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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 more 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" Five tours daily on the hour. less
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9:30 am
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Workshop | Teach Yourself: Computer Self-Study


Hands on using wireless laptops. Discover free computer tutorials on the web. Search the catalog for more books, DVDs and eBooks to help you learn computer programs and concepts on your own. Find resources on Word, Excel, Office 2007, the Internet, typing and other topics. less
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10:30 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history more of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present. less
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11:00 am
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Lecture | Japan Circa 1959 - The High-Growth Economy and the Social Effects of Television


A Brown Bag Lecture from the series "New Angles on Japanese Society in the 20th Century" with Yoshikuni more Igarashi, Associate Professor of History, Vanderbilt University. less
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | Kazakhstan's Refugee Crisis: Violence, Hunger and the Transformation of Broader Central Asia, 1930-1933


From 1930-1933, millions of Kazakhs fled the new Soviet republic of Kazakhstan. This flight was sparked more by crisis: the Kazakh famine of the 1930s, a disaster which led to the death of the nearly a quarter of the republic's population, perhaps as many as 1.5 million people. But the arrival of millions of starving Kazakhs in neighboring lands, including Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, the Russian SFSR and the Chinese province of Xinjiang, incited waves of violence, as well as outbreaks of disease. Kazakhs' flight provoked fundamental questions about the structure of the Soviet Union as a whole, particularly the rights and responsibilities of individual republics, as well as the regime’s commitment to its nationalities policy. More broadly, this crisis, as well as the regime's response, helped reshape the ethnic balance of contemporary Central Asia. A lecture by Sarah Cameron (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale University). less
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12:00 pm
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Author Reading | Kim, Kourtney & Khloe Kardashian discuss their book Kardashian Konfidential


A book of photos, memorabilia, diary entries, datebook pages, and old valentines the girls sent to each more other, as well as other artifacts. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:00 pm
Free

Workshop | Learn to Juggle in the Park


Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome more to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Jazz | The Gotham Jazzmen


Dixieland jazz.
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12:00 pm
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Tour | “The Castle and its Kingdom”


Take a walk around the lands dominated by the Castle, situated high on Vista Rock. Visit the tiny 55-acre more realm on an eclectic tour of history and nature. Tour is approximately one hour. less
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12:00 pm
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Concert | 80s singer El DeBarge performs from his CD Second Chance


One of R&B's most distinctive voices returns to the spotlight after more than a decade-and-a half-away. more The album-which features the work of such legendary producer/songwriters as Babyface and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis alongside tracks by new hitmakers including Mike City, the Avila Brothers and Michael Angelo-tells the story of DeBarge's redemption following a period of personal turmoil. less
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Downtown: Where New York Began Tour


A tour of Downtown — its history, architecture, and art, and its fascinating denizens. Tour includes more Federal Hall, the U.S. Stock Exchange, Trinity Church, Fraunces Tavern, U.S. Custom House, and Bowling Green. Led by a professional tour leader. Adults, please bring photo ID. less
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12:30 pm
$10 suggested donation

Concert | Piano Works by Beethoven and Chopin


Program: Ludwig von Beethoven – Sonata in A Major, Op. 101 Isaac Albéniz – El Corpus Christi in more Sevilla Frédéric Chopin - Scherzo No. 3, Op. 39 Presenting Christopher Schmitt, solo piano. less
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12:30 pm
Free

Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history more of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present. less
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1:00 pm
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Screening | Short Films on Native Americans


Showing: Clay Beings and With the Grain: The Life and Art of Willard Stone. Starts at 1pm and 3pm.
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Featured Library Database: New York Times (1851-2006)


Hands on using wireless laptops. Search for articles and page images in back issues of the New York Times. more Find histrorical headlines, news stories, book, film and theater reviews, obituaries, advertisements and more. less
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1:15 pm
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Film | Preston Sturges' Comedy Christmas in July (1940): Jingle Bells


With Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, and William Demarest. An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes more of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize. 67 min. less
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Shopping Online: A Guide to Bargain-Hunting


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn about safe, secure, and reputable shopping websites that offer more money-saving deals and rebates. less
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2:30 pm
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Discussion | Panel on Religion, Prisons & Prisoner Reentry


