WNYC Giveaways: Events for November 2011

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The Music of Astor Piazzolla

Friday, November 11, 2011

8:00 PM

When the great Argentinean tango master Astor Piazzolla died in 1992, there were few musicians keeping his music alive. But thankfully (and in time to celebrate Piazzolla's 90th birthday) multi-instrumentalist and jazz ambassador Paquito D'Rivera has brought an unprecedented focus on tango's relationship to jazz, and on Piazzolla's central role ...

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My Sinatra

Saturday, November 12, 2011

7:30 PM

Cary Hoffman turns his celebrated PBS special into a very true, hilarious, and poignant one-man musical play about his love and idolization for his hero Frank Sinatra. Hoffman authentically sings just like his hero, as he weaves over 20 classic Sinatra songs, creating a musical score about his lifelong obsession.

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ADAM GYORGY The Island

Sunday, November 13, 2011

8:00 PM

  • LISZT Sonata in B Minor, Rigoletto Paraphrase, La Campanella, and Hungarian Rhapsody No.2
  • CHOPIN Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23

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She Loves Me: A Benefit Concert Reading

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

7:30 PM

With a melodic and witty score by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof) and a wonderful book by Joe Masteroff (Cabaret), She Loves Me is based on a play by Miklos Laszlo that also became the basis of the classic film The Shop Around the Corner and ...

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The 5 Browns

Saturday, November 19, 2011

7:30 PM

The 5 Browns have released 3 CDs that each went to #1 on Billboard Magazine's Classical Album Chart. The quintet has toured extensively exciting audiences around the world performing onstage individually and together in various combinations from duo to complex five-piano arrangements.

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The Descendants

Monday, November 21, 2011 through Wednesday, December 21, 2011

A land baron tries to re-connect with his two daughters after his wife suffers a boating accident. Starring George Clooney. 

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Moise et Pharaon

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

8:00 PM

This opera-in-concert presentation is Rossini’s enthralling French-language setting – replete with romance, intrigue, jealousy, vengeance, and acts of God – of Moses and his brother Eliezer leading the Jews out of the land of Pharaoh and into freedom, with the help of plagues and the parting ...

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Henry V

Friday, November 25, 2011

8:00 PM

Henry V is part of the 1599 Project, a series of fast and furious chamber productions of Shakespeare classics performed by the ensemble of eight actors