MUSIC

New York Arabic Orchestra: al Qalam: Poetry in the Park

SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 2023
4:00 PM

River to River Festival
The Labyrinth
Battery Park, FiDi, Manhattan

Free
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Commemorating the Little Syria neighborhood that used to be located near here, finally decimated to make way for the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel. As this List frequently observes, Arabic classical music is great stuff, vital and haunting, that ought to have a lot more general popularity around here than it does. The non-Arab world has really been sleeping on this.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: The place I was gonna send you to abruptly closed, sigh. So I guess we have to schlep to Schilling for Austrian (which isn’t inappropriate, since it’s actually located where Little Syria used to be).