Performance you might want to pay for (not too $$)

White Oak Dance Project (Barishnikov)
LaMama
St. Ann's Warehouse
PS 122
Mannes/New School
Merkin
Joyce
Bargemusic (Music on a barge in Brooklyn)

Free and Cheap at Miller Theatre, Columbia Univ.

An alternative to the crowded Julliard concerts: a good variety, as in:

Miller Theatre, e.g, Marty Ehrlich Rites Quartet Oct 24. $7-20.
Bach: Keyboard Partitas free lunchtime concert, Oct 28

Free Lunch Concerts

CUNY Music in Midtown
Miller Theatre, Columbia
ARTEK, Early Music @ St Barts Wed. @ 1pm.
Juilliard concerts

Ongoing Lecture series: CUNY

CUNY's got lots of free things. Get on their list
CUNY concerts and conversations - or the Women's Center Just had Gloria Steinem, or the Gotham History Center, which is having the charming broadway music historian Jerry Silverman on Oct 20, or for theatre people, Martin Segal Center

Here's a fun example of stuff from CUNY's Science and Art center
The Theory of Everything

"Encompass New Opera Theatre's The Theory of Everything has music by John David Earnest and a libretto by Nancy Rhodes. The opera, a work-in-progress, is a scientific and metaphysical search into other dimensions and alternate universes.

Saturday, November 14, 2:00 pm Elebash Recital Hall