Panelists: -Theresa Lantz, Former Commissioner of Corrections of the State of Connecticut Lantz was more appointed as the sixth Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Correction on March 11, 2003. She resigned in order to retire in the summer of 2009. -Steve Lanza, Executive Director of Family ReEntry Lanza is currently the Executive Director and Clinical Director for Family ReEntry, a leading nonprofit community justice agency. For over twelve years, he has served the Greater Fairfield County area in the fields of domestic violence, and victim/offender counseling. -Rev. Dr. Raymond Rivera, Founder, President and C.E.O. of Latino Pastoral Action Center. Rivera has been involved in ordained ministry with a concern for urban life since 1964. In the late-1960s through the 1970s, Rev. Dr. Raymond Rivera was Co-Founder and Chairperson of the Sunset Park Re-development Housing Initiatives in Brooklyn. He was Community Coordinator of the Lutheran Medical Center and developed community outreach programs for clergy and community-based organizations. less
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Workshop | Career Workshop


Do you need to spruce up your resume and learn basic interview skills? Please join this career workshop. more Paula Marks will conduct the workshop. Her expertise falls mainly into the areas of staffing, employee relations, retention and workplace enhancement. Marks has conducted career presentations at events held at Cornell University, New York University, and the American Corporate Counsel Association. less
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Free and Low-Cost Health Insurance Workshop


Do you need health insurance? Think you can't afford or won't qualify for free or low cost health coverage? more You will learn about eligibility, qualifications and the application process for public health insurance from Medicaid, Family Health Plus, Child Health Plus, and other low-cost options. A representative will be available to speak with individuals after the program. This workshop is open to anyone and all screenings are confidential. less
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Lecture | Genealogy: Bright Lights, Urban Research


A lecture by Suzanne McVetty, CG, member of the New York Genealogical & Biographical Education Committee. more Tracing your city ancestors can be a daunting task compared to your country cousins. There are too many people with the same names living in cities where they are creating different kinds of records. How do you identify your needle in a city haystack? less
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Workshop | Meditation Journey to Peace


If life is a journey, then where are we going? Learn how a simple, yet profound meditation technique more can provide the compass. Access the source of all joy, peace and understanding through this time-tested method of self-discovery. Faciliated by Dr. Andrew Vidich. less
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Opening Reception | REALITY, WHAT REALITY?


The exhibition is composed of 24 artworks: photographs and paintings. “In the age of technology and more data communication the world is presented through means of images. Images in real time, communication in real time are the result not of an increase in universal knowledge, but of an in increase in technology. Our times are obsessed by real events. Indeed, but what is Real? There is no doubt that we live in a culture of avalanche of images and information. Everything has to be seen, everything has to be visible. Yet this excess of visibility in the end nullifies everything. It is a bit like the myth of Orpheus and Euridice. Orpheus turns round to look at her and Euridice disappears forever into Hades. These thoughts sprang to mind after reading the book by David Shields “Reality Hunger, a manifesto”. By means of aphorisms, the author gets right to the point of reality in relation to art. In parts Shields is near the vision of Baudrillard when he affirms that our culture lives in the paradox of excessive reality, just as a bulimic person will eat enormous quantities of food (read information and images) only to expel it all, and this craving for food-images translates into its exact opposite, the void, in the anxiety and the continuous desire for a reality tied to experience and to human relations. Artists necessarily have to come to terms with their times or be exiled from history and they are the perfect antidote to every form of prevarication inherent in the system of imposed images, from the domination of technocratic thought necessitated by consumption. The freedom not only of expression but of our very being is at stake. How to resist the tendency to reduce our lives to a media fiction? “The role of art – Pierre Restany wrote – is to awaken and purify the spirit”. All philosophers have questioned themselves about what reality is without ever reaching a complete and exhaustive definition. Foremost amongst them all, Nietzsche, who having foreseen the advent of nihilism, the culture which we are living today, exhorted us to be ourselves. Today a lot of our energy is directed towards a reality of appearances and conformity. The “know yourself” is the light which illuminates human existence. It is what the Greeks called eudemonia, referring to those who created their own “demon”, or rather their own specific virtue, the reason why we have come into the world. For this artists, by looking in and looking out, are the ones who more than anyone else can answer the question which as it happens is also the title of this exhibition: Reality, What Reality? Because in the never-rending flow of global communication, it is the assiduous patrons of the reign of the symbolic, of the invisible and the visible, who are the ideal interpreters of this dual reality. In synthesis: real or virtual, art has to stir deep emotions”. (Stefania Carrozzini) At 7 pm Stefano Losi, Italian poet and artist based in New York, will read his poem which is a collection of epigrams from the volume "Under the Burnt Walls", issued last March at the opening. less
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6:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Towards a Typology of Convergences


