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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 16, 2019?

32 free events take place on Saturday, March 16 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 16 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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32 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Saturday, March 16, 2019

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free events nyc Union Square, Broadway, and SoHo Historic Walking Tour
free events nyc Oscar Nominated At Eternity's Gate (2018): Van Gogh's Story
free events nyc The Zookeeper's Wife (2017): Saving Lives From The Nazis Based On A True Story
free events nyc Carnegie Hall Citywide: Grammy winning Puerto Rican singer
free events nyc Works By Debussy, Ravel And More
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City Walk | Bronx Shoreline Walk, Part 2


Continue the walk across the Bronx. Explore a variety of environments from industrial/warehouse districts, cozy residential neighborhoods, and beautiful parks along the Greenway. Approximately 12 miles. Maintain a brisk, steady pace. There is some rugged terrain. Please note there are very few bathroom stops available on this walk and also very few drop-out points. Limited access to public transportation. Do not come on this walk if you feel you cannot maintain a 3 mph pace. They will not be taking a lunch break but bring snacks and water.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:15 am
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Hike | Bronx Shoreline Walk, Part 2


Explore a variety of environments from industrial/warehouse districts, cozy residential neighborhoods, and beautiful parks along the Greenway. Approximately 12 miles. Maintain a brisk, steady pace. There is some rugged terrain. Please note there are very few bathroom stops available on this walk and also very few drop out points. Limited access to public transportation. Do not come on this walk if you feel you cannot maintain a 3 mph pace. They will not be taking a lunch break, but bring snacks and water. Rain cancels.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Tour | 13 tours, all City neighborhoods, any time of the day, choose one tour or many


These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows. SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO 3 Hour Lower Manhattan Harlem Chelsea and the High Line 6 Hour Downtown Combined Greenwich Village Central Park Lower Manhattan Midtown Manhattan Grand Central Terminal Graffiti and Street Art Tours World Trade Center
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Open Level Vinyasa Yoga


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


A group for people to come together and share in the beautiful art of Origami - the ancient art of folding various mediums, most commonly paper. The word comes from the combination of the Japanese verb oru (to fold) and the noun kami (paper). Other materials often folded are fabric, wire mesh, sheet metal, tissue, thin plastic, cardboard, and straws. Origami, from ori meaning "folding", and kami meaning "paper" is the art of paper folding, which is often associated with Japanese culture. In modern usage, the word "origami" is used as an inclusive term for all folding practices, regardless of their culture of origin. The goal is to transform a flat square sheet of paper into a finished sculpture through folding and sculpting techniques.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Concert | Spanish Guitar


You can enjoy some tunes played on a Spanish guitar by a trained musician.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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City Walk | Union Square, Broadway, and SoHo Historic Walking Tour


Learn about the making of New York City's most notable and celebrated public squares. Then, take a stroll down New York's most famous street--learn about its origins as a Lenape trail, and how it eventually became the main artery of the most populous city in the United States. Finally, we walk through scenic SoHo, exploring both the neighborhood's recent history as well as some sordid tales from centuries past.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:00 am
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Workshop | Writing club


Want to meet local writers? Commit to a writing schedule? Practice your craft through writing prompts? Read original work to get and give feedback? Then come to the biweekly meetings of the Writing Club. Writers of all genres and styles, at all levels, are welcome to participate. No sign-ups required. For adults (ages 18 and up).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Open Studios | Artist-in-Residence Open Studios


Meet 2018 artists in residence Allison Janae Hamilton, Tschabalala Self, and Sable Elyse Smith, and be among the first to view their works-in-progress. The Artist-in-Residence program remains central to the Museum's mission.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | The Writer's Room


Would you like feedback on your writing? Do you have an idea, but don't know how to get started? Sign up for a 20-minute session with an experienced writer and editor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | The Zookeeper's Wife (2017): Saving Lives From The Nazis Based On A True Story


