the Charles Mingus Orchestra closes the Washington Square Music Festival’s 52nd season by performing works by the late Charles Mingus. The concert is free and celebrates a great American composer, who left his legacy in the worlds of both jazz and the civil rights struggle.

Seating is on a first-come, first served basis in front of the Holley Statue, in the northwest quadrant of the Square. The Festival is under the auspices of the Washington Square Association, Inc. Rainspace is St. Joseph’s Church, 371 Sixth Avenue.
Festival info: 212-252-3621 www.washingtonsquaremusicfestival.org

Charles Mingus Orchestra – July 27, 8 pm Washington Square

“Taurus in the Arena of Life”
“Eclipse”
“Noon Night”
(features French Horn)
“Better get hit in your soul”
“Slop”
“Consider me, oh lord”
“Meditations for Moses”
(arrangement by bassist Boris Kozlov)
“Noddin’ your Head blues”
(trio for flute, bass clarinet & bassoon)

Craig Handy, alto saxophone//flute
Scott Robinson, tenor saxophone/flute
Ku-umba Frank Lacy, trombone
Kenny Rampton, trumpet
Donald Edwards, drums
Boris Kozlov, bass
Michael Rabinowitz, bassoon
Jeff Scott, French horn
David Gilmore, guitar
Doug Yates, bass clarinet

Charles Mingus (1922-79) double-bass player, composer and pianist: Born on a military base in Nogales, Arizona in 1922 and raised in Watts, California, his earliest musical influences came from the church– choir and group singing– and from hearing Duke Ellington over the radio when he was eight years old. He studied double bass and composition (five years with H. Rheinshagen, principal bassist of the New York Philharmonic, and compositional techniques with the legendary Lloyd Reese) while absorbing vernacular music from the great jazz masters, first-hand. In the 1940s he played with Louis Armstrong, Kid Ory, Lionel Hampton and Billy Taylor. In the 1950s after working with Charlie Parker, Bud Powell and others, he formed his own publishing and recording companies to protect and document his growing repertoire of original music. He also founded the Jazz Workshop, a group which enabled young composers to have their new works performed in concert and on recordings. Although he wrote his first concert piece, “Half-Mast Inhibition,” when he was 17 years old, it was not recorded until 20 years later by a 22-piece orchestra with Gunther Schuller conducting. It was the presentation of “Revelations” which combined jazz and classical idioms, at the 1955 Brandeis Festival of the Creative Arts, that established him as one of the foremost jazz composers of his day. The New Yorker wrote: “For sheer melodic and rhythmic and structural originality, his compositions may equal anything written in western music in the twentieth century.” www.mingusmingusmingus.com
The Charles Mingus Orchestra was assembled in 1999 by Sue Mingus, and plays with the intensity of the Mingus Big Band, but with a focus on composition and less emphasis on soloing. Its distinctive sound emerges from an expanded repertory and more exotic instrumentation, including bassoon, bass clarinet, French horn, and guitar.

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.

JUNE 29th at 6:00 p.m. at the KING JUAN CARLOS CENTER, NYU

located at 53 Washington Square South

All are welcome to attend.

Our guest speaker at this meeting will be:

JEAN PARKER PHIFER, an architect that specializes in planning, renovation

and sustainable design projects for cultural institutions and has desgined

or restored numerous buildings, public spaces and landscapes – primarily

in New York.  She was President of the Art Commission from 1998 – 2003.

She is a fellow of the AIA and teached environmental design at NYU.

Her recently published book ”Public Art, N.Y.” will be discussed.

The Washington Square Association continues to take pride in sponsoring

the Washington Square Music Festival, the summer children’s programs,

as well as the Winter Holiday Celebration which provides the annual

christmas tree at the Arch.

We seek continued support through membership and donations and ask you

to check out this Website for information on how you too can help support these

important causes right here at Washington Square Park.

Saturday, June 5th – Holley Plaza - 11 am – 2:30 pm - High School Big Band Concert

Saturday, June 5th – Holley Plaza – 4 pm – 8 pm Indian Music Performance

Sunday, June 6th – Holley Plaza and Arch – all day – World Science Festival

Tuesday, June 8th – Holley Plaza – 1 pm – 7 pm – T-shirt giveaway (not amplified)

Friday, June 11th – Arch Plaza – 8 am – 8 pm – Art Exhibit - (not amplified)

Saturday, June 12th – Arch Plaza -12 pm – 7 pm – Hari Krishna (amplification from 12-4 only)

Friday, June 18th – Large Lawn- 7 pm – 10 pm – French Film Screening

Saturday, June 19th -Holley Plaza – 2 pm – 5 pm – Concert

Sunday, June 20th – Holley Plaza – 2 pm – 4 pm – Wind Ensemble concert

Monday, June 21st – Holley Plaza – 2 pm  – 8 pm – Make Music New York

Wednesday, June 23rd – Holley Plaza – 6 pm – 8 pm – Literature and Poetry reading

Friday, June 25th - Large Lawn – 7 pm – 10 pm – French Film Screening

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

Mon., 5/10 @ 6:30 PM –Church of Our Lady of Pompeii, 25 Carmine St. Father Demo Hall

The Fountain Works It's Magic

We are happy to announce that the Parks Department has turned on the fountain at Washington Square Park today !  Go over and enjoy the wonderful  weather and our beautiful fountain.

According to Inside the Apple, the arch was actually built twice, “the first one was made of wood, plaster, and papier-mâché and erected on Fifth Avenue just north of Washington Square in 1889 as a part of the festivities in honor of the centennial of George Washington’s inaugural.” After the festivities were over, a fundraising committee was formed and a permanent, marble replacement was put in place.

Around the time the second arch was complete marked the beginning of the City Beautiful movement and the formation of the Municipal Art Society, whose motto was (according to this 1893 NY Times article), “To make us love our country, we should make our country lovely.” Check out some more photos of the arch’s past at NYC Architecture. Today the history of the park still pops up from time to time, most recently a tombstone from 1799 was unearthed from when the area was a potter’s field.

By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on May 4, 2010 1 :53 PM

http://gothamist.com/2010/05/04/flashback_washington_square_park_ar.php

The 2010 Census will help communities receive more than $400 billion in federal funds each year for things like:

• Hospitals
• Job training centers
• Schools
• Senior centers
• Bridges, tunnels and other-public works projects
• Emergency services

The data collected by the census also help determine the number of seats your state has in the U.S. House of Representatives.

We can’t move forward until you mail it back.

In March of 2010, census forms will be delivered to every residence in the United States and Puerto Rico. When you receive yours, just answer the 10 short questions and then mail the form back in the postage-paid envelope provided. If you don’t mail the form back, you may receive a visit from a census taker, who will ask you the questions from the form.

The majority of the country will receive English–only materials. Households in areas with high concentrations of Spanish-speaking residents may receive a bilingual (English/Spanish) form.

Any personal data you provide is protected under federal law.

EVERYONE…….   NEEDS TO PARTICIPATE ………..  PLEASE   !!!!

Lower Manhattan and West side residents deserve to have access to emergency services and an acute care facility.  During the 9/11 tragedy, St. Vincent’s hospital was at the frontlines in the rescue as well as caring for the community in the aftermath. If St. Vincent’s closes, the community will be left without its only trauma center putting more lives at risk. New Yorkers
cannot afford to keep losing their hospitals.

Join Us for an Urgent Community Town Hall Meeting ….

Thursday, January 28, 2010
5pm – 7pm
Our Lady of Pompeii Church
25 Carmine Street (& Bleecker Street)
New York, New York