Kronos
What's up? New York 26 -1
Friday, Jul 26
7:00AM
free
Bret Michaels, Lead Singer of Poison
Fox News Plaza
, 48th St. & Sixth Ave.
Bret Michaels made a name fronting hard rock outfit Poison
and has tried to forge a solo career in country music.
Concert
Friday, Jul 26
7:00AM
free
Train, Grammy-Winning Pop Rockers
Rockefeller Plaza
, bet. 48th & 51st Sts. and Fifth & Sixth Aves.
Train is an American pop rock band from San Francisco,
California. The band currently consists of a core trio of Pat Monahan (vocals),
Jimmy Stafford (guitar), and Scott Underwood (drums).
Attendees are advised to arrive early.
Concert
Friday, Jul 26
7:00AM
free
Selena Gomez, Teen Pop Sensation
Central Park, Rumsey Playfield
, off the Fifth Ave. & 72nd St. entrance
1-212-360-2777
Selena Gomez is an American singer and actress. In 2009,
Gomez released her first studio album as Selena Gomez & the Scene, titled
Kiss & Tell. The album was a commercial success, peaking inside the Top 10
of the Billboard 200.
Attendees are encouraged to arrive at 6:00am when the Park
opens to the public.
Concert
Friday, Jul 26
12:00PM
free
Lunchtime Listen: Levi Stephens
West Harlem Piers Park
, W. 130th & Marginal Sts.
1-212-408-0219
Lunchtime sounds even better now. Enjoy the ambient acoustics
every last Friday of the month. Bring a bag of yummies and drink in the
reverberations.
Today, guitarist Levi Stephens takes listeners to his own
happy place.
Concert
Friday, Jul 26
12:30PM
Dona Carter, Composer and Pianist
Bryant Park, Upper Terrace
, Sixth Ave. & 42nd St.
1-212-768-4242
Pianist, composer, music educator, and mentor to students of
all ages, Dona Carter has directed a variety of ensembles - large and small -
composing and arranging many original pieces. Future performances with her band
will include Cleopatra's Needle and the Hartford/Bushnell concert series this
summer.She has performed in a variety of venues, in the United States and
abroad often sharing the stage with other outstanding musicians and singers.
Film
Friday, Jul 26
1:30PM
free
John Huston's Oscar Winner Key Largo (1948): Bogey and
Bacall
Ottendorfer Library
135 Second Ave.
1-212-674-0947
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, and Lauren
Bacall.
Frank McCloud visits the father of an old friend only to
discover that his hotel in the Florida Keys has been taken ove
FRee
Found
Sound Nation, New-Music Experimenters
Lincoln
Center, Josie Robertson Plaza
10
Lincoln Center , Columbus Ave. bet. 62nd & 65th Sts.
1-212-875-5000
Festival
performers, enthusiastic audience members, and unsuspecting passersby can lay
down a track with this mobile production team, the education and outreach wing
of preeminent new-music experimenters Bang on a Can. Creating on the fly, they
turn spontaneous sonic expressions into catchy tracks for later download.
Performance
Friday,
Jul 26
6:00PM
Free;
RSVP required
Chinese
American Arts Council performs Romance of the Iron Bow
Lincoln
Center, Hearst Plaza
40
Lincoln Center, 65th St. bet. Columbus & Amsterdam Aves.
1-212-875-5000
With
women warriors, thwarted lovers, mistaken identities, and wry banter, this
engaging Chinese musical theater classic bursts with cheeky humor, riveting
movement, and stunning costumes. Five actors and ten musicians reveal the full
pleasures of the tradition's fascinating vocal style, sprightly percussion, and
martial arts pyrotechnics.
Concert
Friday, Jul 26
6:00PM
free
The Jack Quartet plays new works
Bryant Park, Upper Terrace & Lawn Gravel
, Sixth Ave. & 42nd St.
1-212-768-4242
Reimagining the traditional string quartet, the ensemble
electrifies audiences with explosive virtuosity. Commission: Subject by Jason
Eckhardt.
