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Classes & Group Discussions  •  Discussion  •  General Interest  •  Jewish Culture  
Title: Basic Judaism for Jews and Non-Jews Alike
Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2010  •  Tuesday, September 21, 2010  
Time: 6:00 PM
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This course provides an overview of the Bible, Shabbat ritual and observances, how to observe kashrut (kosher dietary laws), and the Jewish laws of death and mourning. Bernice K. Weiss, author of Converting to Judaism - Choosing to be Chosen: Personal Stories will lead this comprehensive study program. Rabbi Weiss’ expertise of more than 18 years makes her a forerunner in the field of conversion and teaching interfaith couples.
Admission: The cost of the course is $118 plus a $10 registration fee.
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Cross Culture Awareness  •  Families  •  Jewish Culture  •  Religious Services  •  Shabbat  
Title: Shabbat Around the World – Celebrating Israel and Sukkot!
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010
Time: 5:00 PM
image Welcome Shabbat and Sukkot with a picnic under the stars and music by Israeli jazz musician Oran Etkin. Etkin will lead us in Shabbat blessings and perform music from his children's album, Wake Up Clarinet!, as well as selections for adults. Arrive at 5:00 pm to help decorate the sukkah. Dinner and the concert will begin at 5:30 pm.

Admission: The cost is $10/person; children under 2 admitted for free.
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General Interest  •  Jewish Culture  •  Religious Services  •  Shabbat  
Title: Downtown Shabbat with Larry Paul & Robyn Helzner
Date: Friday, September 24, 2010  •  Friday, October 22, 2010  •  Friday, November 26, 2010  •  Friday, December 24, 2010  
Time: 6:45 PM
image Drinks and appetizers - 6:00 pm
Services begin - 6:45 pm
Dinner - 8:00 pm

Join musician Robyn Helzner, one of the leading interpreters of world Jewish music, and Cantor Larry Paul for this spirited, musical, Carlebach-inspired service. Dinner and Shabbat singing follow the service (see admission information below for cost details).


Video credit: Philippa Levenberg
Admission: The cost per person for dinner is $6 in advance, $8 the day of the service.
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6th in the City: for 20s and 30s  •  Holidays  •  Jewish Culture  •  Religious Services  
Title: Sukkah Hop
Date: Saturday, September 25, 2010
Time: 8:00 PM

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Join the DC young professional Jewish community for a tour of DC’s finest sukkahs. Visit three locations with unique themes: Etrogs & Eggrolls, Lulavs & Leis, and Starlight & Sweets. Each location features unique food and drinks.

Please note that we will begin and end at two different metro-accessible locations. Itinerary will be provided upon registration. Driving oneself is not allowed.

For those in their 20s and 30s

      
Admission: Tickets are $30 until September 13th, $35 after, and include transportation and food and drinks at each site.
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6th in the City: for 20s and 30s  •  Fitness  •  Social  
Title: 6th in the City Running Club
September
Date: Monday, September 27, 2010
Time: 6:30 PM
image Join us for a refreshing evening run around town. After the run, we’ll enjoy dinner in the sukkah!

Meet at Sixth & I.
If you want to stay for dinner, please bring $6 with you.


For those in their 20s and 30s
Admission: Please RSVP to Allison, aadges@sixthandi.org, if you are a returning member. For new members, the cost is $12 (includes Running Club t-shirt and headband).
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Concerts  •  General Interest  •  Music  
Title: Patrizio Buanne
Date: Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Time: 8:00 PM

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The international platinum-selling recording artist has taken on the timeless art of delivering a romantic song; and he’s done it flawlessly. Fresh off the release of his third album, Patrizio, the Italian baritone takes his good looks and unforgettable ballads to the Sixth & I stage.

Admission: Tickets are $55 and can be purchased on Ticketfly.com, by calling 877.435.9849, or visiting Sixth & I Monday - Friday between Noon – 3:00 pm. On the night of the event, will-call and ticket sales will end at 10:00 pm. No one will be permitted to enter the event after that time. All seating is general admission. Doors open at 7:00 pm.
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Books  •  Cooking  •  Environment  •  Food  •  General Interest  •  Health  •  Talks, Lectures, Conversations  
Title: Mark Bittman
The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living
Date: Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM

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In The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living, Mark Bittman offers over 500 recipes for fresh, delicious dishes that rely largely on fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Fish, meat, and poultry are treated as garnishes and for those who prefer to avoid meat, there are plenty of vegetarian recipes.

