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October 29 at 7:30pm
David Rubenstein Atrium · Upper West Side • $0
A free evening of chamber duets that puts you face to face with musicians from the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center. Rare pairings, serious talent, and a Q&A to geek out after.
October 29 at 7:30pm
Carnegie Hall · Midtown • Tickets start at $45 ($34 + $11 fee)
Fresh from a Bachauer Gold Medal victory, Korean pianist Youl Sun performs a program at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall featuring music by Gabriela Lena Frank and Texu Kim, Debussy's colorful Images, and Liszt's monumental Transcendental Études.
Oct. 30 & Oct. 31 at 11:30pm
David Geffen Hall · Manhattan
David Geffen Hall hosts the New York Philharmonic for a live orchestral screening of Get Out, bringing the film's suspenseful score directly into the concert hall for an all-ages evening performance.
October 29 at 6pm +3
Church of the Heavenly Rest · Upper East Side
Spine-tingling meets swoon-worthy: a string quartet plays Thriller, Psycho, and Stranger Things by candlelight in a soaring Fifth Avenue church. Halloween, but make it classy.
October 30 at 9:30pm
The Allen-Stevenson School · Manhattan • $109
Transcribing the complex kora works of Malian virtuoso Toumani Diabaté for solo classical guitar, Derek Gripper performs cyclical kumbengo variations during this seventy-five-minute concert at The Allen-Stevenson School.
October 30 at 7pm
St. Michael's Church · Upper West Side
Two radical New York composers turn 100, and this church concert dives into Feldman's hypnotic "Patterns in a Chromatic Field." Cellist TJ Borden gives a pre-show talk to help you surrender to its strange, expansive sense of time.
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Thu, Oct 29 · 7:00 PM
Instituto Cervantes · Midtown
Thu, Oct 29 · 8:00 PM
Zinc Bar · Greenwich Village
$35
Thu, Oct 29 · 9:00 PM
Zinc Bar · Manhattan
$35
Fri, Oct 30 · 7:30 PM
National Sawdust · Williamsburg
$40
Fri, Oct 30 · 7:00 PM
Bloomingdale School of Music · Upper West Side
Free
Fri, Oct 30 · 7:30 PM
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music · Hell's Kitchen
Fri, Oct 30 · 10:00 PM
Haswell Green's · Manhattan
$$
Fri, Oct 30 · 7:00 PM
54 Below · Midtown
$$$$
Fri, Oct 30 · 7:00 PM
Third Street Music School · East Village
Fri, Oct 30 · 7:30 PM
Tenri Cultural Institute · Greenwich Village
Free
Fri, Oct 30 · 7:30 PM
Trinity SchooI · Upper West Side
Fri, Oct 30 · 7:00 PM
Michael’s · Brooklyn
$$$
Fri, Oct 30 · 7:00 PM
The Jazz Gallery · Midtown
Sat, Oct 31 · 1:00 PM
Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra · Brooklyn Heights
Sat, Oct 31 · 7:30 PM
Washington Irving High School Auditorium · Gramercy
Sat, Oct 31 · 2:00 PM
Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse · Brooklyn Heights
Sat, Oct 31 · 1:00 PM
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church · Brooklyn Heights
Sat, Oct 31 · 11:00 AM
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church · Brooklyn Heights
Sat, Oct 31 · 2:00 PM
Brooklyn Bridge Park · Brooklyn
Free
Sat, Oct 31 · 2:00 PM
Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse · Brooklyn Heights
Sat, Oct 31 · 2:00 PM
Collective Retreats Governors Island · Governors Island
Sat, Oct 31 · 2:00 PM
Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse · Brooklyn Heights
Sat, Oct 31 · 2:00 PM
Brooklyn Bridge Park Boathouse, Pier 2 · Brooklyn Heights
Sat, Oct 31 · 4:00 PM
Scholes Street Studio · Southside
Sat, Oct 31 · 2:00 PM
Brooklyn Bridge Park · Brooklyn
Free
Sun, Nov 1 · 4:00 PM
Brooklyn Public Library - Central Branch · Brooklyn
Free
Sun, Nov 1 · 2:00 PM
Brooklyn Museum · Brooklyn
Sun, Nov 1 · 2:00 PM
Bargemusic · Brooklyn Heights
Sun, Nov 1 · 7:00 PM
Roulette Intermedium · Boerum Hill
$10-$35
Sun, Nov 1 · 5:00 PM
Commerce Street · West Village
Sun, Nov 1 · 2:00 PM
The Reform Temple of Forest Hills · Forest Hills
Sun, Nov 1 · 3:00 PM
Bohemian National Hall · Upper East Side
$20-$30
Sun, Nov 1 · 5:00 PM
Trinity Lutheran Church, Staten Island · Stapleton Heights
Free
Sun, Nov 1 · 4:00 PM
St. Paul's Church in the Village⛪ · Flatbush
Mon, Nov 2 · 7:00 PM
The National Arts Club · Gramercy
Mon, Nov 2 · 2:00 PM
Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church · Upper West Side
Mon, Nov 2 · 2:00 PM
Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church · Upper West Side
Mon, Nov 2 · 8:30 AM
Oculus World Trade Center · Manhattan
Tue, Nov 3 · 6:00 PM
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di New York · Upper East Side
Tue, Nov 3 · 2:00 PM
Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church · Upper West Side
Tue, Nov 3 · 5:15 PM
Holy Apostles Episcopal Church · Windsor Terrace
Tue, Nov 3 · 2:00 PM
Kaufman Music Center · Upper West Side
Tue, Nov 3 · 2:00 PM
Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church · Upper West Side
$25
Tue, Nov 3 · 6:30 PM
Consulate General of France · Upper East Side
$55
Wed, Nov 4 · 12:00 PM
Chelsea Market · Manhattan
Wed, Nov 4 · 12:00 PM
Chelsea Market · Chelsea
Wed, Nov 4 · 8:00 PM
Town Hall · Manhattan
$81.08 - $791.01
Wed, Nov 4 · 12:00 PM
Gotham Park · Civic Center
Wed, Nov 4 · 7:30 PM
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music · Hell's Kitchen
Free
Wed, Nov 4 · 12:00 PM
Chelsea Market · Manhattan
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