Jazz
Friday, Jul 26
6:30PM
free
Christian Sands, Jazz Pianist
Marcus Garvey Park
, Rodgers Amphitheater, West 122nd Street & Fifth Avenue
1-212-866-3616
Christian Sands is an emerging jazz force. A recent Steinway
Artist, he possesses pianistic technique in abundance, but it perfectly matches
his conception. His use of understatement accomplishes a much deeper musical
goal. He takes a fresh look at the entire language of jazz: stride, swing,
bebop, progressive, fusion, Brazilian and Afro-Cuban.
Theater
Friday, Jul 26
6:30PM
free
Shakespeare's King Lear, the Classic Tragedy
Riverside Park
, Soldiers & Sailors Monument, 89th St. & Riverside
Dr.
1-212-560-6579
Lear will be played by Hudson Warehouse Artist-in-Residence
David Palmer Brown who has appeared in Hudson Warehouse productions since 2009.
The complex relationships and heart-breaking abuse in this Shakespeare classic
will be put together by director Jesse Michael Mothershed, also an
Artist-in-Residence with the ten-year-old company.
Concert
Friday, Jul 26
7:00PM
$3 suggested admission
Bluegrass & Americana: Trampled by Turtles / The Devil
Makes Three / River City Extension
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
, Bandshell
1-718-683-5600
A night of dangerous old-timey music. Combining fierce
musicianship with an intense energy, TRAMPLED BY TURTLES invest their
“supercharged songs with a hooky playfulness and white-knuckle power” (Esquire)
that’s dragging bluegrass kicking and screaming into the modern world.
They’re abetted here by THE DEVIL MAKES THREE, who traffic
in “bluegrass, folk, rockabilly, and Piedmont blues and ragtime, all played
with a blazing punk-rock attitude,” (SF Weekly) and the pop-infused Americana
sounds of New Jersey's RIVER CITY EXTENSION.
Jazz
Friday, Jul 26
7:00PM
free
Chuck Braman Jazz Band
Hudson River Park
, Pier 45, off W. 10th St.
1-212-627-2020
Chuck Braman was born in Cleveland in 1959, and moved to New
York City in 1989. He has had a varied career in jazz as an editor, critic,
speaker, teacher, theorist, author, drummer, and bandleader.
Concert
Friday,
Jul 26
7:30PM
free
Eclectic
Sounds: Kronos Quartet / The Gloaming
Lincoln
Center, Damrosch Park Bandshell
,
Amsterdam Ave. & W. 62nd St.
1-212-875-5000
The
Gloaming—the generation-spanning supergroup consisting of New York pianist
Thomas Bartlett (a.k.a. Doveman), sean nós ("old style") Gaelic
singer Iarla Ó Lionáird, Hardanger fiddler Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, and the
beloved duo, fiddler Martin Hayes and guitarist Dennis Cahill—keep the melodic
grounding, stately flourishes, and pulse of traditional Irish music, while
bringing it into the future with unexpected jazz and minimalism- inspired
twists and turns.
Kronos
Quartet brings its globally informed repertoire to contemporary explorations of
age-old sounds and instruments, with works either composed or arranged for the
Quartet by Omar Souleyman, Ramallah Underground, Ram Narayan, and others. A
world-premiere collaboration with Greek-American composer Magda Giannikou on
laterna, Strophe in Antistrophe reimagines the ancient call-and-response of
Greek choruses to portray the counterpoint and blending of two radically different
sonic propositions. Vietnamese multi-instrumentalist Vân-Ánh Vanessa Võ’s
mastery of her homeland's striking zithers, dulcimers, and percussion brings
out remarkably contemporary elements, the perfect foil for Kronos’s rich,
versatile sound.
Theater
Friday, Jul 26
8:00PM
free
Shakespeare Outdoors: Cymbeline, Presented by The Drilling
Company
Municipal Parking Lot
, Broome & Ludlow Sts.
