Jun 08 2010
WASHINGTON SQUARE MUSIC FESTIVAL RETURNS TO THE PARK
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.
WASHINGTON SQUARE MUSIC FESTIVAL’S 52ND SEASON
Tuesdays in July, 2010 at 8 pm
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
Maurice Ravel Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and strings
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 30ties to WWII and European Spa and Salon Music ( Kurorchestermusik) Featuring baritone Kenneth Overton, founder of Opera Noire of New York, Mezzo-soprano Laila Salins 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.
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 Foundation, 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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