WASHINGTON SQUARE MUSIC FESTIVAL’S 52ND SEASON
Four free concerts Tuesdays at 8 pm in July
Music Director Lutz Rath has announced the 52nd season of the Washington Square Music Festival that will take place in front of the Holley statue in the northwest quadrant of Washington Square Park (enter from MacDougal Street and Waverly Place). There were no outdoor concerts last summer because of park construction, and since the new stage is not yet completed, the Festival will avail itself of the historic area where the first Music Festival concert premiered in 1953. The Festival is under the auspices of the Washington Square Association, Inc.
Rainspace, St. Joseph’s Church, 371 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY
info: 212-252-3621, www.washingtonsquaremusicfestival.org
The Festival Chamber Ensemble
July 6
Luigi Boccherini Opera Piccola-- four flute quintets. Sue Ann Kahn, flute
Maurice Ravel Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and strings. Anna Reinersman, harp
K.A. Hartmann* Kleines Konzert for string quartet and percussion
July 13
K.A Hartmann Tanzsuite
Joseph Haydn Symphonie Concertante in B flat
Theodore Dubois Dixtuor
July 20
A program of American musical theater works from the Thirties & Forties and European Spa and Salon Music ( Kurorchestermusik), featuring baritone Kenneth Overton, founder of Opera Noire of New York, Mezzo-soprano Laila Salins, bass trombonist David Taylor, and accordionist & composer William Schimmel with the Festival Chamber Ensemble
July 27 Charles Mingus Orchestra
Jazz compositions by the late, great Charles Mingus
* Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905-63) was an extraordinary German composer who studied with Anton Webern. Hartmann was a fierce fighter against the Nazis. His music is not as well known in the US as it is in Germany.
Washington Square Music Festival site.
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