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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 12, 2013?

46 free events take place on Tuesday, March 12 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 12 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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46 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, March 12, 2013

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City Walk | All-in-One Downtown Tour


This tour utilizes your feet and the New York City Subway* to transport you from Lower Manhattan, the birthplace of New York, through Wall St and the Financial District, Greenwich Village, SoHo, Chinatown and Midtown Manhattan. There will be ample opportunities for memorable pictures. You'll get the chance to savor NY's best pizza and cannoli and other treats, learn how to play NY handball, maybe bargain with a shopkeeper in Chinatown, observe a game of street chess in Greenwich Village, people watch and window shop in SoHo, and kick back on the Highline Park. Along the way, you'll master the subway and learn about New York's Finest!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
Free

City Walk | Midtown Manhattan Tour


Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present. Tour times: 11am & 1pm.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:15 p.m., and 3:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Jazz | Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen


The Gotham Jazzmen bring you all your old favorites and more.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Anthony Williams, Organist


Williams in from Fisk University, Tennessee The concert is performed on the Gabe M. Wiener Memorial Organ, an extraordinary instrument constructed by the renowned firm of Casavant Frères of St. Hyacinthe, Canada, and built for the specific requirements of the congregation's worship services and music program. The organ consists of two distinct, interconnected instruments: a Bimah Organ (Casavant Opus 3812) located on both sides of the bimah and used primarily during services to accompany the cantor, choir, and congregation; and a larger Gallery Organ (Casavant Opus 3813) located in the elevated rear gallery and used both for services and concerts. This singular organ contains an impressive 4,345 pipes, 55 stops, and 74 ranks.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Park Walk | “Views from the Past” Tour


As you promenade through the heart of the Park, imagine yourself living in 19th Century New York City. Learn about the Park's history and how its designers, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, struggled to create the magnificent "Greensward" for the enjoyment of all. Tour lasts approximately one hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander Hamilton Customs House.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free

City Walk | SoHo, Little Italy & Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Henry Schneider Scholarship Concert


This concert is your chance to hear some of the most-talented young artists from the Lucy Moses School, New York's largest community arts school.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:15 pm
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Gallery Talk | Infinity of Nations Guided Tour


A Museum Ambassador gives a 45-minute free guided tour through the permanent exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Concert | World known clarinetist Julian Milkis


Clarinetist Julian Milkis has performed as a soloist with such prestigious orchestras as the Toronto Symphony, the Moscow State Symphony orchestra, the Hamburg Mozarteum, the Edmonton Symphony, and l'Orchestre National de Lyon. As a chamber musician, Milkis has collaborated with such top musicians as Valery Afansiev, Yuri Bashmet, Gerald Caussé, and the Borodin String Quartet. He is very active as a participant in various musical festivals, such as Sviatoslav Richter's Chamber Music Festival in Moscow, which he has performed in since 1991. Milkis has recorded extensively for the Russian Disk, Melodiya, and Suoni e Colori labels, usually with his wife, pianist Nina Kogan, herself, a renowned soloist and graduate of the Moscow Conservatory of Music.
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:15 pm
Free

Book Discussion | Book Group: Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote


Please join for great company and a good discussion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Performance | Voices of Thinking Jewish Women


A play of many famous Jewish women, including Lillian Hellman, Bella Abzug, Emma Goldman and others. Presenter: Prudence Holmes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Symposium | Wall Street on the Prairie: How Financial Innovation and Regulation Cajoled Citibank into South Dakota


If you are like most Americans, you have probably at some point in your life mailed your credit card payments to Sioux Falls, South Dakota. This talk explains why your money went to that specific Main Street and not to Wall Street, or some payment processing mill in Jersey. Featured speakers include Augustana President Rob Oliver and Robert E. Wright, Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana and a member of the Museum's editorial board. Talk will be followed by Q&A and reception.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:30 pm
Free

Talk | A Practical Guide to Buying a Co-op, a Condo or a House


Carmen Lee Shue offers tips to first-time buyers of real estate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Artist Gary Schneider discusses his book Portrait Sequences 1975


A fascinating conversation, with Deborah Martin Kao and Gary Schneider, marking the publication of Portrait Sequences 1975. The prints were originally exhibited at Artist Space in 1977. Schneider’s portrait photography is discussed, a subject Deborah Martin Kao has extensively written about in the essay for his artist book John In Sixteen Parts.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Authors Jeanine Cummins and Mary Beth Keane read from their books


