685 - 1750) Selection from French Suite No.2 Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849) Selected Mazurkas Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849) Two Waltzes Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974) Trois Rags Alexander Scriabin (1872 - 1915) Mazurkas, Op. 25 William Bolcom (1938 - ) Ghost Rag Bela Bartok (1881 - 1945) Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990) Four Piano Blues Alberto Ginastera (1916 - 1983) Danzas Argentinas Scott Joplin (1868 - 1917) A Concert Waltz
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | An Evening of Original Songs for Jazz Quartet


Neal Kirkwood, piano and compositions; Dee McMillen, vocals; Matt Asti, vocals; Tim Harrison, flute, piano and vocals; Jeff Brillinger, drums; Lindsey Horner, bass; Tom Marion, puppetry and vocals; Rob McFayden, puppetry and vocals; Tanya Dougherty, puppetry and vocals; Andrew Butler, puppetry and vocals; Katie Seiler, vocals; Sam Kulik, trombone. Neal Kirkwood is a composer, pianist, arranger and bandleader living in New York City. Since moving to New York in 1981 he has been active as a performer and composer in the worlds of jazz, classical, and theater. He is currently composing for the Neal Kirkwood Big Band and Blue Inventions Trio.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare (online)


With: Professor Dr. Paul Lockhart, Professor of History at Wright State University
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Piano Concert: A Global Journey Beyond Vision


Despite permanently losing his vision soon after birth due to retinopathy of prematurity, young Chinese pianist Hao Liu is building a bright musical future. Since sharing the stage with world-renowned pianist Lang Lang in 2018, Hao now performs widely and shares his courage and love through music. Hao performs piano works of Li YingHai, Wang Jianzhong, Schubert, and Debussy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Jazz | The Music of Michael Cochrane (In Person and Online)


An evening of original jazz compositions by highly-acclaimed musician Michael Cochrane. Michael Cochrane, piano; Eli Asher, trumpet; Brandon Vazquez, trumpet; Joe Ford, alto sax; Calvin Hill, bass; Steve Johns, drums Program No Stone Left Unturned Listen Blizzard 2005 Colors Starry Night With The Creators' Grace Michael Cochrane is a jazz musician who has performed with a number of renowned artists around the globe over the decades. A staple of the NYC jazz scene, Mr. Cochrane has recorded over ten CDs as band leader of the Michael Cochrane Quartet, and has written several books of piano music and instruction. Seating first come first serve. Masks are required.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Play | Red Bike: Remember When You Were Eleven?


Caridad Svich's play asks: what kind of future will you have living in these here United States? Remember when you were eleven years old and you had a bike, one that made you dream about a world bigger than the one in which you live? This is that memory. Except it is now. A student production.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Brass Ensemble Performs Classic Works by Richard Strauss, Pietro Mascagni, Aram Khachaturian and more...


Directed by Mark Gould and Brandon Ridenour Program Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949) Feierlicher Einzug, arr. by B. Ridenour Pietro Mascagni (1863 - 1945) Cavalleria Rusticana Overture, arr. by M. Paoli Alexander Trufanov, The Dragon Eric Ewazen (1954 - ) Grand Canyon Octet, Allegro Maestoso Aram Khachaturian (1903 - 1978) Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia, arr. by M. Styrna Florence Price (1887 - 1953) My Soul's Been Anchored in the Lord, arr. by B. Ridenour Guests must provide proof of up-to-date vaccination, including a booster when eligible; a negative result from a PCR test taken within three days before arrival; or a negative result from a rapid test taken the same day. Masks are required.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Screening | Tap Ellington: Tap Dance and Music on Film (in-person and online)


Tap Ellington was presented on Friday, July 14 in 2017 at the Appel Room, Jazz at Lincoln Center. It was a musical celebration of a man's life, his music and a unique legacy of introducing, promoting and presenting tap dancers to audiences all over the world. Master of ceremonies Tony Waag and the Duke Ellington Center Big Band conducted by Eli Yamin joined together in honor of this legendary icon of American Jazz, with tap dance performances by emerging raw talent, contemporary soloists and leading tap masters including Brenda Bufalino, Ayodele Casel, Mercedes Ellington, Sarah Reich, Caleb Teicher, Sam Weber, Jossette, Joseph Wiggan and others. Duke Ellington composed a number of songs specifically for tap dancers, and many of America's greatest tap dancers worked with Duke Ellington. Ellington wrote tunes such as Bojangles and Tap Dancers Blues, and incorporated the seminal tap dance solo David Dance Before the Lord into his Concert of Sacred Music, often performed by tap dance virtuoso Bunny Briggs and the elegant rhythm tap dancer Buster Brown (1960's to 1980's). The Library of Congress "Tap Dance in America" Database, created by Constance Valis Hill, lists 195 records in their search engine under Ellington/Tap Dance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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