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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 31, 2016?

41 free events take place on Thursday, March 31 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 31 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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41 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, March 31, 2016

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free events nyc Revolutionaries: The Late Works of Beethoven and Ginastera
free events nyc Fairy Tale Imagery in Fashion
free events nyc The Democratic Surround: Management by Media from the Cold War to Facebook
free events nyc Seasoned with Song: Sacred Music of the Ashkenazic Sabbath Meals
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City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour


This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing. This tour takes place every day at 10am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Master Class | Kim Laskowski: Woodwind Master Class


Kim Laskowski, born in Brooklyn, she studied with Harold Goltzer, former associate principal bassoon of the New York Philharmonic. She was a member of National Orchestral Association and participated in the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra and the Spoleto Festival. A recipient of a Fulbright Grant for foreign study, she attended the Conservatoire National Superieure de Paris where she was a student of Maurice Allard. While at the Conservatoire, she toured Europe as a member of the Orchestre des Prix.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. This workshop occurs Mondays through Fridays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon


The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 15, 2015 to May 26, 2016.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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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. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: 100 Years of the Picture Collection


Join a 30-minute docent-led tour of the exhibition.
   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. This workshop takes place Tuesdays and Thursdays from March 1 to March 31.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Concert | Revolutionaries: The Late Works of Beethoven and Ginastera


Program: Alberto Ginastera Puneña No. 2, op. 45 ("Hommage à Paul Sacher") Benjamin Britten Suite for solo cello J.S. Bach Suite for solo cello With: Ashley Bathgate, cello
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Discussion | The Hōkūle’a: Indigenous Resurgence from Hawai’i to Mannahatta


In the summer of 2016, the Hawaiian voyaging canoe Hōkūle‘a will be arriving to New York City — Lenape Territory — as a part of its worldwide voyage called Mālama Honua (to care for our earth). The Hōkūle‘a uses no modern navigational instruments, but instead ongoing Hawaiian creative practices that read the sun, moon, stars, clouds, winds, waves, and the patterns of a diversity of nonhuman species to find their way. The voyage is a part of a global movement for the resurgence of Indigenous knowledges, languages, and land-based practices that are ever needed in the production of alternative futures for this historical moment. This symposium is a means to think through possibilities existent when Indigenous “subjugated knowledges” chart new epistemes for the twenty-first century.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | The Emericus Ensemble performs 'Quel Augellin – Bird Songs'


“Quel Augellin: Bird Songs” is a program based on the common theme of birds as lovers, friends and confidants. From the joys to despairs of love, a bird song can be plaintive or rejoicing. You will find the range of emotion throughout this program. Performers:  Elise Figa, soprano; Jennifer Pomeroy, soprano; Carlos Cuestas, theorbo; Tod Hedrick, viola da gamba; Lewis R. Baratz, recorder; Alex Yu, recorder
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:15 pm
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Film | Alfred Hitchcock's Oscar Nominee Strangers on a Train (1951): Murder on Wheels


Stars: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman. A psychotic socialite confronts a pro tennis star with a theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder - a theory that he plans to implement. 101 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010): 5 Oscars Won


Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page. A thief who steals corporate secrets through use of the dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a CEO. 148 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Concert | Franklin (Ind.) Community High School Choir


Choral works and arrangements by William Dawson, Eric Whitacre, Zach Taylor, Willy Richter, Michael Horvit, Sergi Rachmaninov, Robert Lau, and Peter Lutkin
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Conference | New Yorkers in the Land of the Pharaohs


This event will showcase the fieldwork of three venerable New York institutions in Egypt: NYU, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. Speakers from these institutions will present their current research in Egypt along with their thoughts on the history and future of fieldwork there. This event occurs March 31 and April 1.
   New York City, NY; NYC
5:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Intro Class: Conscious Entrepreneurship - Mindful Tools to Grow a Thriving Venture


Led by Scott Tillitt and Ajax Greene with Myriam Bouchard, Melissa Gibson, Colette Ruoff and Gary Schuster. Whether you’re self-employed, or a budding entrepreneur, or for anyone seeking to start/grow an ethically responsible venture, this series of workshops is designed to equip you with tools, tactics, information, and, mindsets that helps you not only succeed, but find purpose and fulfillment. Each hands-on workshop will be led by a series facilitator and a different experts on specific topics each week.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | 2 Art Shows: Regina Corritore / Jane Stevens


The exhibition of Regina Corritore's sculpture and works on paper will highlight and examine the past 40 years of her art making career. Examining the threads that lead from one decade to the next in this diverse body of work the viewer is constantly surprise by the unique direction this artist takes. Jane Stevens' black and white photographs capture the magical and spiritual quality a camera can record. These photographs capture the essence and spirit of a place. Using this light sensitive medium, the artist captures a moment in time and the illusive quality of light. The photographs document approaching storms using infrared film.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez (2015): Poet's Life and Politics