For the past decade, in the National Book Critics Circle Award winning Everything That Rises: A Book more of Convergences, Lawrence Weschler has been exploring the way images (but also poems, musical themes, etc.) set a context for the reception of subsequent instances. We see by way of what we have already seen. We create by way of our entire prior sensorium. In this talk, Weschler will consider a spectrum of such convergent effects, from apophenia (the tendency of humans to see patterns where none exist) through co-causation, fractalization, influence (forward and backward, direct and unconscious), homage, apprenticeship, allusion, quotation, appropriation, cryptonesia (verbatim appropriation without realizing you're doing so), through outright plagiarism. less
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Lecture | Tea Leaves: The Right, Before and After the Election


Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper Professor of American History at Harvard University, will speak.
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Discussion | A Conversation with the suberb Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto


Fred Plotkin hosts the suberb Italian bass, who is featured in this season's Met productions of Verdi's more Don Carlo and Simon Boccanegra. less
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6:30 pm
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Talk | A Sicilian Culinary Journey


With Renée Restivo, writer and culinary educator. Learn about the vibrant traditions and diverse cultural more influences that have shaped the appetizing fare of Sicily, the Mediterranean's largest island and Italy's largest region. Restivo began searching for her roots in Sicily over a decade ago, and discovered how her family's traditions were shaped by generations of farming. Soon after, she began offering culinary tours and founded Soul of Sicily. Now, after years of recipe gathering, collecting stories and interviewing small food artisans, she is rounding out her field research with invaluable texts from the library. From la cucina del contadino, the cookery of the farmer, to the la cucina nobile, the cookery of Sicily's aristocratic families -- she will take you on a fascinating tour of Sicily, share stories and photographs, and introduce you to the ingredients that place Sicilian gastronomy at the epicenter of sophisticated Mediterranean cooking. less
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Other | Dreidel-Palooza: A New “Spin” on Hannukah


A student-run organization invites the public to take part in breaking the Guinness record for most dreidels more spun at once. The event will include music, food and entertainment. less
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Discussion | Global Leaders: The Arab Peace Initiative


Join Professor Alon Ben-Meir for a conversation on the Arab Peace Initiative with the Ambassadors of more Iraq, Palestine, and Saudi Arabia. With: Hamid Al Bayati, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations; Riyad H. Mansour, Ambassador and Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations; and Khalid Abdalrazaq Al Nafisee, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations. less
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Author Reading | Mosette Broderick discusses her book Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White - Art, Architecture, Scandal and Class in America's Gilded Age


A fascinating saga of the most influential architectural firm of America’s Gilded Age, Triumvirate more details the dazzling rise of Charles McKim, William Mead, and Stanford White–three powerful figures who created many of America’s major monuments including New York's Pennsylvania Station, Boston Public Library, Columbia University campus and Low Memorial Library, and the Brooklyn Museum, among many others. Architectural and social historian Mosette Broderick weaves together the strands of biography and urban history, highlighting, the story of America in an era of transition from an unsophisticated young country, the role of architecture in social status, and the arrival of artists as an accepted class in American society. less
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Forum | Poets Kazim Ali and Lyrae Clief-Stefanon discuss their craft


Ali and Van Clief-Stefanon read from their work and engage in lively conversation about the craft of more poetry. Moderated by Camille Rankine, program and communications coordinator at Cave Canem Foundation. Ali is the author of two books of poetry, The Far Mosque, winner of Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award, and The Fortieth Day. He is also the author of the novel Quinn’s Passage, named one of “the Best Books of 2005” by Chronogram magazine. Van Clief-Stefanon (pictured) is the author of Open Interval and Black Swan, winner of the 2001 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She is the author, with Elizabeth Alexander, of the chapbook Poems in Conversation and a Conversation. less
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Workshop | Teach Yourself: Learn a New Language


Hands on using wireless laptops. Discover a wide selection of self-study resources to help you learn more a new language or brush up on one you’ve studied before. Class covers resources available through the library and free websites. less
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Author Reading | Ayun Halliday discusses the book Zinester's Guide to NYC


A zine-centric Zine-vasion featuring editor Ayun Halliday (The East Village Inky, author of No Touch more Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late) and several of the guidebook's esteemed contributors. less
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Discussion | Big Media: Pro and Con


Prof. RICHARD R. JOHN and Prof. TIM WU in conversation with Journalism School Dean NICHOLAS LEMANN. John, more a historian of communications at the Journalism School, is the author of Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications, and Wu, of the law school, is the author of The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires less
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Author Reading | Book Club: Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton


The History Reading Group talk about Chernow's latest biography.
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Other | Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony


