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MUSIC
THE WITCHING HOUR The Baryshnikov Arts Center hosts a Movado Hour concert with a performance by tenor Paul Groves. Accompanying Mr. Groves are a violist, Beatrice Muthelet; a cellist, Sophie Shao; a violinist, Jennifer Frautschi, and a pianist, Pedja Muzijevic. Mr. Muzijevic is also the curator of the free chamber music series. The program includes Benjamin Britten’s “Winter Words” and Mozart’s Piano Quartet in E flat major. Tonight, 7 p.m., Baryshnikov Arts Center, Howard Gilman Performance Space, 450 W. 37th St., between Ninth and Tenth avenues, 917-934-4966, free.
INSPIRED BY VENICE The Little Orchestra Society performs Vivaldi’s 1733 opera “Concierto Barroco.” The concert is part of the ensemble’s 18th annual Vivaldi’s Venice concert series. The orchestra plays an interpretation of the fantasy piece that borrows from Cuban author Alejo Carpentier’s 1974 novella of the same name. Carpentier’s work imagines Handel and Scarlatti in a jam session at the Pietà, and a picnic at the Venetian island resting place of Igor Stravinsky. Dino Anagnost conducts; actor David Gonzalez narrates. Thursday, 7:30 p.m., Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall, 881 Seventh Ave. at 55th Street, 212-247-7800,$25-$40.
TALKS
THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES New York University hosts “From Ethiopia to Chechnya: Reflections on Humanitarian Action,” a discussion that examines recent humanitarian crises and the global response to them. Panelists are the former president of Doctors Without Borders, Dr. Rony Brauman, and the author of “A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis” (Simon & Schuster), David Rieff. Thursday, 7 p.m., New York University, Kimmel Center for University Life, Eisner and Lubin Auditorium, 60 Washington Square South at La Guardia Place, 800-601-1466, free.
AN OLD LIVES’ TALE Symphony Space hosts a conversation with three biographers who discuss the process of researching and writing about public figures. Biographers of the writer Saul Bellow (James Atlas), President Theodore Roosevelt (Edmund Morris), and the aviator and author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Stacy Schiff) detail their investigation techniques. Tomorow, 7:30 p.m., Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, 212-864-5400, $21-$25.
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