The life and thoughts of this iconic poet, playwright, teacher, and activist whose whole life is art and politics, and mesmerizing. With appearances by Questlove, Talib Kweli, Ruby Dee and others, this documentary examines Sanchez's contribution to the world of poetry, her singular place in the Black Arts Movement and her leadership role in African American culture over the last half century. 90 min. Followed by a Q+A with Sonia Sanchez and co-director Sabrina Schmidt Gordon. 6:00pm Reception 6:30pm Live Poetry Reading 7:00pm Screening
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Conference | Democracy and Expertise


The idea of this conference is to discuss the tension between democracy and expertise, which Robert C. Post will address in his keynote speech. We are living in a globalizing world in which knowledge, science, and technology are constantly changing at a high speed, and in which the information about this knowledge is diffused worldwide at an equally high speed. Societies need this knowledge and rely on expertise in order to flourish and be able to solve vexing problems such as the international financial crisis, the Eurozone crisis, and climate change. Thus, competent democratic governance is not possible without the knowledge of experts. Takes place March 31-April 1.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Exhibition: Michael Brown's in the meantime...


For this body of work, the thirty-three-year-old artist hand-cuts and polishes stainless steel until he has recreated a broken mirror. Brown embarked on the series in 2006 and since then, has returned to and expanded upon it intermittently throughout his career. The exhibition will feature eight works all in stainless steel with artist's frames and measuring 84 inches in height and 48 inches in width.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Fairy Tale Imagery in Fashion


Visual artists Natalie Frank and Kirsty Mitchell join Colleen Hill, curator of the exhibition Fairy Tale Fashion, to discuss the use of fairy tale imagery their work. Frank’s recent exhibition, The Brothers Grimm, featured 25 chalk and pastel drawings. Mitchell’s dream-like photographs intertwine fantasy, literature, and personal meditations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Lesson | Job interview: Would you rather 'pitch' yourself or tell your story?


In a job campaign we need to communicate our value to any number of people in any number of circumstances. Career coach Win Sheffield will teach you how to talk about yourself without having to have a hard-nosed pitch or a prepared speech. Learn to tell your story as it evolves, to focus and engage your audience all with a level of comfort that comes from focusing on what you know and asking about what you do not.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Performance | Magic in a New York State of Mind


Amazing and confounding miracles will be performed by conjurors from the local Assembly of the Society of American Magicians. Founded in 1902, the Assembly’s members have included many magical greats, including Harry Houdini, Howard Thurston, and David Copperfield. The show will include performances from longtime veterans as well as up and coming magicians who are at the forefront of the art. In addition to an evening of great magic, the event will celebrate the remarkable history of magic in New York and the contributions of local magicians to the worldwide magical community.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Mixed Media Works: Thomas Ruff's press++


Working in distinct series since the late 1970s, Ruff has approached different genres of photography, including portraiture, architecture, astronomy, the nude, surveillance footage, reportage, and photograms. Using a wide range of technological approaches, and often pushing the limits of photographic representation in the process, he has reinvented historical conventions and expectations of the medium.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Photography: Stan Douglas' The Secret Agent


The Secret Agent is Douglas’ adaptation of the 1907 political novel of the same title by Joseph Conrad. Set in London in 1886, the book recounts an anarchist’s failed plot to bomb the Greenwich Observatory and is considered among the first literary portrayals of modern-day terrorism.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | Recovering Equality in America


Thanks to Cold War era politics and rhetoric, Americans came to believe that liberty and equality are opposing ideals. This would come as a shock to the founding generation for whom liberty and equality were mutually reinforcing ideals. This talk helps us recover our understanding of the relationship between liberty and equality so that we can reclaim the power latent in their connection. In showing the links between liberty and equality, the talk touches on political, social, and economic aspects of equality. Speaker Danielle Allen is a political philosopher renowned for her ability to connect us to complex ideas about democracy, citizenship, and justice.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | The Democratic Surround: Management by Media from the Cold War to Facebook


Delivered by Fred Turner, Stanford University. Today we find ourselves moving from screen to screen across the day – from our iPhones, to our tablets, to our desktops, laptops, and back again. Little do we know that we are living out the multimedia dreams of several dozen Cold War social scientists, a handful of Bauhaus artists, and the musician John Cage. This talk tracks those dreams from the anti-Fascist propaganda of World War II to the psychedelic Happenings of the 1960s. It shows how multi-image, multi-sound environments once promised to bring about a radically democratic America. And it shows how that political promise slowly melted away into the narcissism of 1960s multimedia art. With that history in hand, it concludes, we can see how aesthetic tactics once summoned to oppose fascism have in fact set the foundation for the surveillance-driven, consumer-oriented media of our own time.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
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Discussion | The Hōkūle’a: Indigenous Resurgence from Hawai’i to Mannahatta


In the summer of 2016, the Hawaiian voyaging canoe Hōkūle‘a will be arriving to New York City — Lenape Territory — as a part of its worldwide voyage called Mālama Honua (to care for our earth). The Hōkūle‘a uses no modern navigational instruments, but instead ongoing Hawaiian creative practices that read the sun, moon, stars, clouds, winds, waves, and the patterns of a diversity of nonhuman species to find their way. The voyage is a part of a global movement for the resurgence of Indigenous knowledges, languages, and land-based practices that are ever needed in the production of alternative futures for this historical moment. This symposium is a means to think through possibilities existent when Indigenous “subjugated knowledges” chart new epistemes for the twenty-first century.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Beyond the Shoe: Rethinking Khrushchev at the 1960 UN General Assembly


