From E.B. White’s Here is New York, 1949 free classical music, a service in harmony with our community nother hot night I stop off at the band concert “Queen Mary” announcing her intentions. She is in the Mall in Central Park. The people not on key; she is a half tone off. The trumpeter seated on the benches fanned out in front in the bandstand never flinches. The horns quarrel of the band shell are attentive, appreciative. savagely, but no one minds having the intimation AIn the trees the night wind sings, bringing leaves of travel injected into the pledge of love. “I leave,” to life, endowing them with speech; the electric sobs Mary. “And I will pledge with mine,” sighs lights illuminate the green branches from the the trumpeter. Along the asphalt paths strollers under side, translating them into a new language. pass to and fro; they behave considerately, On a bench directly in front of me, a boy sits with respecting the musical atmosphere. Popsicles are his arm around his girl; they are proud of each moving well. In the warm grass beyond the fence, other and are swathed in music. The cornetist forms wriggle in the shadows, and the skirts of steps forward for a solo, begins, “Drink to me girls approaching on the Mall are ballooned by only with thine eyes. . .” In the wide, warm night the breeze, and their bare shoulders catch the the horn is startlingly pure and magical. Then from lamplight. “Drink to me only with thine eyes.” the North River another horn solo begins–the It is a magical occasion, and it’s all free.

ince 1905, the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts has continuously presented free, outdoor classical music concerts to New Yorkers of all walks of life. Named after founder and philanthropist Elkan Naumburg, who donated the historic Naumburg Bandshell to New York City in 1923, and inspired by his own love of music, the series seeks to stimulate and encourage new and expanded audiences for classical music in the informal and beautiful setting of Central Park. S gouache drawing of 1930’s Anonymous, Naumburg Orchestral Concert In late nineteenth century New York, Mr. Naumburg felt a need to encourage and stimulate the public’s interest in symphonic and semi-classical music. In 1873, Naumburg founded the Oratorio Society of New York in the family parlor, where Leopold Damrosch, Theodore Thomas and Marcella Sembrich, among others, played weekly in the 1870’s, 80’s & 90’s. Mr. Naumburg’s wife, Bertha, gave that group its name. Elkan’s son, Walter, further reinforced the family tradition of supporting classical music, when he established the Walter W. Naumburg Prize in 1926, as did his grand-niece, Eleanor Naumburg Sanger, who cofounded WQXR, New York’s classical music radio station.

In 1912, the Concert Ground’s earlier Central Park Bandstand was deemed inadequate. Elkan’s replacement greatly improved the conditions for musical performance over the earlier facility. A nephew, William G. Tachau, designed the building in 1916. 105TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON OF FREE CONCERTS FOR THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK After Elkan Naumburg’s death in 1924, his sons, Walter W. Naumburg and George W. Naumburg PRESENTS continued the park concerts. When Walter W. Naumburg died in 1959, his will provided for the perpetuation of these concerts. TIME FOR THREE Today, the concerts feature promising new talent and promote the professional development of young composers and conductors. It is the oldest such concert series in the United States. The Naumburg Orchestral Concerts is a non-profit organization managed by a volunteer board of trustees; contributions towards its programs are fully tax-deductible. ZACHARY DE PUE

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Funding derives partially from the Walter W. N I C O L A S K E N D A L L VIOLIN Christopher W. London, President Robert M. Lang Jr. Naumburg Memorial Fund, from our own Judith E. Naumburg, Treasurer Elizabeth Carrott Minnigh endowment, and grants from several foundations. R A N A A N M E Y E R Anne Bergeron, Secretary Mrs. Robert P. Morgenthau But we could not present quality programs William L. Bernhard Mrs. George W. Naumburg Jr. without the generous contributions from the Elizabeth M. Bryden Cynthia Russell Donors and our board . Robin Cohn Carol Wincenc MIDGE WOOLSEY GUEST ANNOUNCER Thomas J. Healy, Jr. Honorary - Dr. George W. Naumburg, Jr.