The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the German invasion. 127 min. Dir: Niki Caro. Starring Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl. The Zookeeper's Wife is written by Angela Workman and based on Diane Ackerman's non-fiction book of the same name. The film tells the true story of how Jan and Antonina Żabiński rescued hundreds of Jews from the Germans.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Film | Venom (2018): Embrace Your Anti-Hero


When Eddie Brock acquires the powers of a symbiote, he will have to release his alter-ego "Venom" to save his life. 112 min. Director: Ruben Fleischer. Starring Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed. The film was primarily inspired by the comic miniseries Venom: Lethal Protector (1993) and story arc Planet of the Symbiote (1995). Venom went on to be an unexpected box office success, becoming the fifth highest-grossing film of 2018 with over $855 million worldwide. A sequel is in development. Hardy was nominated in the Best Visual Effects or Animated Performance at the Los Angeles Online Film Critics Society Awards for his portrayal of Venom.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Talk | Art Talk With Visual Artists


Conversation with Derica Shields and Hannah Black. Hannah Black is a conceptual visual artist and writer. Her work spans video, text and performance and draws on communist, feminist, and afropessimist theory, autobiographical fragments, and pop music Hannah Black’s video installation, Beginning, End, None, takes the cell, the building block of all living organisms, as its starting point. Questioning the classic analogy of the cell as “factory,” Black explores the ideological aura of this comparison, which implicitly naturalizes the factory and commodifies the cell. Using found, personal, and laboratory footage, Black explores the leakiness of metaphoric and real transmissions between concepts of biology and society. Derica Shields is a writer, researcher and programmer from London. Her work has appeared in the New Inquiry, Rookie, Girls Like Us, Live Art Almanac, Flash Art and more. She is the co-founder of The Future Weird, a screening and discussion series centered on experimental, world-unravelling films by black artists and directors.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Creative Writing Class


Attendees will discover the value of their own stories. Registration is required. Participants are requested to commit to attending all sessions if possible.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Harry Callahan: Collage (Vogue)


Harry Callahan cut out hundreds of women's faces from Vogue magazines and assembled them into a collage, which he then photographed in numerous ways. Callahan was widely respected in the photography community for his open mind and experimental attitude, qualities reinforced by his association with Moholy-Nagy and the principles of Bauhaus design. He produced work in both formalist and more documentary modes, and worked in both black-and-white and color. Among the major exhibitions of his work were Photographs of Harry Callahan and Robert Frank (1962) at the Museum of Modern Art, and Retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art (1976) and at the National Gallery in Washington, DC (1996).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Oscar Nominated At Eternity's Gate (2018): Van Gogh's Story


A look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France. 111 min. Director: Julian Schnabel. Starring Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac. For his performance, Dafoe was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, Motion Picture Drama.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
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Film | Two time Oscar nominated North Country (2005): Miner Faces Sexual Harassment 


A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit. 126 min. Director: Niki Caro. Starring Charlize Theron, Jeremy Renner, Frances McDormand. The screenplay by Michael Seitzman was inspired by the 2002 book Class Action: The Story of Lois Jenson and the Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law by Clara Bingham and Laura Leedy Gansler, which chronicled the case of Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Company. North Country has two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Works Of Yeats And Tagore: Two Great Poets Commemorated Through Poetry And Music


On the eve of “The Great War,” the first world war, a poet from India met a poet from Ireland in a spirit of peace and creativity. They were the great poets of their nations in their times: artists who expressed themselves not only in verse, but also in plays, in songs, in social service, in politics, and even in works of spirituality and philosophy. This is a performance-collage, featuring a concert-reading from Yeats’ one-act play of the Irish legend, The Only Jealousy of Emer, and the premiere of a new American stage-recital of the classic Tagore dramatic-poem of Indian mythology, Chitra. Live music will include acapella renderings from Lou Harrison’s little known score for Yeats’ play, Ravi Shankar’s “The Enchanted Dawn” and archival audio of Shankar from the Library’s collection. The gifted performers will include Irish and Bengali musicians, dancers from the Ayana Arts South Asian Collective, members of the Barnard/Columbia Theatre Arts program and actors of Greenwich Village’s Jumble Shop Theater.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:30 pm
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Author Reading | Irrational Music: Memoir and Music Theory


