Dylan Thomas celebration is at center of 2010 Wales Week in New York
EXPERIENCE DYLAN THOMAS IN NEW YORK
Multiple locations
March 2-7, free – $150
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Wales Week USA celebrates Welsh culture and history with special presentations across the country March 2-7. Here in New York, Wales Week focuses on poet Dylan Thomas, who spent a lot of time in the city, including dying at St. Vincent’s in 1953 at the age of thirty-nine. The Morgan Library will be displaying rare manuscripts and other artifacts in addition to serving a special Welsh afternoon tea March 3-7. On March 6, Dr. Rhian Davies and pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips honor composer Alec Templeton at the New York Library for the Performing Arts at 3:00, followed by the Music Masters of Wales concert at Carnegie Hall, guest-conducted by 2010 William R. Hopkins Bronze Medal recipient Dr. Karl Jenkins. On March 7 at 9:30 am, you can learn all about Thomas’s relationship with New York City on the Dylan Thomas Walking Tour of Greenwich Village, put together by scholar Peter Thabit Jones and Aeronwy Thomas, the poet’s daughter ($25, advance RSVP required at catrin.brace@wales-uk). Wales Week concludes that afternoon at 4:00 with David Enlow playing “The Organ Works of Cesar Franck” at Rutgers Presbyterian Church on West 73rd St.