Jeanine Cummins and Mary Beth Keane will be here to discuss their books The Crooked Branch and Fever.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | C&SC New York, Korean Christian Music


Korean Christian musician's group based in NYC playing classical favorites.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | It's Complicated: A Concert by Ensemble Signal


PROGRAM: Luciano Berio: Sequenza VII Brian Ferneyhough: Bone Alphabet Luciano Berio: Sequenza XIVa Michael Gordon: XY Featuring: Courtney Orlando, violin; Lauren Radnofsky, cello; Doug Perkins, percussion; Bill Solomon, percussion. Ensemble Signal takes the audience on a mini exploration of the wildly different ways composers confront complexity and virtuosity. This tour-de-force Pop-Up is sure to keep listeners on the edge of their seats.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Mauricio Padilha & Roger Padilha discuss their book Antonio Lopez: Fashion, Art, Sex & Disco


Authors Roger Padilha and Mauricio Padilha, along with special guests Pat Cleveland and Corey Tippin, discuss their first complete monograph on the work of extraordinary fashion artist and illustrator Antonio Lopez. For three decades, Lopez produced illustrations, paintings, and photographs for Vogue, The New York Times, Women’s Wear Daily, and other publications while executing campaigns for labels as diverse as YSL, Valentino, and Versace. A book signing will follow the presentation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Meditation at the Library


Sahaja Meditation is a holistic approach to living in balance. The simple technique gives the experience of inner silence, calm and contentment. Sahaja Meditation is an inner yoga (connection), meaning no mental or physical effort is required. Whatever the issue facing us—frustration, anger, anxiety, bad habits, loneliness—Sahaja Meditation awakens a vibrant energy within each of us that empowers us to achieve our genuine self-expression and fulfillment .
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | The Fate of Tragedy


A lecture by Paul Schwaber, professor of letters at Wesleyan University and a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is the author of The Cast of Characters: A Reading of “Ulysses” (Yale University Press, 1999), which brings a clinician’s attentiveness and a scholar-critic’s literary commitment to the study of characterization in James Joyce’s Ulysses. Presented by the BFA Visual & Critical Studies Department.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Should Business Schools Have a Future?


The recent financial crisis has raised disturbing questions about our nations business elite. To what extent can this crisis be traced to the pedagogy of our business schools? Can business education promote the public good? If not, then how might we go about re-envisioning the education of the next generation of business leaders?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Discussion | Adventures in Italian Opera: A Conversation with Josè Cura


The fifth Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin will feature Argentine tenor Josè Cura, returning to the Met for one of the summits of the opera repertory, Verdi’s Otello.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Group: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg


Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Goldwater Hospital: 75 Years of History


Join Judith Berdy of the Roosevelt Island Historical Society for a fascinating and informative presentation on the history of Goldwater Hospital.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Reading | It Works Like This, a Reading and Dance Performance


It Works Like This is based on nine images from the Reanimation Library's archive selected by artist Erica Baum. The program will include a reading by Steven Zultanksi, a performance lecture by Shonni Enelow, and a dance performance by Lauren Bakst.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, discusses her book Everybody Matters


Human rights activist and former president of Ireland Mary Robinson will discuss her new memoir. Robinson has spent her life in pursuit of a fairer world, becoming a powerful and influential voice for human rights around the globe. Born in 1944 into a deeply Catholic family, she was poised to become a nun before finding her own true voice. Ever since, she has challenged convention in pursuit of fairness—whether in the Church, in government and politics, or in her own family.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Talk | Michael F. Armstrong discusses his book They Wished They Were Honest: The Knapp Commission and New York City Police Corruption


The author, who was the chief counsel to the Knapp Commission and an assistant United States attorney in the Southern District of New York (chief, Securities Fraud Unit), as well as district attorney for Queens County, New York, and is currently Chair of the New York City Commission to Combat Police Corruption, examines corruption in the New York Police department in the 1970s, and the ways in which the police are now policing themselves.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Film | Swedish Cinema: Lena Koppel's The Importance of Tying Your Own Shoes (2011)


