Merchant's House Hosts Concert & Afternoon Tea 5/8
Concert & Afternoon Tea: A 19th-Century Serenade to Mother
Dates: Sunday, May 8
Time: Tea at 4:30 p.m., Concert at 5:30 p.m.
Location: Merchant's House Museum, 29 East Fourth Street (btwn Lafayette & Bowery)
Description: Enjoy an elegant afternoon tea, served in the Museum's "Secret" Garden, followed by "Sing It With Flowers," a song recital of 19th-Century salon music performed live in honor of Mother's Day in the Museum's Greek Revival double parlors by members of the Bond Street Euterpean Singing Society. Tea & Concert: $50, $40 MHM Members. Concert only: $25, MHM Members $15. Space is limited, reservations required; call 212-777-1089 or visit merchantshouse.org/events.
About the Merchant's House Museum
The Merchant's House Museum is New York City's only family home preserved intact - inside and out - from the mid-19th century. Home to a prosperous merchant-class family for almost 100 years, it is complete with the family's original furnishings and personal possessions, offering a rare and intimate glimpse of domestic life from 1835-1865.
The New York Times
On the web: www.merchantshouse.org
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