A lecture by Alessandro Iandolo, London School of Economics, followed by a discussion led by discussants Malgorzata Mazurek and Tarik Amar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Workshop | Chinese Calligraphy Class


Learn how to use a brush pen to write Chinese calligraphy with an experience instructor. No Chinese language knowledge required. Library will provide supplies. This class repeats Thursday evenings in March and April.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Conference | From War to Politics: An International Conference on El Salvador’s Peace Process


This conference brings together major participants in the peace process that ended El Salvador’s 13-year civil war (1979-1992). The peace process itself was a remarkable achievement that ended an intractable conflict, and enabled El Salvador to transition to a peaceful civilian rule. By bringing together over a dozen of the most crucial participants and scholars, From War to Politics aims to reflect on the circumstances that allowed the peace process to be successful.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Seasoned with Song: Sacred Music of the Ashkenazic Sabbath Meals


The Sabbath meals and their songs are repeatedly cited as being among the chief pleasures and obligations of the Sabbath, codified with the Talmudic injunction that on the Sabbath Jews should eat, drink, discuss Torah, and sing songs. Two traditions connect the Sabbath Zmires with Sabbath foods: the belief that the songs alone are nourishment, and the mystical tradition that food is itself a form of worship. This presentation examines some of the surprising cultural phenomena of the genre of zmires within and outside their traditional setting. Speaker Eve Jochnowitz has been teaching Yiddish Language, Culture, and Literature, as well as Yiddish Foodways and Dance for twenty years. She worked for several years as a cook and baker and received her Ph.D. on the subject of Jewish culinary ethnography in the department of Performance Studies from New York University.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
Free

Poetry Reading | Uljana Wolf reads from her book Meine schönste Lengevitch


Wolf reads and discusses how her work relates to issues of translation, migration, language loss, and language politics. She is in conversation with her translator, the poet and scholar Sophie Seita, whose translations of Wolf received the Wonder Book Prize in 2014 and a Pen/Heim Award in 2015.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Gallery Talk | ...then we know that it is really a door: On Endurance and Futurity


…then we know that it is really a door: On Endurance and Futurity will account for aesthetic, conceptual, and formal relationships between the twenty seven projects represented in the first-year MFA exhibition. In dialog with artists Kambui Olujimi and Aki Sasamoto as well as art historians and curators Rujeko Hockley and Natasha Marie Llorens, they will take up the personal and cultural roots of these practices and think through possible readings and effects of the work moving ahead.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Lecture | Dark Nights, Bright Lights: Mission Report - Pluto Update


Join Jaclyn Avidon, a former intern at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab at CALTECH, to learn more about what was recently discovered by the New Horizons space probe about Pluto’s size, surface, atmosphere, and moons. Many surprising finds. Bring your own telescope or binoculars and set them up next to the experts. Lecture: 7 p.m. – 8 p.m. Skygazing: 8 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. (weather permitting)
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Author Reading | Donna Leon reads from her book The Waters of Eternal Youth


Author Donna Leon's celebrated Commissario Guido Brunetti series reaches its 25th installment.15 years ago, a teenage girl nearly drowned in a canal, surviving thanks to a nearby alcoholic who heard her splashes and pulled her out--though not before she suffered irreparable brain damage. No one was ever convicted of pushing her. Now, the girl's grandmother asks Brunetti if he will investigate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Election Fever: The Contenders


Join Matt Katz (WNYC), Annie Karni (Politico), and more for a spirited, non-partisan discussion about the unprecedented nature of this year’s presidential election followed by a post-panel mixer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free

Opening Reception | Exhibition: The Name of the Project Is Project Itself


Artists Jan Broz and Richard Nikl explore techno pessimism. They create a modular system formed from tubes, plastic tape and the waste that is created during the production of a large-format advertisement.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Nancy Finley discusses her book Finley Ball


This is the story of a losing baseball team that became a 1970s dynasty, thanks to the unorthodox strategies and stunts of two very colorful men.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Minetti Quartett performs works by Beethoven, Schubert, Kurtag


Program: Schubert: Quartettsatz in C minor, D.703 György Kurtág: Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánszky Beethoven: String Quartet in F major, Op. 18, No. 1
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
Free

Concert | ‘Roundtrip Tirol - NYC’: 3 Ensembles


Working with echo and space, thereby simulating sounds which resonate from valleys and mountaintops, amps will be placed in and outside the theater, creating a beautiful, yet unusual, musical experience for the musicians and audience, alike. THE ENSEMBLES: Hi5 Andi Tausch and Martin Reiter Duo Culturessence
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concert | Student Recitals


Thiago Fratuce Pimentel, guitar 8:00 pm Yuen Yuen Chan, piano 8:00 pm
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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