May 10, 2011
Free Memorial Day music: NY Philharmonic, Green-Wood
The New York Philharmonic has hit the road for a European tour, but they’ll return before the end of the month to play the annual free Memorial Day concert at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine.
Alan Gilbert will conduct the program, which will include Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, “Eroica.”
Seating for the 8 p.m. concert will be on a first-come, first-served basis with tickets distributed at St. John the Divine on the day of the concert. Music will also be piped onto the adjacent Pulpit Green if weather permits.
Elsewhere, Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery will host its free outdoor 13th Annual Memorial Day Concert at 3 p.m.
The ISO Symphonic Band will play melodies of the Civil War in addition and works of Green-Wood’s permanent residents Fred Ebb, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Leonard Bernstein and others. RSVPs are requested.
Earlier in the day, Green-Wood will host The March of Honor: Civil War 150th Anniversary at 11 a.m.
The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine is located at 1047 Amsterdam Ave., map.
Green-Wood Cemetery, a National Historic Landmark, is located at 500 25th St. in Brooklyn, map.
May 10, 2011 12:02 PM in Cheap Stuff, History, Out of Manhattan, Upper West Side
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