With live and taped performances. The Christmas Tree is a world-wide symbol of the holidays in New York more City. The tree, traditionally a Norway Spruce, is illuminated by 30,000 environmentally friendly LED lights on five miles of wire, and crowned by a Swarovski crystal star. Tens of thousands crowd the sidewalks for the event and hundreds of millions watch the Tree Lighting Ceremony broadcast live across the globe. less
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Author Reading | Contributors read from The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History


The real history of the game is not its championships, which are indisputable, but the personalities more of its heroes, which are, at least, undisputed. The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History offers not only FreeDarko's signature style and humor but also an erudite and earnest history of the game. FreeDarko is a collective of like-minded writers and artists (Bethlehem Shoals, Jacob Weinstein, Dr. Lawyer IndianChief, Silverbird 5000 and Brown Recluse, Esq.) who gather to celebrate (and take down) the NBA. For their new book, they are joined by Tom Ziller, Eric Freeman, Joey Litman, J. Gabriel Boylan, author Pasha Malla and SLAM editor Lang Whitaker. Shoals, the chief operative of FreeDarko, has written for Slate, McSweeney's, The Nation and SLAM. Will Leitch will moderate the evening's discussion. less
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Author Reading | Edmund Morris discusses his book Colonel Roosevelt


The highly-anticipated sequel to Morris' bestselling The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex more is the revealing story of a seminal American figure's later years, Colonel Roosevelt. less
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Workshop | Introduction To Meditation


With Sharon Salzberg.
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$10 suggested donation

Discussion | Living the Fight: AIDS Activism


With Lolisa Gibson, Johnny Guaylupo, Charles Long, and Pedro Julio Serrano.
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Screening | Madeline Amgott 's Documentary Hans Hofmann: Artist/Teacher, Teacher/Artist (2003)


A joyous and colorful journey into the life of an amazing, but too often neglected, first-generation more Abstract Expressionist whose influence on the art world is immeasurable. Narrated by Robert De Niro, the film traces Hofmann’s progression from his early discovery of Impressionism as a young student in Munich; to his ten years in Paris where he fraternized with Picasso and Matisse, enthusiastically embracing the burgeoning Cubist and Fauvist movements; to his arrival in the United States at the age of 50. Teaching in New York, Berkeley, and Provincetown, beginning in the 1930s, Hofmann introduced a powerful new paradigm of avant-garde abstraction to a generation of young American artists hungry for a taste of European modernity. 56 min. less
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Open Mic | Women’s/Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike


Bina Sharif reads excerpts from “Manhattan Spleen” and “Sing Bird,” her ongoing projects which more offer an enlivened stream of consciousness into the lives of her characters. Christina Bruni reads from her memoir “Left of the Dial,” about the healing power of creativity and her rebellion in the face of illness. Hosted by Vittoria Repetto. Come out and deliver (up to) 8 minutes of your poetry, prose, songs and spoken word. less
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Author Reading | Zoe Leonard reads from her book You see I am here after all


A complement to Leonard’s installation on view at Dia:Beacon composed of vintage postcards of Niagara more Falls, this publication expands on several of the project’s thematic aspects. With essays by Lynne Cooke, Angela Miller, Ann Reynolds, and Lytle Shaw. less
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Concert | Chamber Music Department 2010/2011 - Evening Concert 1


This concert is a chamber music recital featuring ensembles from the College Division Chamber Music Program.
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Author Reading | Peter Filichia discusses his book Broadway Musicals: The Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of the Season 1959-2009


Filichia chats with actor Jim Brochu about his new book, which explores musical theater's highs and lows more over the last five decades. Performer Jake Wesley Stewart will offer samplings from the shows and there might have a surprise or two. less
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Concert | All4One Piano Duo performs from their new CD Classical & Jazz Music of the Americas


Featuring the music of Gershwin, Rodgers & Hart, Bernstein, Bill Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, more Billy Strayhorn, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, David Amram, Astor Piazzolla, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and more. The unconventional performance by the All4One Piano Duo is an aural and visual tour de force. Pianists Alexander Wu and Frank Ponzio seamlessly alternate solo and duo playing with storytelling and piano underscoring. less
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Concert | Interstudio Showcase


The pianists of Steinhardt perform solo works from all eras.
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Concert | Song Interpretation Class Recital Fall 2010


This concert is a semester-end performance of the Song Interpretation Class.
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Open Mic | Penny's Open Mic


Spoken word artists, musicians, comedians, and other creative folks are invited to put their two cents more in at this gathering hosted by Penny Pollak. less
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