The book also discusses why food matters to our health and to that of the planet. There’s information on what ingredients are best and how to buy seasonally, responsibly, and sustainably, whether you’re shopping for tomatoes or grass fed beef.

Bittman is the author of the New York Times column, "The Minimalist" and a frequent contributor to the newspaper's In/Dining Out section. His previous books include Food Matters, Mark Bittman's Kitchen Express, The Minimalist Cooks at Home, How to Cook Everything, and Fish.
Admission: Tickets are $12, or receive 2 FREE tickets with the purchase of the book ($35) through Sixth & I.
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Classes & Group Discussions  •  General Interest  •  History  •  Interfaith  •  Jewish Culture  
Title: JewPedia
Date: Wednesday, October 06, 2010  •  Wednesday, October 13, 2010  •  Wednesday, October 20, 2010  •  Wednesday, October 27, 2010  •  Wednesday, November 03, 2010  
Time: 7:00 PM
image This class meets every Wednesday, for five weeks, from October 6 - November 3.

JewPedia is a quick introduction (and reintroduction) to Jewish life and thought. Taught by Rabbi Avis Miller, this conversation-based class is for both Jews and non-Jews interested in broadening their understanding of Judaism in a comfortable environment. It's great for couples in interfaith relationships, people who may have Jewish ancestry, those exploring the possibility of conversion, and anyone just Jewishly curious.

Come as you are, and come with questions! Rabbi Miller, who conducts High Holiday services at Sixth & I, is a past president of the regional Rabbinical Assembly and has served as Chair of its national committee on Outreach and Conversion.
Admission: The cost is $75 for all 5 sessions.
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Comedy  •  Comedy  •  General Interest  •  Jewish Culture  
Title: Elon Gold: Half Jewish, Half Very Jewish
Date: Thursday, October 07, 2010
Time: 8:00 PM
image Comedian and actor Elon Gold, who is a regular on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and has starred in the sitcoms "Stacked" on FOX and NBC's "In-Laws", is bringing his hilarious one man show, "Half Jewish, Half Very Jewish" to Sixth & I for a one night only special event!

Elon's show premiered last year at the prestigious Just For Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival and was an instant smash hit. The show has been on tour across the U.S. and Canada to sold out crowds, standing ovations and rave reviews. It's a "Destined for Broadway" theatrical experience which has been touted by the Canadian Jewish News as "A 90 minute show, that is laced with hilarious observations about our traditions and culture!" We guarantee an evening of laughter, cultural pride, and a small dose of shame. Don't miss this rare opportunity to see why the Catskill Chronicle calls Gold, "A truly remarkable talent!"
Admission: Tickets are $21 in advance, $25 the day of the show. Tickets can be purchased on Ticketfly.com, by calling 877.435.9849, or visiting Sixth & I Monday-Friday between noon – 3:00 pm. On the night of the event, will-call and ticket sales will end at 10:00 pm. No one will be permitted to enter the event after that time. All seating is general admission. Doors open at 7:00 pm.
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Classes & Group Discussions  •  Families  •  Jewish Culture  
Title: Hopes & Dreams: Raising Jewish Children with Intention
Date: Friday, October 08, 2010  •  Friday, October 15, 2010  •  Friday, October 22, 2010  •  Friday, October 29, 2010  •  Friday, November 05, 2010  •  Friday, November 12, 2010  •  Friday, November 19, 2010  •  Friday, November 26, 2010  •  Friday, December 03, 2010  •  Friday, December 10, 2010  
Time: 10:30 AM
image Parent of a new Jewish baby? It’s a whole new world—diapers, late-night feedings, and family values. Join us for a new parent workshop where you can bring your baby, find support, and make new friends. Each week we’ll focus on a different topic of interest and share the values and experiences we hope to instill in our children’s lives. Led by Certified Parent Coach Michelle Stravitz.  Infants 0 – 6 months.

Class held from 10:30 am - Noon.

Admission: The cost is $180 for the series of 10 classes (space is limited to 10 families).
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Books  •  General Interest  •  Israel  •  Talks, Lectures, Conversations  
Title: David Grossman
To the End of the Land
Date: Thursday, October 14, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM

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From one of Israel’s most acclaimed writers, To the End of the Land is a novel about family life—the greatest human drama—and the cost of war.

