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EASTER

EGG EXPEDITION The Brooklyn Bridge Park/Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park hosts its third annual “Spring Fling Egg Hunt.” The scavenger event is followed by musical performances, storytelling, and a visit by animals from the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Featured musical guests include the Deedle Deedle Dees and Care Bears on Fire. Rain or shine. Saturday, 11 a.m.–2 p.m., Brooklyn Bridge Park, 23 New Dock St. at Main Street entrance, under the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights, 718-802-0603, free.

SUNDAY MORNING Trinity Church celebrates Easter Sunday with two musical performances. The Trinity Choirsters perform Handel’s “Let the Bright Seraphim” and Rutter’s “Easter Carol.” Later in the morning, the Trinity Choir performs Scott’s “Joy to the Heart,” Willan’s “Rise Up, My Love, My Fair One,” MacFarlane’s “Christ Our Passover,” and Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” from “Messiah.” Sunday, 9 and 11 a.m., Trinity Church, 74 Trinity Place at Broadway, 212-602-0800, free.

CHURCH MUSIC Jazz musician and composer Mary Lou Williams converted to Roman Catholicism in 1957, and moved from writing contemporary jazz to liturgical works, including three complete Masses. The Church of St. Joseph of the Holy Family presents an Easter Sunday concert featuring parts of Williams’s three Masses. A senior at Juilliard and the church’s pianist, Aaron Diehl, performs with bassist David Wong and drummer Carmen Intorre. The Choir of the Church of St. Joseph also performs, featuring singers J’Nai Bridges and Timothy Springs. Sunday, 10 a.m., the Church of St. Joseph of the Holy Family, 405 W. 125th St. at Morningside Avenue, 212-662-9125, free.

FILM

PARIS ACCORDING TO MOUSSA A screening of Cheik Doukouré’s “Paris Selon Moussa” (2003) is featured as part of the 14th New York African Film Festival presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Mr. Doukouré also plays the title character, Moussa, who is appointed by his fellow villagers to go into Paris to buy a new water pump. Along the way he encounters remarkable characters and typical immigrant difficulties, from crime to police raids, but also the solidarity of the African community. The award-winning film, in French with English subtitles, stirred controversy when it was first shown in France. Friday, 10 p.m., through, Thursday, April 12, dates and times vary, Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater, 165 W. 65th St., between Broadway and Amsterdam avenues, 212-496-3809, $11 general, $7 members and students, $7 seniors, weekday matinee screenings only. For complete information, go to filmlinc.com.

FAREWELL, MANHATTAN “The Real Edie Sedgwick,” a 16-film retrospective of the films directed by Andy Warhol and featuring Sedgwick concludes this weekend at the Museum of the Moving Image. “Beauty #2” (1965), in which Sedgwick gives what is widely perceived as her most complex and playful performance, is screened on Saturday at 6:30. In the film, she is shown flirting in bed with both the late pianist Gino Piserchio and the camera, while responding to jealous insults from off-screen. Saturday and Sunday, times vary, Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, 718-784-0077, $10 general, $7.50 students and seniors, $5 children under age 18, free for members. For complete information, go to movingimage. us.

MUSIC

REMEMBERING ROME Members of the New York Philharmonic perform Beethoven’s String Trio Op. 9, No. 3, and Paul Moravec’s “Atmosfera a Villa Aurelia,” a piece the composer has said is a reminiscence of Rome. Featured musicians include violinists Sheryl Staples and Lu Kuan-Cheng, violist Rebecca Young, and cellist Hai-Ye Ni. Mr. Moravec, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer gives a lecture that precedes the concert, at 6. Saturday, 8 p.m., Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd. at Linden Place, Flushing, Queens, 718-463-7700, $25 general, $15 for members.

PASSOVER

WEEEKEND SEDER The Friday-Night Shabbat Salon presents “Crossroads Ensemble: Jewish-Latin Musical Fusion,” as part of Passover celebrations. Venezuelan guitarist Aquiles Báez and Israeli jazz flutist Mattan Klein join together for a collaborative evening of world music. Wine and dessert are offered after the performance. Friday, 8 p.m., 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave. at 92nd Street, 212-415-5500, $25.

PHOTOGRAPHY

AMERICA’S MYSTERIES “An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar” is an exhibit of works by Taryn Simon. Ms. Simon travels America and photographs controversial and intriguing situations such as surgeries, marijuana farms, and nuclear waste sites. In “Nuclear Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility, Cherenkov Radiation” (2007), above, she shows a portion of 1,936 stainless steel nuclear waste capsules emitting electromagnectic radiation as they are submerged in a pool of water. Through Saturday, June 24, closed Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., Friday, 1–9 p.m. (pay-what-you-wish admission, 6–9 p.m.), Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., the Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Ave. at 75th Street, 800-944-8639, $15 general, $10 students and seniors, free for members, public high school students, and children.

READINGS

CAN’T STAND THE RAIN Writer and filmmaker David Peterson is featured as part of the One Story Cocktail Hour and Reading Series. Mr. Peterson reads from “I Run and Feel Rain,” which appeared in issue no. 84 of the One Story literary journal (his screen adaptation of the story was recently optioned by Miramax Films and David Lynch). The editor of the journal, Hannah Tinti, is host of the event. Cocktails are served throughout the evening. Friday, 7 p.m., Pianos, 158 Ludlow St., between Rivington and Stanton streets, 212-505-3733, free.

TOURS

PARKING LOTS AND CLUBS On Location Tours hosts a bus tour of the sites familiar to viewers of the HBO series, “The Sopranos,” which moves into the second part of its sixth season on Sunday. The tour visits more than 40 locations that have been featured in the lives of the New Jersey mob family. The Bada Bing go-go bar (based on Satin Dolls in Lodi, N.J.), Satriale’s pork shop, and Pizzaland are among featured sites in the city and New Jersey. Guests should look for the tour guide with the blue flag. Saturday and Sunday, 2 p.m., meet at the Garment District Button, between Seventh Avenue and 39th Street, 212-209-3370, $40 advance purchase required. For complete information, go to screentours.com.

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This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.


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