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INITIATIVES
Music and Concerts

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

WASHINGTON SQUARE MUSIC FESTIVAL’S 52^ND SEASON

Four free concerts Tuesdays at 8 pm in July

Music Director Lutz Rath has announced the 52^nd 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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The Washington Square Music Festival is made possible through The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and State Senator Thomas K. Duane, through NYS Parks and Recreation. Generous grants from The Earle T. & Katherine Moore Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Washington Square Association, The Margaret Neubart Foundation Trust, New York University Community Affairs, Con Edison, Salamon-Abrams Family Fund, and Emigrant Savings Bank are deeply appreciated. US Recording Companies fund in part the instrumental music for the series, as arranged by Local 802, American Federation of Musicians.

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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.

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

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