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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on November 19, 2013?

49 free events take place on Tuesday, November 19 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 19 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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49 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, November 19, 2013

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free events nyc Master Class with world-known pianist Richard Goode
free events nyc Joyce Carol Oates discusses her writing
free events nyc Violin and Piano Works by Beethoven and Mozart
        

Tour | 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
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Tour | 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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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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. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 3:15 p.m., and 4:00 p.m.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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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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12:00 pm
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Jazz | Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen


The Gotham Jazzmen bring their take on Dixieland Jazz. The band features: Ed Bonoff on drums; James Collier on trombone; Lee Lorenz on cornet; Pete Sokolow on piano; Dick Waldburger on bass; Ernie Lumer on clarinet; and Bill Wurtzel on guitar.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Master Class | Master Class with world-known pianist Richard Goode


Featuring Richard Goode, piano, this special event provides music lovers with a rare opportunity to witness the interaction between gifted students and great artists as they examine and explore the arts of performance on the highest level.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Park Walk | West Side Stories Tour


Walk through a scenic area on the western edge of the Park, much of which is off the beaten track for most visitors. See rolling meadows, lake views, bridges of different styles, and a garden with flowers and plants mentioned by Shakespeare.
   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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter


Enjoy a 45-minutes docent-led tour of the exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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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.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Concert | Chamber Works by Beethoven


Program: Ludwig van Beethoven – Violin Sonata No. 6 in A Major, op. 30 no. 1 Carl Reinecke – Trio for Piano, Oboe, and Horn, op. 188 The Ernst C. Stiefel Chamber Music Series presents College chamber music ensembles in a series of free lunch-time performances.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 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
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Workshop | Ballet Exercise Class for Adults


Here’s your chance to experience the ballerina in each of us. Learn basic ballet steps and experience the joy of dancing in a class that combines ballet and exercise specifically for older adults. You’ll have fun as you dance and see for yourself the benefits of ballet for good balance, agility and grace. Wear comfortable clothes and be ready to have fun.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Tour | 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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Gallery Talk | Gallery Tour: The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter


Enjoy a 45-minutes docent-led tour of the exhibition.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Author Reading | Tina Wasserman reads from her book Entree to Judaism for Families


Tina Wasserman shares her passion for cooking in her new cookbook.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:30 pm
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Concert | Piano Competition Finals


Program: RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Film | Shane Black's Iron Man 3 (2013): #1 Movie of the Year


With Robert Downey Jr., Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow. When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution. 130 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Performance | Performance Art: Derrick Adams' The Institution of Me


A live art installation comprised of three performances and the process of realizing them. Over the course of three evenings, Adams creates enlarged, projected silhouettes of Jamaican Pan-Africanist leader Marcus Garvey, Martinican folk hero Robert Saint Rose, and Nigerian political activist and Afrobeat musician Fela Kuti as a means of exploring and developing a personal conversation between the past and the present, and as a conceptual engagement between the artist in relation to their unique historical positions and continued social and political importance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Book Group: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes


Join a lively discussion on interesting books. Dig deeper, compare impressions, debate, and laugh.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Concert | Catalyst Quartet performs works by Glass and others


Program: Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981): Strum Joan Tower (b. 1938): In Memory Phillip Glass (b. 1937): String Quartet No. 3, “Mishima” (1957) Paquito D’Rivera (b. 1948): Wapango Catalyst Quartet is comprised of top winners and alumni of the renowned Sphinx Competition, an annual competition designed to identify and champion outstanding young string players in the Black and Latino communities.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | College Art Show: Dreams Lived/Dreams Shattered: MLK, JFK 50 Years Later


Many of the students of the graduate program in Illustration whose art hangs in honor of the 50th anniversary of the deaths of President John F. Kennedy and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., do not remember those seminal events from personal experience, but one wouldn’t know it from looking at their work. The exhibition includes the illustrations of 24 students in the Masters of Fine Arts program in Illustration and five faculty members, along with powerful personal statements about the pieces.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Author Reading | Michael Wood & Martin McLaughlin discuss their book Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985