1-212-873-9050
Cymbeline has a complex, not a simple narrative, and is
sometimes classified as a problem play because it is part history, part tragedy
and part comedy. The marriage of Imogen and Posthumus is tested in the context
of a rebellion of the Britons against the Roman Empire.
Shows are offered while the lot is in use. The action
sometimes happens around a parked car which drives away during a performance.
At such times, the players stop and the audience moves its chairs, pausing the
performance the same way a show would stop for rain uptown in Central Park.
It's all part of the fun.
Theater
Friday, Jul 26
8:00PM
free
Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew - Calypso Style
Riverbank State Park Amphitheatre
679 Riverside Dr., @ 145th St.
1-212-695-1596
The Pulse Ensemble Theatre presents this unique
interpretation of the Bard's comedy about the courtship of Petruchio, a
gentleman of Verona, and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew.
Theater
Friday, Jul 26
8:30PM
Free tickets required
Love's Labour's Lost, A New Musical Based on Shakespeare's
Comedy
Central Park, Delacorte Theater
, entrances at 81st St. & Central Park W. or 79th St
& Fifth Ave.
1-212-967-7555
Songs by Michael Friedman. Book Adapted by Alex Timbers.
Directed by Alex Timbers
Romance, revelry and enchanting music ignite in this
contemporary yet lovingly faithful musical adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy.
The King and his best buds decide at their five-year college reunion to swear
off the joys of women. But when four cute, clever girls from their past show
up, they’re forced to reconsider all of that nonsense! Smart, sexy, outrageous,
and irreverent, LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST is a madcap celebration of true love and
coming of age.
Obie Award winner MICHAEL FRIEDMAN (Bloody Bloody Andrew
Jackson) and two-time Tony Award nominee ALEX TIMBERS (Peter and the
Starcatcher) reunite for this fresh and unexpected evening of song, sonnets and
Shakespeare.
Workshop
Saturday, Jul 27
9:30AM
free
Health and Race Walking
Central Park
, Departs from the North Meadow Recreation Center (mid-Park
at 97th St.)
1-212-348-4867
Enjoy views of the Park's landscapes as you get fit. Coach
Lon Wilson of the New York Walkers Club leads walks at a moderate to brisk pace
over mostly flat surfaces. Wear comfortable sneakers! Ages 18+.
Dance Lesson
Saturday, Jul 27
10:00AM
free
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Limon Dance Company
Bryant Park, The Lawn
, Sixth Ave. & 42nd St.
1-212-768-4242
Experience the joy of movement and dance. Free classes are
led by former and current members of the internationally renowned modern dance
company, Limon Dance. Open to all levels and ages.
Festival
Saturday, Jul 27
11:00AM to 5:00PM
free
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New York City Poetry Festival
Governors Island
1-212-825-3045
The Poetry Society of New York will once again invite New
Yorkers to come together for this two day festival to celebrate NYC’s vibrant
poetry community. The event will include over 50 poetry organizations and 200
poets on its three stages; a Vendor’s Village where local booksellers, artists
and craftmakers will sell their wares; a beer garden sponsored by Brooklyn
Brewery; healthy and delicious food options; poetic installation art
throughout, and, of course, the Children’s Festival at NYCPF, this year
sponsored by Writopia.
Concert
Saturday,
Jul 27
11:30AM
free
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Found
Sound Nation, New-Music Experimenters
Lincoln
Center, Josie Robertson Plaza
10
Lincoln Center , Columbus Ave. bet. 62nd & 65th Sts.
1-212-875-5000
Festival
performers, enthusiastic audience members, and unsuspecting passersby can lay
down a track with this mobile production team, the education and outreach wing
of preeminent new-music experimenters Bang on a Can. Creating on the fly, they
turn spontaneous sonic expressions into catchy tracks for later download.
Film
Saturday, Jul 27
1:00PM
free
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Gore Verbinski's Oscar-Winning Rango (2011): Animated
Western
115th Street Library
203 W. 115th St.
1-212-666-9393
With Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin.
Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in
the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new
sheriff.
