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Holiday Concert at BPL: Sheepshead Bay Branch

Ray Johnson

Dec 9, 2009

This Saturday, December 12, 2009, there will be a holiday concert at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Sheepshead Bay Branch. There will be performances of romantic operatic pieces and funny poetry in guess which language.

Here is the information as we received it from the Media-Newswire press release.

Holiday Concert in Russian
Singer Maksim Grachev will perform opera arias and Russian romances. Poets Liana Alaverdova, Irina Aks and Yelena Litinskaya will recite humorous poems. Brooklyn Public Library’s Sheepshead Bay branch, 2636 East 14th Street, Brooklyn. Saturday, Dec 12, 2:00 PM. FREE

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