Ora, a middle-aged Israeli mother, is on the verge of celebrating her son Ofer’s release from army service when he returns to the front for a major offensive. In a fit of preemptive grief, she sets out for a hike in the Galilee, leaving no forwarding information for the “notifiers” who could knock on her door with the worst possible news. Recently estranged from her husband, she drags along an unlikely companion: their former best friend and her former lover, Avram. Their walk has a “war and peace” rhythm, as their conversation places the most hideous trials of war next to the joys and anguish of raising children.

Grossman vividly depicts the reality and surrealism of daily life in Israel, the currents of ambivalence about war within one household, and the burdens that fall on each generation anew. His rich imagining of a family in love and crisis makes for one of the great antiwar novels of our time.
Admission: Tickets are $10, or receive 2 FREE tickets with the purchase of the book ($26.95). For the book+ticket option, call Politics & Prose at 202.364.1919. For tickets only, click the button below.
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Books  •  General Interest  •  Talks, Lectures, Conversations  
Title: Nicole Krauss
Great House
Date: Monday, October 18, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM

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For twenty-five years, a reclusive American novelist has been writing at the desk she inherited from a young Chilean poet who disappeared at the hands of Pinochet’s secret police; one day a girl claiming to be the poet’s daughter arrives to take it away, sending the writer’s life reeling. Across the ocean in London, a man caring for his dying wife discovers a lock of hair that unravels a terrible secret. In Jerusalem, an antiques dealer reassembles his father’s study, plundered by the Nazis in Budapest in 1944.

Connecting these stories is a desk of many drawers that exerts a power over those who possess it or have given it away. As the narrators of Great House make their confessions, the desk takes on more and more meaning, and comes to stand for all that has been taken from them, and all that binds them to what has disappeared. 

Nicole Krauss is the author of Man Walks into a Room and the international bestseller The History of Love. In 2010, The New Yorker named her one of the 20 best writers under 40.
Admission: Tickets are $10, or receive two (2) FREE tickets with the purchase of the book ($25). For the book+ticket option, call Politics & Prose at 202.364.1919. For tickets only, click the button below.
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Books  •  General Interest  •  Talks, Lectures, Conversations  
Title: V.S. Naipaul
The Masque of Africa
Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM
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Like all of V. S. Naipaul’s “travel” books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of civilization. V. S. Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He is the author of more than 20 books, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and The Writer and the World.


Admission: Tickets are $12, or receive 2 FREE tickets with the purchase of the book ($26.95). For the book+ticket option, call Politics & Prose at 202.364.1919. For tickets only, click the button below.
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Classes & Group Discussions  •  General Interest  •  Jewish Culture  
Title: Basic Judaism for Jews and Non-Jews Alike
Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2010  •  Tuesday, November 02, 2010  •  Tuesday, November 09, 2010  •  Tuesday, November 16, 2010  •  Tuesday, November 23, 2010  •  Tuesday, November 30, 2010  •  Tuesday, December 07, 2010  
Time: 6:00 PM
image 7-part series on Wednesdays from October 26 - December 7

This course provides an overview of the Bible, Shabbat ritual and observances, how to observe kashrut (kosher dietary laws), and the Jewish laws of death and mourning. Bernice K. Weiss, author of Converting to Judaism - Choosing to be Chosen: Personal Stories will lead this comprehensive study program. Rabbi Weiss’ expertise of more than 18 years makes her a forerunner in the field of conversion and teaching interfaith couples.
Admission: The cost of the course is $118 plus a $10 registration fee.
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Books  •  Film  •  Film  •  General Interest  •  Not Your Bubbe's Sisterhood  •  Talks, Lectures, Conversations  
Title: Seeking Happily Ever After
Film Screening & Book Talk
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM

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There are more single women in their thirties today than at any other time in history. Why now? Are women redefining happily ever after? In the documentary Seeking Happily Ever After, you’ll meet women eager to debunk the stereotypes that they are either desperate to get married or too career driven to care about marriage. These women drop their guard and share the ups and downs of being single today.

Filmmaker Michelle Cove has also written a companion book, Seeking Happily Ever After: Navigating the Ups and Downs of Being Single Without Losing Your Mind (and Finding Lasting Love Along the Way). Cove will speak and answer questions following the film (running time: 80 minutes).