107 min.
Dance Performance
Saturday, Jul 27
2:00PM
free
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The Young Dancemakers Company
Library for the Performing Arts
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
1-917-275-6975
The Young Dancemakers are a unique summer ensemble of NYC
teens touring city-wide performing original choreography created by teens. In
their 18th Season the Young Dancemakers are joined by guest artist Doug Elkins
and led by director Alice Teirstein and muscial director William Catanzaro.
Concert
Saturday,
Jul 27
4:30PM
free
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Found
Sound Nation, New-Music Experimenters
Lincoln
Center, Josie Robertson Plaza
10
Lincoln Center , Columbus Ave. bet. 62nd & 65th Sts.
1-212-875-5000
Festival
performers, enthusiastic audience members, and unsuspecting passersby can lay
down a track with this mobile production team, the education and outreach wing
of preeminent new-music experimenters Bang on a Can. Creating on the fly, they
turn spontaneous sonic expressions into catchy tracks for later download.
Concert
Saturday, Jul 27
7:00PM
free
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Steve Tarshis and His Instrumental Trio
Riverside Park
, at the tennis lawn overlooking the Hudson River at 97th
St.
1-212-978-0277
Calling all blankets, picnic baskets, and candles!
This week’s performer: Steve Tarshis and his Instrumental
Trio, with special guests. Live music at its best. Jazz, folk, blues &
rock, with special guest vocalists. Perfect on a summer night.
Concert
Saturday,
Jul 27
7:00PM
free
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Soul
Sounds: Lianne La Havas / LP / Quadron
Central
Park, Rumsey Playfield
, mid-Park
off Fifth Avenue at 69th Street
1-212-360-2777
Lianne
La Havas received her first keyboard at just 7 years old, and has been a
growing talent ever since then. With popular neo-soul artists as inspiration,
such as Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill, her style has traces of jazz, soul, and
folk mixed with her own expressive approach.
Often
rocking out with her ukulele in front of her dynamic, versatile band, LP has a
voice that is instantly ear-catching, a natural instrument of power and grace.
Fueled by a contagious, pure love of performing, LP’s stage presence is
inherently powerful with a free-flowing, infectious confidence honed through
her years of touring.
First
introduced by a mutual friend, vocalist Coco O., and
multi-instrumentalist/producer Robin Hannibal had immediate chemistry. Dubbing
themselves Quadron, the two began making waves with the Motown-inspired single,
“Slippin’” making them a darling among music critics.
Concert
Saturday,
Jul 27
7:30PM
Free;
tickets available at box office starting 10am
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Mostly
Mozart Festival Orchestra: Free Preview Concert
Lincoln
Center, Avery Fisher Hall
10
Lincoln Center Plaza, between West 62nd and 65th Streets and Columbus and
Amsterdam Avenues
1-212-875-5000
Program:
Mozart:
Symphony No. 40 Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Film
Saturday, Jul 27
8:00PM
free
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Mike Nichols' Oscar Winner Working Girl (1988): Corporate
Intrigue
South Street Seaport
, Front & Fulton Sts.
1-212-732-8257
Stars Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Melanie Griffith.
When a secretary’s idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an
opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss’s job.
113 min.
Concert
Saturday, Jul 27
8:00PM
free
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Ozomatli, a Grammy-Winning Cross of Hip-Hop, Rock, Funk,
Salsa, Cumbia, and More
Lincoln Center, Damrosch Park Bandshell
, Amsterdam Ave. & W. 62nd St.
1-212-875-5000
L.A. culture-mashing collective Ozomatli retakes the stage
for a full-on border-crossing set of hip-hop and rock, funk, salsa, cumbia, and
more. With an activist spirit to match its hard-hitting beats, the
multi-Grammy-winning band captures the sound of a drop-top drive down sonically
diverse Sunset Boulevard.