Irrational Music is a mix of memoir, cultural discussion, and music theory.  “Elliott Sharp’s writing, like his music, recombines the scrupulously discursive with the deeply humane and reflective. What a joy it is to be informed by this remarkable account of the coming-of-age of his psyche, his curiosity, and his methodology. Sharp paints a picture of lost kingdoms of the avant-garde which aren’t really lost, but continuous in our present if we’re inclined to notice them. With this book, a reader joins Sharp in the step-by-step reinvigoration of intentional sound itself – sound as culture, as science, as art – a process that can never be finished.” – Jonathan Lethem
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Book Signing | Tereska and her Photographer: A Story


Book launch and signing of Carole Naggar's new book: Tereska and her Photographer: A Story.  Tereska and her Photographer: A Story, is a photobook that presents a fictional history by Carole Naggar about the extraordinary parallel lives of Magnum photographer and co-founder David “Chim” Seymour and Tereska Adwentowska, a young Polish girl who was the subject of Chim’s most famous photograph. Carole Naggar is a poet, photography historian, curator and painter. She is a regular contributor to Aperture, and Time Lightbox, and since 2014 she has been Series Editor for the Magnum Photos Legacy Biography series. She has written biographies of photographers George Rodger, Werner Bischof and David Seymour (photographer). She was the cofounder and Special Projects Editor of Pixelpress from 1999-2006.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Talk | Artist Talk


Frances F. Denny talks about her exhibition Major Arcana: Witches in America. Photographer Frances F. Denny whose work investigates female identities, she has won numerous awards, including PDN’s 30, LensCulture Emerging Talent, Magenta Flash Forward, and Critical Mass. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Bottle Painting


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


Curated by Ishmael Houston-Jones, the DraftWork series hosts informal, free Saturday afternoon performances that offer choreographers an opportunity to show their work in various stages of development. Performances are followed by discussion and a reception with the artists and curator. With: Brendan Drake Marion Spencer
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Queer Life Before Stonewall: Writers Discuss The History Of LGBTQ In New York


Authors Hugh Ryan and Lisa E. Davis discuss their work and the rich history of underground LGBTQ life in New York City before Stonewall. Books will be for sell with cash only. Hugh Ryan is a writer and curator. He sits on the Boards of QED: A Journal in LGBTQ Worldmaking, and the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art. He is the recipient of the NYPL's 2016-2017 Martin Duberman Fellowship for research on his forthcoming book, When Brooklyn Was Queer, a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s to the queer women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond.  Lisa E. Davis is the  author of the novel Under the Mink, a film noir tale of gay and lesbian entertainers in mob-owned Village nightclubs of the 1940s. She is also the author of Undercover Girl: The Lesbian Informant Who Helped the FBI Bring Down the American Communist Party , a true story of a notorious Village lesbian who worked undercover in the American Communist Party as an informant (1942-49) and testified at the first Smith Act trial (1949) of the Party leadership.  Stonewall Riots were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members LGBT community against a police raid that took place on June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. They are widely considered to constitute the most important event leading to the gay liberation movement and the modern fight for LGBT rights in the United States.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Gallery Talk | Sunless


Seth Cameron will deliver a reading of the title essay from his current exhibition at the gallery, Sunless, followed by a deep-diving conversation with artist and writer Jarrett Earnest. This event promises to be a rare glimpse into the thought process behind this elegantly sharp-elbowed exhibition. Seth Cameron is a painter and writer. He worked as the Creative Director for Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, curating the exhibition A Knock at the Door…, which examined First Amendment issues in the arts in the aftermath of the Patriot Act. Meanwhile he co-founded The Bruce High Quality Foundation, an artist collective masquerading as an artist’s foundation, producing unsanctioned public interventions, musical theater performances, zombie films and myriad other nose-thumbing commentaries on the art world. Jarrett Earnest is the author of What it Means to Write About Art: Interviews with Art Critics, editor of Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light: 100 Art Writings 1988-2017 by Peter Schjeldahl and curator of The Young and Evil at David Zwirner.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Classical Music | Afternoon Organ Meditations