When Alex finally gets a job as the leader of a local theater group for people with disabilities, his outlook on life begins to change. Through the theater group’s work, Alex comes to appreciate that every person has his or own talents, which can grow if given the opportunity and support. 100 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Group: Island of Vice by Richard Zacks


A new nonfiction reading group discusses its first selection.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Calvin Tomkins reads from his book Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews


In 1964, Calvin Tomkins spent a number of afternoons interviewing Marcel Duchamp in his apartment on West 10th Street in New York. Casual yet insightful, Duchamp reveals himself as a man and an artist whose playful principles toward living freed him to make art that was as unpredictable, complex, and surprising as life itself.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Video | Chim Pom: Screening and Artist Talk


With Ryuta Ushiro, of the Tokyo art collective Chim Pom. Featuring videography of Chim Pom's performances and installations orchestrated in response to the the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Reading | Double Take Reading, Featuring Pulitzer Winner Margo Jefferson


The fifth Double Take Reading, organized by Albert Mobilio, is where three pairs of authors read original shorts written about a shared experience. Featuring: Elizabeth Kendall & Margo Jefferson on Privilege Jess Row & Martha Southgate on Spike Lee's 1980s films Frederic Tuten & Iris Smyles on the penultimate episode of this season's The Bachelor
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Emily & Bruce Davidson discuss their book Bobby's Book


Journalist Emily Davidson and her husband, photographer Bruce Davidson, are joined in conversation by the subject of this fascinating new book, former gang leader turned drug addiction counselor Bobby Powers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Introduction to Meditation


With Sharon Salzberg.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Reading | Pen Parentis Reading: Austin Ratner / L. Annette Binder / David Ebenbach


Austin Ratner is the 2012 winner of the annual $100K Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Boston-based author L. Annette Binder is a Pushcart Prize winner. David Ebenbach, from Washington DC, won the coveted Drue Heinz Literature Prize. All three authors will be reading from new work and discussing how they balance active family lives with their successful literary careers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Photographer Natan Dvir discusses his career


Award-winning photographer Natan Dvir is known for his portrayals of individuals living in societies torn apart by political and economic upheaval. Based in New York, he photographs around the world for Polaris Images, and his work has appeared in publications such as Corriere Della Sera, Die Weltwoche, Die Zeit, Focus, Glamour, Journal de Dimanche, Le Monde, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Stern and Wallpaper.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | The Haunting: Poverty Pornography, Humanitarianism, and Neoliberal Globalization in Renzo Martens’ Enjoy Poverty


Art historian T.J. Demos considers Dutch artist Renzo Martens’s video Enjoy Poverty from 2008. Drawing from his forthcoming book Return to the Postcolony: Spectres of Colonialism in Contemporary Art, Demos elaborates on the Dutch artist’s travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo where he created a performative intervention in the image-regime of media, photojournalist, humanitarian, and artistic representations of poverty that reveals the structural conditions of economic inequality under neoliberalism’s global financial arrangements.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Tracing Our Roots, a Student Concert


Eteri Andjaparidze & Her Students in Concert. Special Guest: Elena Sorokina.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Aris Janigian reads from his novel This Angelic Land


The story of Adam Derderian, a hip, 27-year-old bar owner, during his six-day journey through the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Workshop | Meditation Mantras


At times outer distractions such as noises, or our own mental chatter can make it difficult to enter into meditation. Meditation mantras - spiritually resonant words or phrases - can be a very effective tool to calm the mind and quickly enter into a meditative state. During the program, you will be introduced to various mantras - from the classics such as "Aum" and "Shanti" to longer ones such as the "Gayatri Mantra". You will also recieve instruction on how to chant and pronounce each mantra, and will be invited to join in the soulful sounds yourself.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Staged Reading | Play Reading: After the Fire by Diana Marie Delgado


A poem/performance/novella—for the stage. The play conflates poetic technique with fractured monologues and dissolving scenes to explore the lives of Arthur (a kite brought down by a gale), Angela (sand at the bottom of the ocean), and their parents to build a dream-like meditation about how even after death what “happened” continues to arrest us.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
$5

Concert | Student Piano Recital


Featuring Alexander Bryson.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | The North/South Consonance Chamber Orchestra


Max Lifchitz and the The North/South Chamber Orchestra perform premieres of new works especially written for the occasion by Harry Bulow, Frank Corcoran, Binnette Lipper, William Pfaff & Joyce Solomon Moorman.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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