Jazz
Sunday, Jul 28
2:00PM
free
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David P. Stevens, Jazz Singer-Songwriter
Central Park, Charles A. Dana Discovery Center
, inside Central Park at 110th St. between Fifth & Lenox
aves
1-212-860-1370
Multi-talented contemporary jazz, neo-fusion, R&B,
nu-soul guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer, arranger,
multi-instrumentalist, and recording studio engineer David P. Stevens invites
you to take a musical journey with him through the “The DPS Experience” which
deftly incorporates elements of the modern jazz, R&B, soul, dance, hip-hop,
rock, blues, and pop. Bridge the gaps of time and unwind as you groove to his tunes.
Workshop
Sunday, Jul 28
3:00PM
Free; donations accepted
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Beginner's Mind: Weekly Guided Meditation
Interdependence Project
302 Bowery, 3rd fl./middle buzzer
1-917-675-7151
Meditation instruction and sitting practice led by teachers
David and Heather. Appropriate for beginners as well as experienced meditators,
this afternoon session offers guided instruction, discussion, and opportunity
for questions and comments in an encouraging and compassionate environment.
Concert
Sunday, Jul 28
3:00PM
free
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Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Critically Acclaimed Hip-Hop
Duo
Central Park, Rumsey Playfield
, mid-Park off Fifth Avenue at 69th Street
1-212-360-2777
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, the critically acclaimed
Hip-Hop duo emerged onto the music scene in 1991 with their debut EP, All
Souled Out which was followed by the release of the classic LP, Mecca and the
Soul Brother. As one of Hip-Hop’s most iconic producers, Pete Rock utilized
obscure soul and jazz records as sample resources, frequently making use of
horn-driven hooks. Lead vocalist C.L. Smooth’s vocal style tended toward the
philosophical.
Workshop
Monday, Jul 29
7:30AM
Free; registration required
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Early Morning Yoga
Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 6
1-718-222-9939
This hour-long yoga class on Pier 6 integrates postures,
breathing exercises, relaxation and meditation to stretch, strengthen and
condition. All levels are welcome. Limited mats available. Registration opens
30 minutes prior to class.
Jazz
Monday, Jul 29
12:30PM
free
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Deanna Witkowski, Winner of the Great American Jazz Piano
Competition
Bryant Park, Upper Terrace
, Sixth Ave. & 42nd St.
1-212-768-4242
Winner of the Great American Jazz Piano Competition and a
past guest on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, Deanna Witkowski brings an
exuberance and vitality of spirit to her fusions of jazz, Brazilian,
Afro-Cuban, and classical music.
Jazz
Monday, Jul 29
7:00PM
free
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Brianna Thomas
Stuyvesant Cove Park
, east of FDR Drive at 20th St., on the East River
1-212-505-6050
Jazzmobile brings the 2009 winner of their "Best of the
Best" New York vocalists to perform.
Workshop
Monday, Jul 29
7:00PM
free
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Lego Architecture Studio
Barnes & Noble Upper West Side
2289 Broadway, @ 82nd St.
1-212-362-8835
The first-ever event for Lego Architecture Studio. Adults
and teenagers will have fun building an architectural object of their own
design.
Film
Monday, Jul 29
8:00PM
free
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Billy Wilder's Oscar Nominee A Foreign Affair (1948): Berlin
Triangle
Bryant Park, The Lawn
, Sixth Ave. & 42nd St.
1-212-768-4242
With Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund.
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an
ex-Nazi cafe singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.
116 Min.
The lawn opens at 5:00pm for blankets and picnicking. Films
begin at sunset (typically between 8pm and 9pm).
Concert
Tuesday, Jul 30
5:30PM
free
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The 5th Annual Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival:
Rasputina / Betty
City Winery
155 Varick St., @ Vandam St.
1-212-608-0555
Rasputina is a cello-driven band based in New York that is
renowned for their unconventional and quirky music style as well as their
fascination with historical allegories and fashion, especially those pertaining
to the Victorian era. The sound and visual concepts that began in Creager's
1991 Rasputina manifesto presaged and influenced movements and trends such as
Modern Victorians, Steampunk, freak folk, corsetry, and crafting.
