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Washington Square Music Festival

Peggy Friedman, Executive Director
Jean Lyman Goetz, Festival Manager
Laima Hood, chair, Board of Directors
Suzette Jacobs, Associate Music Director
Lutz Rath, Music Director
For more information visit:
www.washingtonsquaremusicfestival.org

The sole activity of The Washington Square Music Festival is to present free concerts. New York has other free outdoor classical concert series, but only the Washington Square Music Festival is sponsored by a local civic organization—the Washington Square Association, Inc.

Jeffrey Levine, double bassist, Lutz Rath, cellist and Music Director, with the Festival Orchestra,
July 20, 2004. Photo: Ken Howard

The Festival was founded in 1953 by violinist and neighbor Alexander Schneider, member of the famed Budapest String Quartet, and the Washington Square Association. Over the years the concerts have become a venerable summer tradition, shaped by Peggy Friedman, executive director, the late music director Henry Schuman, and the current music director, Lutz Rath, as well as countless patrons, volunteers and neighborhood agencies that make the Festival such a popular Tuesday evening event.

 

The Washington Square Music Festival is made possible with additional funding from:

The Washington Square Park Council

With public funds from:
 the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
through the good offices of
Senator Thomas K. Duane and Assemblymember Deborah J. Glick

The New York State Council on the Arts

City Councilmember Alan J. Gerson and
The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

US Recording Companies fund in part the instrumental
music for the series, as arranged by Local 802, American Federation of Musicians

The Estate of Maria Muriel Bryce

The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation,

The Washington Square Association,

New York University Community Fund,

Carmine Street Block Association,

Margaret Neubart Foundation Trust,

Greenwich Village Block Associations,

Elaine Biseo Wiig, Emigrant Savings Bank

Independence Community Foundation

The Washington Square Hotel


Membership to the Washington Square Association supports the
Washington Square Music Festival concerts throughout the year.

 

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