BRIAN CHOJNOWSKI - GRAPHIC DESIGNER HEIDI RIEGLER – PUBLIC RELATIONS 7:30 PM TUESDAY JULY 20, 2010 The Historic Naumburg Bandshell on the Concert Ground of Central Park Please visit WWW.NAUMBURGCONCERTS.ORG for more information on our series. The Mary Elizabeth & Gordon B. MANNWEILER FOUNDATION, INC. Our last concert this season is Tuesday August 3, 2010 with The Knights In celebration of 105 years of From the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts free classical music, a service in harmony with our community Free Concerts for the people of New York City dear friends: THE OLDEST CONTINUOUS FREE OUTDOOR CONCERT SERIES IN THE UNITED STATES We hope you enjoy tonight’s musical performance presented by the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts and will enjoy our last concert this season on August 3rd. T I M E F O R T H R E E The Naumburg Orchestral Concerts has a 105-year tradition of providing free outdoor classical music concerts TONIGHT’S PROGRAM DRAWS FROM A SELECTION OF THE PIECES FOUND BELOW, AND THE to New Yorkers. This was the vision of my great-grandfather, who founded the series in 1905, and of my great- uncle, who endowed it in 1959. ORDER SHALL BE ANNOUNCED FROM THE STAGE. THERE WILL BE ONE INTERMISSION Our long term goal is to expand our program to have more full orchestral concerts each season. To do so we Time for Three Originals need to increase our endowment. Your increased donation will help us to increase that endowment. Wyoming 307, Ranaan Meyer We invite you to become a patron of the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts, a non-profit 501{c}3 located in Philly Phunk, Meyer Manhattan and managed by a board of trustees. All contributions are fully tax-deductible and will be used Forget About it, Meyer towards the direct costs of presenting the concerts—musicians’ honoraria, park fees, chair rentals, printing and promotion or to increase our endowment. Of Time and Three Rivers, Meyer Thunder Stomp, Meyer Your gift will help to ensure that we can continue what has become a delightful musical tradition in the Ecuador, Meyer beautiful setting of Central Park. Please contribute what you can – all gifts, great or small, will be enormously Foxdown, Meyer appreciated and help us raise money from other funders. Quail Hollow, Nicolas Kendall Your help now will insure that 2010 is a great year and that 2011 is an even better year. Thank you for your Don’t Forget, Meyer interest and support. Bradford Commission, Kendall/ Zachary De Pue/Meyer Gigue, Meyer Sincerely Yours, Mohawk, Meyer The Hymn, Kendall/De Pue/Meyer Christopher W. London Don Don, Meyer President Sunday’s, Meyer Little Pete’s, Meyer NAUMBURG ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS c/o C.W. London 300 Central Park West, 18 H New York, N.Y. 10024-1513

Time for Three Arrangements I want to contribute to the NAUMBURG ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS Blackbird, Lennon/McCartney to help sponsor free concerts in Central Park. Enclosed is Bach Double, J. S. Bach my tax-deductible contribution. Or go online to our website Ashokan Farewell, Jay Ungar YES! naumburgconcerts.org to either MAKE A DONATION or Amazing Grace,Traditional JOIN MAILING LIST to join or update our email lists. Csardas, Vittorio Monti Shenandoah, Traditional Friend $35 – $99 Donor $500 – $999 Hungarian Dance No. 5, Johannes Brahms Contributor $100 – $249 Benefactor $1,000 & above Turkey In The Straw, Traditional Orange Blossom Special, Charlie Rouse Supporter $250 – $499

