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This just in about a poet and pianist I admire a whole lot, benefiting a press I admire a lot too:
Oni Buchanan is giving a recital in New York!
Wednesday March 29, 8 pm
Christ & St. Stephen's Church, 120 W. 69th St.
It's a benefit recital for Alice James Books, the small independent poetry press with impeccable taste in publishing the finest contemporary poetry Earth's crust has to offer.
On the program:
Rzewski, Four Pieces, no. 4
Bach, Prelude and Fugue in C# major, WTC Bk 1
Nancarrow, Blues
Beethoven, Sonata no. 7 in D major, Op. 10 no. 3
Chopin, Sonata no. 3 in B minor, Op. 58
We'll take donations at the door; we're suggesting $15, for mere mortals, $30 for Heroes, and $50+ for superheroes.
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