Concert
Tuesday, Jul 30
5:30PM
free
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A Tribe Called Red, a Cross-Cultural Musical Mash-Up
Brookfield Place (formerly World Financial Center)
220 Vesey St.
1-212-417-7000
A Tribe Called Red’s trio of DJs – NDN, Bear Witness, and
Shub – create a unique, never-before-heard sound built from a foundation of
Native American chants combined with hip-hop, dance hall, and dubstep, to form
a cross-cultural musical mash-up they call “pow wow step.” Based in Ottawa,
this crew reimagines pow wow music for Canada’s increasingly urbanized
aboriginal youth, reclaiming clichés and transforming them into club beats.
Workshop
Tuesday, Jul 30
5:30PM
free
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Citizen Cartography: Tracing Old New York
Stephen A. Schwarzman Library
476 Fifth Ave.
1-917-275-6975
Help build the geospatial library of the future! This
workshop will get you oriented with the a set of tools the Library has
developed that enables librarians and the general public to digitize or
"trace" important historical features from old maps. This means
capturing boundaries, roads, and even building-level details including historical
street addresses to create new public data sets of geographic information.
Workshop
Tuesday, Jul 30
7:00PM
Free; advance reservations required
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Summer Sparks Outdoor Learning Festival
Hudson River Park
, Pier 63 at W.23rd St.
Reservations 1-212-729-4088
NYC's first-ever, outdoor summer learning festival, SUMMER
SPARKS will host highly unique, pop-up classes and make them available to the
public. Classes will be taught by the city's leading instructors and will range
in topics from iPhone-photography, juggling and salsa, to kimchi-making,
origami, banjo and more. All skill levels welcome - only curiosity required.
Concert
Tuesday, Jul 30
7:00PM
free
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Metropolitan Opera stars perform arias and duets
Jackie Robinson Park
, W. 147th St. & Bradhurst Ave.
1-212-360-2777
An evening of favorite opera arias and duets by
up-and-coming Met artists Ying Fang (soprano), Mario Chang (tenor), and Brandon
Cedel (bass-baritone), accompanied by pianist Bradley Moore.
Concert
Tuesday,
Jul 30
7:30PM
free
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The
Knights perform works by Stravinsky, Bach and Britten
Central
Park, Naumburg Bandshell
,
Closest entrances: Fifth Ave. & 72nd St. and Central Park West & 72nd
St.
1-212-310-6600
Program:
Carl
Philipp Emanuel Bach Sinfonia in C Major, Wq. 182, No.3
Igor
Stravinsky Concerto in D
Johann
Sebastian Bach Concerto for Oboe & Violin in C minor, Bwv. 1060
Benjamin
Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn, & Strings, Op. 31
The
Knights are "on a fast track to the top of the chamber orchestra
ladder." (Cleveland Classical)
Concert
Tuesday, Jul 30
8:00PM
free
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Music of East Africa
Washington Square Park
, Fifth Ave. & Washington Sq. N.
1-212-252-3621
Music of East Africa featuring Nepo Soteri, guitarist,
singer and composer who survived the Rwandan civil war. His music is directly
influenced by the raw rhythms and stylized sounds unique to such African
countries as Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia, from which spring the roots of
American jazz. Preceding the concert in the afternoon, will be a children’s
interactive rhythm workshop with African musicians.
Concert
Wednesday, Jul 31
12:20PM
free
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Bach at Noon
Grace Church
802 Broadway, @ 10th St.
1-212-254-2000
The keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach offered in
30-minute meditations.
Talk
Wednesday, Jul 31
1:15PM
free
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Identity Theft
Science, Industry and Business Library
188 Madison Ave.
1-917-275-6975
This class is designed to increase awareness of what
identity theft is, how it is accomplished, how to prevent it, and what to do if
your identity has been compromised.
Concert
Wednesday, Jul 31
6:00PM
free
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Indie Pop: Erin McKeown / Lake Street Dive
Madison Square Park
, Madison Ave. & E. 23rd St.