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Back Home Again In Indiana, MacDonald/Hanley TEL: E-MAIL: Hide and Seek, Imogen Heape Please make checks payable to “Naumburg Orchestral Concerts, Inc.” and mail to the address above. Moon River, Henry Mancini Sweet Georgia Brown, Bernie/Pinkard/Casey The Naumburg Orchestral Concerts is a non-profit corporation. To obtain a copy of its most recent financial report, please write to: N.Y. State Dept. of Law, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, 3rd Floor, N.Y. N.Y. 10271 Donors List TIME FOR THREE WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE FOLLOWING DONORS WHO MOST GENEROUSLY Violin: Double Bass: DONATED TO THE NAUMBURG ORCHESTRAL CONCERTS. THE LIST WAS UPDATED JULY, 14, 2010. Zachary De Pue Nicolas Kendall Ranaan Meyer D I S T I N G U I S H E D CONTRIBUTOR Helga Busemann BENEFACTOR Anonymous George Calderaro The Estate of Philip H. Naumburg Penelope Bareau Doreena M. Chan his groundbreaking, category-shattering trio, transcends traditional classification, with elements of The Estate of Stephen Naumburg Mary J. Bartos Elinore Chechak Tclassical, country western, gypsy and idioms forming a blend all its own. The members carry a The Estate of Walter W. Naumburg Caroline Thorn Binney Berton M. Chernizer passion for improvisation, composing and arranging, all prime elements of the ensemble’s playing. What Burton Bluestone Robin Cohn started as a trio of musicians who played together BENEFACTOR Charlotte Bluestone Gladys M. Comeau-Morales Anonymous Joanne & Leonard Brumberg Ana Constandino for fun, while students at ’s Curtis Jody & John Arnhold Hiram Carruthers Butler & Andrew Marjorie Crandell Institute for Music, evolved into Time for Three, Robert H. & Joan Arnow Spindler-Roesle Mark Dweck or Tf3 for short, a charismatic ensemble with William L. Bernhard & Catherine Richard & Susan Butt Margaret Emory Cahill Joseph D. Cooper Erika D. Epstein a reputation for limitless enthusiasm and no Bessemer Trust Antony B. Gahan Rozanna Fanelli musical boundaries. The violinists first discovered Lewis & Elizabeth Bryden Macellis K. Glass, MD Henrietta Feldman their mutual love of fiddling in the country western La Fondation Cuvelier George B Grammer Nancy Foner & Peter Swerdloff and bluegrass styles. The bassist then introduced The Gladys Krieble Delmas Michael Gravitz & Tracey Marks Donald W. Fowle Foundation Judith H. Greene Vera Gardner them to his deep roots in jazz and improvisation. The Fleischaker Family Foundation Molly Gurney Lisa Graney & Ronald Hahn After considerable experimentation, the three - In honor of Judy Naumburg Haila Harvey David Heidelberger officially formed Tf3. The ensemble gained instant Forbes Foundation Richard & Carol Headley Mary B. Heller attention in July 2003 during a lightning-induced The Horace W. Goldsmith Thomas J. Healy, Jr. Caroline C. Herrick Foundation Sarah Jackson Steven Hodes power failure at Philadelphia’s Mann Music Michael Gore in honor of Ellin Irma B. Jaffe Fletcher Hodges III Center. While technicians attempted to restore Naumburg London Kenneth L. Johnson Malcolm Holderness Great Island Foundation onstage lighting, Ranaan and Zach, who were both performing with The , obliged Linda C. Jones Gilbert Ireland with an impromptu jam session that included works as far afield from the originally scheduled symphony as Jephson Educational Trusts Willys & Stephen Kals Daniel I. Jacobs Stephen H. Judson Mark Lebwohl, MD Robert & Sue Kamm Jerusalem’s Ridge, Ragtime Annie, and The Orange Blossom Special. The crowd went wild. Hess and Helyn Kline Foundation Joyce Matz Thomas & Meta Katz Jerome J. Lawton Katrina Maxtone-Graham Liliane M. Krauss To date, the group has performed hundreds of engagements as diverse as its music: from featured guest Christopher W. London Anne & Joe McCann Clifford Krinsky soloists with The Philadelphia Orchestra to opening for k.d. lang. MacDonald-Peterson Foundation Denise Mourges - In honor of A.A. Herman Kroshinsky The Mary Elizabeth & Gordon B. Athenson Mannweiler Foundation George Labalme, Jr. Tf3 has performed on many of the nation’s impressive stages, including the Mann Music Center in Pamela M. Nicholas Thomas S. Larson Philadelphia, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and Joe’s Pub in New Betsy Naumburg & Carl Hoffman Virginia Parkhouse Shelah G. Leader Judith E. Naumburg Leonard A. Peduto, Jr Bonnell M. Lombardi York. They have performed their own original works with over 60 orchestras. Atlantic Trust, Stein Roe Investment Marilyn S. Pomerance Counsel Gloria Magida The group recorded the soundtrack to the History Channel’s production, The Janet Rosen Mr. & Mrs. William J. Marks, Jr. Spanish-American War, and in January, 2010, on the E1 Music (formerly Koch) Ronald & Rose Salyk - In memory of John & Mary McAuliffe DONOR Meroslow Salyk label, will release