This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a winter's night a traveler. But he was also an influential literary critic, an important literary editor, and a masterful letter writer whose correspondents included Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Gore Vidal, Leonardo Sciascia, Natalia Ginzburg, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Luciano Berio. This book includes a generous selection of about 650 letters, written between World War II and the end of Calvino's life. Readings by Josh Hamilton (actor).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Signing | Photographer Gerard H. Gaskin discusses his book Legendary: Inside the House Ballroom Scene


Gerard H. Gaskin’s radiant color and black-and-white photographs take us inside the culture of house balls, underground events where gay and transgender men and women, mostly African American and Latino, come together to see and be seen. At balls, high-spirited late-night pageants, members of particular “houses”—the House of Blahnik, the House of Xtravaganza—“walk,” competing for trophies in categories based on costume, attitude, dance moves, and “realness.” In this exuberant world of artistry and self-fashioning, people often marginalized for being who they are can flaunt and celebrate their most vibrant, spectacular selves.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Talk | A Country of Cities


Architect and urban planner Vishaan Chakrabarti argues that a focus on “trains, towers and trees” might provide a more prosperous, sustainable, and equitable alternative to our current failing condition of “highways, houses and hedges.” The lecture will be illustrated with a series of charts and diagrams specially developed by Michael Bierut and his team at Pentagram.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Erica Stollerr discusses her book Looking Twice: Understanding Urban Construction Through Photographs


Ezra Stoller's iconic photographs of 20th-century architectural masterpieces, such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater and Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building, are often cited in aiding the rise of modernism in America. Stoller (1915–2004) elevated architectural photography to an art form, capturing the mood of numerous buildings in their best light.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Joyce Carol Oates discusses her writing


Joyce Carol Oates has written some of the most enduring fiction of our time, including the national bestsellers We Were the Mulvaneys and Blonde (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize), and the New York Times bestsellers... Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over forty novels, many of which have garnered prizes as prestiged as the National Book Award, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Louise Steinman discusses her book The Crooked Mirror: A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation


This illustrated lecture explores the exhilarating, discomforting, and ultimately healing process of Polish-Jewish reconciliation taking place in Poland today.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Nina Rappaport & Erica Stoller discuss their book Ezra Stoller Photographer


The book considers the scope of work by Stoller, known as the dean of American architectural photographers. His iconic photographs of 20th-century architectural masterpieces, such as Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater and Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building, are often cited in aiding the rise of modernism in America. Stoller (1915–2004) elevated architectural photography to an art form, capturing the mood of numerous buildings in their best light.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Performance | Performance Art: Einat Amir's Our Best Intentions


Our Best Intentions invites audience members to take part in an intimate participatory performance combining elements from psychotherapy, theater and art. As individuals walk into a space divided into four domestic areas — a family lounge, a bedroom, a study, and a dining room – each participant selects a vest featuring an array of labels, such as "mother," "doubt," "addiction," "lover," and so forth. Under the direction of four moderators, the performance becomes a collaborative session wherein participants are encouraged to use personal stories and memories to confront unresolved issues, form momentary and intimate connections with strangers, and reveal themselves in unexpected ways. Our Best Intentions is an unpredictable series of interactions between moderators and audience members that seeks to contrast the individual/internal experience of therapy with the more dramatic devices of performance. As the action moves through the demarcated space, the audience is both active and passive, taking turns to watch other groups and participate within their own area, adding to the climatic, often emotional rollercoaster ride of different scenes that unfold in the space. Each interactive, closed session performance is 1 hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Reading | 4 writers read from their work


The reading will feature novelist and political commentator Ru Freeman, poet Randall Horton, fiction writer Karen Russell, and documentary filmmaker Pam Sporn.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | Daniel Menaker reads from his book My Mistake


In his witty yet tender memoir, Daniel Menaker recalls his twenty-six years rising from fact checker to editor at The New Yorker, followed by his joining Random House and ultimately becoming its editor-in-chief.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Dance Performance | Experiments in Dance: Chris Ferris & Dancers / Maja Rajenovich & Co / Kirsten Schnittker