Admission: Tickets are $8, or receive two (2) FREE tickets with the purchase of the book ($17) through Sixth & I.
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Books  •  Comedy  •  General Interest  •  Hobbies and Crafts  •  Talks, Lectures, Conversations  
Title: Amy Sedaris
Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People
Date: Monday, November 08, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM
image America's most delightfully unconventional hostess and the bestselling author of I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence delivers a new book that will forever change the world of crafting. Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People proves that crafting is one of life's more pleasurable leisure activities and anyone with a couple of hours to kill and access to pipe cleaners can join the elite society of crafters. 

The book explains how to make popular crafts, such as crab-claw roach clips and crepe-paper moccasins, and how to avoid common crafting accidents (feather asphyxia, pine cone lodged in throat).

Sedaris is an actress and comedienne best known for portraying Jerri Blank in the Comedy Central series Strangers with Candy, and for her roles on Exit 57, Just Shoot Me, Sex & the City, Monk, and Cracking Up.
Admission: Tickets are $30 and include one copy of the book, Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People. All seating is general admission.
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Books  •  General Interest  •  History  •  Talks, Lectures, Conversations  
Title: Stacy Schiff
CLEOPATRA: A Life
Date: Thursday, November 11, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM
image In CLEOPATRA: A Life, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Stacy Schiff takes on one of the greatest figures in history: Cleopatra VII, the last queen of Egypt. Schiff separates fact from fiction to illuminate the life of one of the most intriguing women of all time.

History remembers Cleopatra as an irresistible seductress, but she was also a canny political strategist, a brilliant manager, and a tough negotiator. As Schiff states, “Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history: that of women and power.” We have not seen a more influential woman since—much less one who happened to be a single mother and, by a wide margin, the wealthiest person in her world.

Schiff is the author of Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupéry, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America.
Admission: Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 the day of the event, or receive 2 FREE tickets with the purchase of the book ($30) through Sixth & I.
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Concerts  •  General Interest  •  Music  
Title: Calder Quartet
Date: Saturday, November 13, 2010
Time: 8:00 PM
image Bartok – Quartet No. 2
Beethoven – Quartet in F minor, Op 95, “Serioso”
Ravel – Quartet in F major

Admission: TICKETS GO ON SALE ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th at 10:00 am. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased on Ticketfly.com, by calling 877.435.9849, or visiting Sixth & I Monday - Friday between Noon – 3:00 pm. On the night of the event, will-call and ticket sales will end at 10:00 pm. No one will be permitted to enter the event after that time. All seating is general admission. Doors open at 7:00 pm.
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Books  •  General Interest  •  Talks, Lectures, Conversations  
Title: Salman Rushdie
Luka and the Fire of Life
Date: Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM
image With the same imagination that has made Salman Rushdie one of the great storytellers of our time, Luka and the Fire of Life revisits the magic-infused, intricate world he first brought to life in the modern classic Haroun and the Sea of Stories.

This new novel centers on Luka, Haroun’s younger brother, who must save his father from certain doom by traveling to the Magic World and stealing the Fire of Life. Thus begins a quest full of unlikely creatures, strange alliances, and seemingly insurmountable challenges as Luka and an assortment of enchanted companions race through peril after peril, pass through the land of the Badly Behaved Gods, and reach the Fire itself, where Luka’s fate, and that of his father, will be decided. Filled with mischievous wordplay and delving into themes as universal as the power of filial love and the meaning of mortality, Luka and the Fire of Life is a book of wonders for all ages.

Admission: Tickets are $12, or receive 1 FREE ticket with the purchase of the book ($25). For the book+ticket option, call Politics & Prose at 202.364.1919. For tickets only, click the button below.
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Concerts  •  General Interest  •  Music  
Title: Ravi Coltrane
Date: Saturday, November 20, 2010
Time: 8:00 PM
image He may bear the name of jazz royalty, but saxophonist Ravi Coltrane, the son of the legendary John Coltrane and pianist Alice Coltrane, “blows an original and distinctly modern strain of jazz, distilling but never seeking to imitate his family’s adventurous improvising spirits.” (NPR)

