New York City's NYPL for the Performing Arts--It's Ours and It's Free

Doubtless, you made the acquaintance of your nearby New York Public Library branch but did you know about these free and accessible special libraries?

Science, Industry and Business Library at Madison and 34th,
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at 515 Malcolm X Blvd,
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street (Main Branch) where Patience and Fortitude, nicknamed by Mayor LaGuardia, guard the entrance,

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and the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts.

 

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There, within the Billy Rose Theatre Division, you can review the working script for Orson Welles's African-American Macbeth,

 

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see what makeup Nijinsky wore in Scheherazade in the Jerome Robbins Dance division, view rare manuscripts in the Music Division,

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or look at the Theatre and Film on Tape Archive (These divisions require an appointment).

In the circulating collections, you can listen for hours to any recording, view videos and DVDs, and take out musical scores, a boon to impoverished musicians everywhere.

 

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But some of the best things at this library are the free lectures and music programs almost daily in the Bruno Walter Auditorium. Go to www.nypl.org/locations/tid/55/calendar to see what's current

A quick sampling for the next couple of weeks includes:

Barber and Moore, with pianist Benjamin Bradham,

Songbook at LPA's new Broadway music,

Dixieland Jazz on Tuesdays with the Gotham Jazzmen,

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An Afternoon of Opera and Song,

Madcap May: Mistress of Myth, Men and Hope, a lecture by the Smithosonian's Richard Kurin, and

Certainly Known Yet Hardly Shown

These programs take place afternoons and early evenings and are listed as being for Adults 50+, Book Lovers, College & Graduate Students, and Adults. That includes us.

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