A program of non-curated shared showings of experimentation and work-in-progress, for artists at all stages of their development. The events are centered around an audience discussion moderated by an Artist-in-Residence or an occasional guest, where we will experiment with different feedback methods to support and inform the artists' process.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Workshop | Introduction to Meditation


These introductory meditation classes were featured in New York Magazine’s top picks (4 stars).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Author Reading | Paul Auster discusses his book Report from the Interior


Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Performance | Performance Art: Karen Mirza and Brad Butler present The Museum of Non Participation: The Guest of Citation


Mirza and Butler invite local residents to work within the Museum of Non Participation to create and intervene in the Brechtian short “learning” play, “The Exception and the Rule.” The “rule” referred to in the title implies a legal language or a directive, while the “exception” evokes being ungovernable, or searching for an alternative to either the state or the free market. Together, they suggest that the rule cannot exist without the exception; the terms also pose a question as to what qualifies as a state of exception.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Talk | Photographer Talk: Katie Murray


Photographer Katie Murray in conversation with art critic and curator Maika Pollack.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Photographer Talk: Mary Beth Meehan


Mary Beth Meehan is a photographer and educator whose current project, City of Champions: Portrait of Brockton, examines her hometown, a post-industrial Massachusetts city. The work was exhibited as a large-scale public exhibition in downtown Brockton, sparking community-wide conversations about evolving urban identities, dislocation and the possibilities for social change. Meehan's work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The New York Times and The Washington Post; her photographs have been exhibited internationally and she has lectured widely on the topic of community photojournalism.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Rewriting Proust


Authors Elyane Dezon-Jones, Charles Dantzig and Daniel Levin Becker talk with Alexander Aciman about the imposing Proustian edifice and what it means to rework such canonical writing. In doing so they pose the question: in literature, how far can we go with the classics?
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Discussion | Soccerpalooza: Writers on The Beautiful Game


Jonathan Wilson, author of Kick and Run: Memoir with Soccer Ball, and other writer-fans discuss the sport.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Concert | Brass Ensemble - Fall Concert


Directed by Ray Riccomini, concerts explore chamber repertoire for brass, featuring trios, quartets, quintets, and brass choir. The two annual performances include transcriptions, arrangements, and compositions from all periods.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | College French Horn Recital


Students of Julie Landsman.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Performance | Country Time Comedy Show


Lineup: Kurt Metzger, Dan Soder, Kevin McCaffrey, Mike Recine and Wil Sylvince (Hosted by Leah Bonnema)
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Golden Anniversary: Celebrating Hindemith and Poulenc


From the Program in Piano Performance.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Gyil and Percussion Ensemble


Featuring Gyil Master Ba-ere Yotere.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Tour | Manhattan Night Tour


New York is a skyscraper city and there is no better time to view Manhattan’s icons than after the sun sets and the lights go on. Fueled by competition and a dash of audacity, New York City is still producing one of mankind’s most remarkable skyline.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Music & Video: Plan of the City and Other Works


This special evening of music and video highlights the talents of three exceptional artists: composer Judd Greenstein, founder of New Amsterdam Records and the Ecstatic Music Festival; filmmaker and video artist Joshua Frankel; and indie classical group, the NOW Ensemble. The program features performances by NOW of music by Greenstein and other composers interspersed with video work by Frankel, including a screening of Frankel’s innovative and whimsical short film Plan of the City scored by Greenstein and performed live by NOW, called “one of the best matches of visuals to music I have seen” by Anne Midgette of The Washington Post.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 pm
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Concert | Violin and Piano Works by Beethoven and Mozart


Program: Beethoven's "Pathetique" Sonata Mozart's Mannheim Sonatas and Schumann and Bartok Solo and duo program of classical piano solo and violin and piano duo sonatas with violinist Akiko Kobayashi and pianist Eric Siepkes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
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