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2012 Concert Schedule
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 | 8 pm
MUSIC AND POETRY IN GREENWICH VILLAGE
St. Joseph’s Church
West Village Chorale, Michael Conley, conductor
the Washington Square Music Festival Chamber Orchestra
soloists Lucia Hyunju Song, soprano, Lutz Rath, cello, David Oei, piano
- Sir John Tavener: Svyati for chorus and solo cello
- John Corigliano Fern Hill -- poems by Dylan Thomas
- Michael Conley This bequest of Wings; an Emily Dickinson Cycle
- L.v. Beethoven: Fantasy in C minor for piano, chorus, and orchestra, Op. 80
Tuesday, July 17, 2012 | 8 pm
VIENNESE CHAMBER MUSIC
St. Joseph’s Church
Washington Square Festival Chamber Ensemble
David Oei, piano, Lutz Rath, speaker & cello
- Gustav Mahler: Piano Quartet in A minor
- Arnold Schoenberg: Ode to Napoleon for piano quintet and speaker
- written in 1942, in reaction to Hitler, text from a poem by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Franz Schubert: Quintet in C major, D. 956 for two cellos
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 | 8 pm
MUSIC FOR STRINGS & WINDS
Washington Square, main stage south of Fifth Avenue
Washington Square Festival Chamber Ensemble
- Dmitri Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony in F for Strings and Winds Op. 73a
- Antonin Dvo?ák: Serenade in d minor, Op. 44
- W.A. Mozart: Divertimento in D for Winds and Strings, K.131
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 | 8 pm
DEEP SAHARA BAND
Washington Square, main stage south of Fifth Avenue
Abdoulaye Alhassane Touré leader and vocal soloist
- Performing music of West Africa, the roots of American jazz, on guitar, Kora,(African harp), ngoni (ancestor of American banjo), talking drum, tama, drum set, conga, djembé (a rope-tuned skin-covered drum played with bare hands.)