Diverse programs of music celebrating the great repertoire of the organ. Takes place every Saturday and Sunday from September 9, 2018 to May 26, 2019.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Classical Music | Carnegie Hall Citywide: Grammy winning Puerto Rican singer


Classic Latin boleros, mambos, and danzóns burn hotter with iLe’s voice. Before she went solo and took her current stage name, Ileana Cabra was a singer and rapper under the name PG-13, performing with the popular rap group Calle 13 that features her half-brothers known as Residente and Visitante. Her most recent album, the breakthrough iLevitable, features Latin favorites along with songs written by her family members and backed by a host of Puerto Rican music superstars. Her first solo production, entitled 'iLevitable' and launched in June 2016, won a Grammy in the category Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album in 2017, and for it iLe was also nominated for the Latin Grammy Awards as "Best New Artist".
   New York City, NY; NYC
4:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Short Plays To Nourish The Mind And Soul


Staged readings of two new plays; Happy Meal Also and My Mother My Wife. Written by Cesi Davidson. Directed by Jeannine Foster-McKelvia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Reading | Readings From The Writer Of Amores Perros


Ser Serpas has exhibited in NYC, LA, Zurich, and Miami. She writes for Artforum and has been reviewed in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, DIS (collective), and Flash Art. Serpas is the author of Amores Perros (Publishing House) and co-author and illustrator of Shade The King with Rindon Johnson (Capricious). Park McArthur engages in a primarily sculptural way of marking art. Various in its material, form, process, fabrication method and fabricator, McArthur’s work is interested in dependency in its many instantiations, but particularly under the guidance and instruction of disability and debility.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:30 pm
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Classical Music | Hungarian Rising Stars: An Evening with the Aspiring Hungarian Musicians of New York


Get mesmerized by the wonderful tunes of New York's four exceptional young Hungarian Rising Stars of classical music. Júlia Hámos (piano), Abigél Králik (violin), Dávid Nagy (bassoon) and Noémi Sallai (clarinet) are about to dazzle the audience with fascinating pieces by Kodály, Kurtág, Bartók and Leó Weiner. These aspiring young Hungarian virtuosos truly showcase that not only the past but the future of Hungarian classical music is bright.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | New Artworks From Five Artists


Assembled from a selection of new artworks from five artist educators, Intraference, explores the process of artist exploration from within the foregrounded position that “question” and methodological inquiry generally assumes among those who endeavor to teach as well as create. In a variety of visual media, including painting, drawing, ceramics, and video, these artists take inspiration from exterior and interior spaces, both personal and communal - real and imagined, while moving through the channels of their respective concerns and in active dialogue with the media of their choosing. As the title of the show implies, the friction, the tension, the call and the response of artmaking typically originates from (intra-) within, while the residual impacts of the creative gesture emanate outward, connecting disparate points of inspiration, education, interpersonal exchange and beyond. Art by: Bert Benally, Uisuk Byeon, Matthew Capezzuto, Jihyun Kim, Sae A Lee.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Classical Music | Works By Debussy, Ravel And More


Elena Belli, piano; Adam Kent, piano; Jonathan Levin, piano; Golda Tatz, piano; Peter Vinograde, piano; Alejandro Mendoza, violin; Karen Rostron, violin; James Noyes, saxophone; Jeanai LaVita, soprano. Program Debussy Images, Book II; Selected Préludes and Soirée dans Grenade from Estampes; Apparition; Sonata for Violin and Piano Ravel Sonata for Violin and Piano 100 Cohen Sonata for Soprano Saxophone and Piano 100 Flagello Prelude, Ostinato, and Fugue 100 Crew/Gaudio, arr. Levin: “Too Good To Be True”
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:30 pm
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