Admission: TICKETS GO ON SALE ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th at 10:00 am. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased on Ticketfly.com, by calling 877.435.9849, or visiting Sixth & I Monday - Friday between Noon – 3:00 pm. On the night of the event, will-call and ticket sales will end at 10:00 pm. No one will be permitted to enter the event after that time. All seating is general admission. Doors open at 7:00 pm.
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Books  •  Cooking  •  General Interest  •  Jewish Culture  •  Talks, Lectures, Conversations  
Title: Quiches, Kugels, and Couscous: My Search for Jewish Cooking in France
EVENT LOCATION: Alliance Française
Date: Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Time: 6:30 PM

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EVENT LOCATION:  Alliance Française
                                    2142 Wyoming Avenue NW 
                                    Washington, DC  20008


Jewish cooking in France is as diverse as the French landscape. Beyond the copious falafels and the Eastern European pastries served on the Rue des Rosiers in Paris, dishes draw from a combination of influences: Ashkenazim, Sephardim, and the French regions where they evolved, on the continent or in the old colonial Empire. Joan Nathan is the author of ten cookbooks and an inductee into the James Beard Foundation's Who's Who in American Food and Beverage.

Followed by a book signing and reception with dishes made from recipes in the book.

Admission: Tickets are $10.
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Concerts  •  General Interest  •  Music  
Title: Kayhan Kalhor
with Brooklyn Rider
Date: Saturday, March 05, 2011
Time: 8:00 PM
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The stunning collaboration between Iranian kamanche (spike-fiddle) virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor and the adventurous American string quartet Brooklyn Rider has been hailed by critics as “challenging music [that is] a real thrill ride.” (Strings Magazine)


 

Admission: TICKETS GO ON SALE ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th at 10:00 am. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased on Ticketfly.com, by calling 877.435.9849, or visiting Sixth & I Monday - Friday between Noon – 3:00 pm. On the night of the event, will-call and ticket sales will end at 10:00 pm. No one will be permitted to enter the event after that time. All seating is general admission. Doors open at 7:00 pm.
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Concerts  •  General Interest  •  Music  
Title: Simone Dinnerstein, piano
Date: Saturday, April 09, 2011
Time: 8:00 PM
image Dinnerstein’s sold out appearance on the 2008/09 Hayes Piano Series was a season highlight, and you won’t want to miss this much-anticipated recital as she performs Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op.27, No. 1 Schumann’s Fantasiesucke, and Bach’s sublime Chorale Preludes.

Admission: TICKETS GO ON SALE ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th at 10:00 am. Tickets are $40 and can be purchased on Ticketfly.com, by calling 877.435.9849, or visiting Sixth & I Monday - Friday between Noon – 3:00 pm. On the night of the event, will-call and ticket sales will end at 10:00 pm. No one will be permitted to enter the event after that time. All seating is general admission. Doors open at 7:00 pm.
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Concerts  •  General Interest  •  Music  
Title: Vijay Iyer Trio
Date: Saturday, April 30, 2011
Time: 8:00 PM
image “There can be no doubt that pianist-composer Vijay Iyer stands among the most daringly original jazz artists of the under-40 generation,” says The Chicago Tribune. The American-born son of Indian immigrants, the self-taught creative musician, grounded in American jazz and popular forms, draws from a wide range of Western and non-Western traditions.

Admission: TICKETS GO ON SALE ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th at 10:00 am. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased on Ticketfly.com, by calling 877.435.9849, or visiting Sixth & I Monday - Friday between Noon – 3:00 pm. On the night of the event, will-call and ticket sales will end at 10:00 pm. No one will be permitted to enter the event after that time. All seating is general admission. Doors open at 7:00 pm.
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Concerts  •  General Interest  •  Music  
Title: Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano
Date: Thursday, May 05, 2011
Time: 8:00 PM
image Wagner - Album Sonata
Berg – Sonata Op. 1
Scriabin – Sonata No. 9, “Messe noire”
Liszt – Sonata in B minor, S. 178

Aimard made his Hayes Series debut in 2001. He has gone on to acclaimed performances at Lincoln Center and curated his own Perspectives Series at Carnegie Hall.

Admission: TICKETS GO ON SALE ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th at 10:00 am. Tickets are $40 and can be purchased on Ticketfly.com, by calling 877.435.9849, or visiting Sixth & I Monday - Friday between Noon – 3:00 pm. On the night of the event, will-call and ticket sales will end at 10:00 pm. No one will be permitted to enter the event after that time. All seating is general admission. Doors open at 7:00 pm.
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