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¡Fiesta! Celebrating Hispanic and Latin American Culture, will be presented on September 25, 2010 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art by the Museum's Multicultural Audience Development Initiative and its Education Department. ¡Fiesta! is the Metropolitan's first Museum-wide, all-day event in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, and it features programs for all ages from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. ¡Fiesta! offers visitors art-making activities, talks, Museum tours, music and dance performances, films, and many more engaging programs related to Latin American art from the Metropolitan Museum's collection. Nearly all the ¡Fiesta! programs are free with Museum admission.
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The strings, winds, and percussion group Ensemble Galilei, narrator Neal Conan of NPR, and actress Lily Knight collaborate to present "First Person: Seeing America," a program combining words and music with iconic images from the Photographic Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as part of the Metropolitan Museum Concerts series on Saturday, October 16, at 7:00 p.m.
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Hamilton ("Tony") E. James, the president and chief operating officer of The Blackstone Group, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was announced today by James R. Houghton, the Museum's Chairman. The election took place at the September 14 meeting of the Board.
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Pacifica Quartet Launches Its Shostakovich Cycle;
Till Fellner Concludes Beethoven Sonata Series;
Ensemble Galilei Offers Program of Words, Music & Images from Met Museum's
Photographic Collection; David Kadouch Kicks Off Season's Piano Forte Series, and More
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Last Chance to See Tutankhamun's Funeral; Additional Viewing Opportunity for Popular Summer Exhibitions
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Seventh Highest Exhibition Attendance on Record at the Met
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Judy Collins at The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing,
Dee Dee Bridgewater's Tribute to Billie Holliday, and
"Strings of the Black Sea," Music from Bulgaria, Ukraine, Crimea, and Turkey
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