MMNY grew to encompass over 1,000 free concerts. Harlem led the charge, jumping from 8 concerts in 2009 to 72 in 2010, and new Business Improvement District partners in Brooklyn came aboard. MMNY also partnered with Sing For Hope to place 60 pianos on streets and parks for two weeks beginning on June 21st, left outside for anyone to play. View the full program here.

Program Highlights Included:
an open-air performance of Xenakis’s Persephassa, with the audience listening from rowboats in the Central Park Lake, surrounded by percussionists. The concert, sponsored by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, was named one of the year’s ten best by New York Magazine and Time Out New York • New Orleans-style Second Line jazz parades across three Manhattan neighborhoods, led by the Jazz Gallery, Hungry March Band, and Jazzmobile • an interactive music series in the Meatpacking district • hard-rocking corporate executives competing in Bryant Park (“Play Hard: the MMNY Corporate Challenge”)

Press:
“Rocked by Waves of Drumrolls,” by Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, June 22, 2010