Events for October 2011
WNYC Events
Opening Night-Jane Krakowski
Saturday, October 1, 2011
7:30 PM
Tony® Award winning and two-time Emmy® nominated singer and actress Jane Krakowski performs an unforgettable evening of show stopping hits. Krakowski has triumphed on screen and in live performance with her award winning roles on 30 Rock and Ally McBeal, stunning portrayal in the Broadway hit Nine, and newly released ...
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Lyonel Feininger Exhibit
Monday, October 3, 2011 through Sunday, October 16, 2011
"Lyonel Feininger's: At The Edge Of The World," is the artist's first retrospective in the United States in forty-five years, is the first ever to incorporate the full breadth of his art by integrating his well-known oils with his political caricatures.
The Greene Space
WQXR Presents The Metropolitan Opera in The Greene Space
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
7:00 PM
Met General Manager Peter Gelb previewed the season in conversation with Anna Netrebko and Deborah Voigt, presented video highlights from the season-opening performance of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena featuring Ms. Netrebko as well as footage from Die Walküre featuring Ms. Voigt.
The Greene Space
Lopate and Locavores: Bread and Grain
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
7:00 PM
Founder of the Hot Bread Kitchen Jessamyn Waldman, chef and owner of Pizza a Casa Pizza School Mark Bello, and owner of the Sullivan St. Bakery Jim Lahey joined Leonard Lopate to discuss the art of baking bread and more.
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Remembering 9/11
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 through Sunday, January 8, 2012
In commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the International Center of Photography is collaborating with the National September 11 Memorial Museum on Remembering 9/11, a major exhibition of photography and video that addresses the issues of memory and recovery from disaster and explores how New ...
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Mariinsky Orchestra
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
8:00 PM
The Mariinsky Orchestra begins its cycle of Tchaikovsky’s six symphonies with the first and the last. Tchaikovsky wrote his inaugural symphony as his career was blossoming in Moscow, where he took a teaching position at the Moscow Conservatory in 1866.
The Greene Space
Lopate and Locavores: Sustainable Seafood
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
7:00 PM
Founder of the Blue Ocean Institute and author Carl Safina, co-owner of Le Bernadin Eric Ripert, oyster raiser Karen Rivara join Leonard Lopate to shuck oysters and discuss sustainable seafood.
WNYC Events
Community Advisory Board Meeting - October 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
New York Public Radio's Community Advisory Board wants your feedback. Join them at 7:00pm for a public meeting to share your thoughts about WNYC and WQXR. All are welcome!
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An Evening with David Sedaris
Thursday, October 13, 2011
8:00 PM
With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers. The great skill with which he slices through cultural euphemisms and political correctness proves that Sedaris is a master of satire and one of the most observant writers addressing the human condition today.
The Greene Space
WQXR presents the Emerson String Quartet
Sunday, October 16, 2011
5:00 PM
The quartet celebrates its 35th anniversary this season and in this concert, they offer a sneak preview of their new all-Mozart disc.
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Dancing at Laghnasa
Monday, October 17, 2011
8:00 PM
DANCING AT LUGHNASA opened on Broadway in October, 1991 and won the 1992 Tony Award for Best Play.
WNYC Events
Afro-Punk CMJ Showcase " Death to Hip Hop"
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Fasten your seat belts, Afro-punk is about to take you on a wild ride at this year's CMJ Festival in New York. The "DEATH to HIPHOP" show will feature punk pioneers Death, badass newcomers Cerebral Ballzy, hip-hop/rock/electro misfits Ninjasonik and hip-hop crew Jersey Klan + DJ Stack-Aly.
Specials:
- One attendee will win a punked out custom jacket by Malik Panther.
- Attendees will be given raffle tickets to win a 2012 Kink Curb BMX bike (in promotion of Red Bull Trick Or Treat event).
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Afro-Punk Presents Death to Hip Hop: A CMJ Showcase
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
8:00 PM
Featuring punk pioneers Death, newcomers Cerebral Ballzy, hip-hop/rock/electro misfits Ninjasonik and hip-hop crew Jersey Klan + DJ Stack-Aly.
The Greene Space
The Real Cost of Unemployment
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
7:00 PM
The NEXT New York Conversation explores THE REAL COST OF UNEMPLOYMENT – to individuals and families, personal and mental health, and to communities and the nation.
WNYC Events
Soundcheck With John Schaefer: Live at Chelsea Market
Thursday, October 20, 2011
2:00 PM
FREE Concert and Party!
Take part in a crowdsourcing experiment to propose lyrics for a national anthem for a fictional People's Republic of Antarctica. Plus, Chinese-born, New York-based composer Huang Ruo talks about his controversial new opera and collaborates live on stage with DJ Spooky.
And enter to win an iPad.
The Greene Space
New Voices in the American Theatre
Monday, October 24, 2011
7:00 PM
In celebration of Theatre Communication Group’s 50th anniversary, the national organization for American theatre, The Greene Space at WNYC and WQXR presents four events featuring conversations with TCG playwrights.
The Greene Space
Radiolab in Rehearsal
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
7:00 PM
Jad and Robert are gearing up to hit the road with the next live Radiolab show. But before they hop in the tour bus, they could use a little feedback from a live audience.
The Greene Space
The Global Salon: Cities in Egypt
Thursday, October 27, 2011
7:00 PM
Our Egyptian salon transcended an energy of advocacy with the uprisings in Cairo's Tahrir Square as its nucleus and expanded this focal force to surrounding areas of the region and the evolving political and cultural transformations.
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Impulse Records at 50
Friday, October 28, 2011
8:00 PM
Eric Reed will open the concert with his ensemble Surge, including bassist Rodney Whitaker, drummer Willie Jones III, tenor saxophonists Seamus Blake and Stacy Dillard, trombonists Andre Hayward and Danny Kirkhum, trumpeter Jim Rotondi, and vocalist Andy Bey. They will feature the music of various Impulse artists including Oliver Nelson, ...
WQXR Events
NTD Television's International Future Stars Recital
Sunday, October 30, 2011
To celebrate the fifth annual Chinese International Vocal Competition, NTD will present the Future Stars Recital at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium, featuring world-renowned soprano Lucia Aliberti and past winners of NTD’s Chinese International Vocal and Violin Competitions.