1-212-538-1884
Erin McKeown has been touring the globe for the last 12
years as a writer, performer, and multi-instrumentalist with eight full-length
records and three EPs under her belt. McKeown’s compelling and energy-packed
stage show teamed with her seemingly effortless ability to bridge genres has
garnered her international acclaim.
Lake Street Dive, composed of drummer Mike Calabrese,
bassist Bridget Kearney, vocalist Rachael Price, and trumpet-wielding guitarist
Mike “McDuck” Olson, encompasses a myriad of possibilities within its members’
collective experiences, and the resultant music is a vivid, largely acoustic,
groove-driven strain of indie-pop.
Bring a blanket for lawn seating; no chairs are allowed.
Jazz
Wednesday, Jul 31
6:00PM
free
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Michael Arenella and His Dreamland Orchestra
Bryant Park, Fountain Terrace
, Sixth Ave. & 42nd St.
1-212-768-4242
The world's premier Jazz-Age dance orchestra, steeped in the
hot-dance band tradition of the 1920s and early 1930s.
Gallery Talk
Wednesday, Jul 31
6:30PM
free
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Artists-in-Residence Presentations & Discussion
EFA Project Space
323 W. 39th St., 2nd fl.
1-212-563-5855
Please join 2012/13 participants in the Residency for Arts
Workers as Artists, as they reach the conclusion of the year-long residency.
The participants will share the work they have been doing, and then will engage
an open discussion with the audience. Artists include Jonathan Durham, Francis
Estrada, Howard Halle, Elizabeth Hamby, Jamie Kim, Naomi Miller, and Sarah
Walko.
Jazz
Wednesday, Jul 31
7:00PM
free
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Lynette Washington, Jazz Vocalist
Riverside Park
, Grants Tomb, Riverside Drive & West 120th Street
1-212-866-3616
Lynette Washington (born in New York) is an American jazz
vocalist. She was the winner in the Jazzmobile Anheuser-Busch Jazz Vocal
Competition in 2005.
Bring your Picnic Basket and Chair or Blanket for the Lawn.
Slide Lecture
Wednesday, Jul 31
7:00PM
free
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Sydney Pollack's Oscar Nominee Three Days of the Condor
(1975): CIA Thriller
Mid-Manhattan Library
455 Fifth Ave., at 40th St.
1-917-275-6975
Stars Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson.
A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and
must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
117 min.
Dance Performance
Wednesday, Jul 31
8:00PM
free
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Rock Steady Crew's Ghetto Made, a World Premiere
Central Park, Rumsey Playfield
, mid-Park off Fifth Avenue at 69th Street
1-212-360-2777
Originally founded in 1977 in the Bronx by Jimmy D and Jimmy
Lee, Rock Steady Crew has become one of the most well-known and recognizable
B-Boy groups in the world. These pioneers and creators of break-dancing used
dance battles as a means of recruitment to grow its talented team and gain
national acclaim while touring throughout the world. Since its formation, Rock
Steady Crew has adapted all aspects of Hip-Hop, from DJ’s to Emcee’s, and from
Writers to B-Boys & B-Girls.
Film
Wednesday, Jul 31
8:00PM
free
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J.J. Abrams' Oscar Winner Star Trek (2009): Sci-Fi Reboot
South Street Seaport
, Front & Fulton Sts.
1-212-732-8257
With Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy.
The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's
legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful, time-traveling
Romulan creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.
127 min.
Film
Wednesday, Jul 31
8:30PM
free
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Movies Under the Stars: Norman Jewison's Oscar-Winning
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Riverside Park
, Pier 1, W. 70th St. & the Hudson River
1-212-408-0219
Stars Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey. In pre-revolutionary
Russia, a poor Jewish peasant must contend with marrying off his three
daughters while antisemitic sentiment threatens his home.
181 min.
Pack a picnic, bring a friend and settle in for a night at
the movies. Open Captioned. Movie starts at dusk (about 8:30pm).
Film
Wednesday, Jul 31
8:30PM
free
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Wes Anderson’s Oscar-Nominated Moonrise Kingdom (2012): Teen
Elopers
Hudson River Park
, Pier 63 at W.23rd St.
1-212-627-2020
Stars Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Jared Gilman.
A pair of precocious 12-year-olds fall in love and run away
together. Tensions rise as the townspeople gather to find the young couple as a
strong storm approaches.
94 min. Free popcorn.
Concert
Thursday, Aug 1
5:00PM to 7:00PM
free
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Accordions Around the World
Bryant Park
, Sixth Ave. & 42nd St.
1-212-768-4242
Featured today:
Robert Duncan - Classical, Tango & Musette
Jordan Shapiro - Balkans, Louisiana & Maritime Folk
Maria Dessena - Modern Classics Re-imagined
Shoko Nagai - Japan-Jewish Connection
Patrice Escandon and Kirk Damato - Shanties, Folksongs &
TMBG/Punk
Yuri Lemeshev - World, Film, Classical, Jazz
Accordionists will be stationed throughout the park to
surprise and delight passers-by.
Dance Performance
Thursday, Aug 1
6:00PM
free
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Open Rehearsal with Maracatu Nação Estrela Brilhante and
Nation Beat
Lincoln Center, Josie Robertson Plaza
10 Lincoln Center , Columbus Ave. bet. 62nd & 65th Sts.
1-212-875-5000
An open rehearsal with the powerful percussionists and
dancers from the Northeastern Brazil Carnaval champions and their New York
counterparts.
Dance Lesson
Thursday, Aug 1
6:00PM
free
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Dance Lessons and Performances
Union Square Park
, E. 16th St. & Union Square West
1-212-460-1200
Free dance lessons and performances by Peridance Capezio
Center.
Opening Reception
Thursday, Aug 1
6:00PM to 9:00PM
free
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The String and the Mirror, a Show of Sound-Based Works
Lisa Cooley Gallery
107 Norfolk St., bet. Rivington & Delancey Sts.
1-212-680-0564
The String and the Mirror attempts to replicate a
traditional approach to the presentation of sound based works, including a
range of strategies such as multi-channel systems, spatialized sound and data
sonifications. Rather than focusing on artists working with sound as an
expanded practice, this show will explore sound as ideology and ontology.
Concert
Thursday, Aug 1
7:00PM
free
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Metropolitan Opera stars perform arias and duets
Socrates Sculpture Park
32-01 Vernon Blvd., Queens
1-212-360-2777
An evening of favorite opera arias and duets by
up-and-coming Met artists Ying Fang (soprano), Mario Chang (tenor), and Brandon
Cedel (bass-baritone), accompanied by pianist Bradley Moore.
Dance Performance
Thursday, Aug 1
7:30PM
free
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Hip-Hop Dance: Kyle Abraham/Abraham.in.Motion / The Living
Word Project
Lincoln Center, Damrosch Park Bandshell
, Amsterdam Ave. & W. 62nd St.
1-212-875-5000
Two powerful hip-hop infused performance pieces grapple with
history, masculinity, and shifting identities.
Inspired by letters that Marc Bamuthi Joseph penned to his
unborn child, Word Becomes Flesh is a fluid choreopoem for five performers that
uses spoken word, dance, and live music to document a young single father's
perspective on pregnancy, critically, lyrically, and choreographically
examining race, male privilege, and the fraught concept of fatherhood.
In Pavement, Abraham.In.Motion re-imagines Boyz n the Hood
as a dance work set in Pittsburgh's historically black neighborhoods. The piece
pays comedic homage to hip-hop's backward jeans and high-top fade era, while
depicting the chronology of a culture burdened by discrimination, violence, and
genocide, where a lottery ticket holds the only hope for a way out.
Dance Performance
Thursday, Aug 1
8:00PM
$3 suggested admission
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Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, a Whimsical Infusion of
Classical and Modern Ballet
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
, Bandshell
1-718-683-5600