its third CD, 3 Fervent Travelers. Their first recording, titled George & Virginia Elvin Arnold & Esther Mendelson Stephen Salyk & Family Elizabeth W. Milner Time for Three, was released in October 2002, followed by a second CD released in Tom Bernhard & Deborah Goldberg Barbara J. Schnoor Christabel Gough John T. Moran January 2006, We just burned this for you! In addition, Time for Three has made Peter & Marcy Schuck Max Norat Gourary Fund Patricia B. Selch a selection of its music available for digital download. Abbe A. Heller & Scott Kurnit Helena D. Park Florian Simm Myrna Payne Herman Family Fund Ruth Proskauer Smith Janice & Robert M. Lang, Jr. Stanley H. Perlman The ensemble has commissioned the celebrated composer , her Robert & Elaine Snyder Judy Potash work premiered in six performances by Tf3 with The Philadelphia Orchestra Roger D. London MD Walter C. Squire & Sara A. Squire MD Eric G. Naumburg, MD & Becky The Prudential Foundation and Christoph Eschenbach in January 2008. Future commissions will include Elizabeth & Richard Starkey Constance G. Roche Zeligman Hazel & Bernard Strauss works by Chris Brubeck and William Bolcom. For more information on TF3 please see our website www. Jack Taylor Cecile Rodau Bitsy & Sam Tatnall Jennifer Rolfe naumburgconcerts.org Cynthia C. Wainwright John Timberlake Steven & Maggie Wieting Jean Rosenberg Katherine & Heath Watkin Carol Rosenfeld Midge Woolsey has proudly served the tristate community as a broadcaster for over 30 years. Since joining Anthony C. Wood Bernhard G. Ryding SUPPORTER James Zetzel WQXR in 1993, she has been the Weekend Music host and more recently the Weekday Evening host. As a host Anne Bergeron & Stephen Wellmeier Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Sanger Barbara Zucker-Pinchoff, MD Nancy & Roger Saunders on public television’s flagship station Thirteen/WNET she has introduced such specials as Andrea Bocelli’s Stuart M. Bluestone Françoise Bollack & Tom Killian Erwin S. Schaub Emmy nominated Statue of Liberty Concert, The Three Tenors with James FRIEND Helen & Alvin Segal Susan O. Friedman Terri M. Afromowitz Levine live from Paris, and the landmark twenty-four hour event, PBS Philip & Ellen Heidelberger Jacqueline Sheirr Millennium 2000. She has also hosted numerous fundraising events, David L. Hutchinson Nan Ahern Anthony & Mary Smith IBM Corporation Renee Albert Ruth P. Smith including Josh Groban in Concert and Pavarotti in Central Park. Bill & Marilyn Alper Judith Stecher Joan & Andrew Landorf Jean Artesi Suzanne Lemakis - In memory of Barbara Tanzer Behind the scenes, Woolsey worked with Jac Venza on Great Performances, Anna Finkelstein Elizabeth Ashby Judith Wands Richard A. Lipsey & Carrie H. Cohen Simeon Bankoff Patricia Warner the award-winning PBS series of international music, dance and drama Gordon Naumburg Lana R. Berke Janet & Peter White programs. She also served as production executive for award-winning Cynthia L. & John Russell Suzanne Bohning Wilson’s Showtime Services Elizabeth A. Brewer producer David Grubin, working with him on several acclaimed historical Arlene & Bruce Simon Mary E. Wolinski documentaries for the PBS series American Experience and on the poetry series The Language of Life with Bill Andrews-Summers Fund Joan & David Bright Kate Wood & David Sprouls Beth & Dustin Wees Sandra Brooks Richard Yien Moyers. Woolsey has degrees in theater and music, and has served as a director, performer and choreographer In memory of Howard D. Zucker MD Alice Burley Dr. Howard D. Zucker in more than 100 productions with various regional opera and musical theater companies. Music Pavilion The Mall, Central Park SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1874

he double rows of American Elms, planted fourteen years earlier, create a green tunnel. Sunlight filters through the canopy of new leaves and throws dappled patterns of light and shade on the gravel walk. It is a beautiful day, the Mall is crowded: ladies in voluminous skirts and colorful hats; Irish nurses in bonnets and white aprons, pushing baby carriages; gentlemen in frock coats and top hats; a few young Tclerks in stylish broadcloth suits; the children in a variety of dress, miniature versions of their parents. It is a decorous crowd; tomorrow—Sunday—is when working people have a holiday and attendance will be even larger. At the north end of the Mall, on the west side, is the bandstand. Mould has pulled out all the stops for this design. The raised platform is covered by a Moorish-style cupola, dark blue and covered with gilt stars. It is topped by a sculpture of a lyre. The roof is supported by crimson cast-iron columns. The bandstand is unoccupied—the Saturday—afternoon concerts start next month. The annual summer series is so popular—up to forty-five thousand people attend—that the park board has provided extra From a Tiffany & Co. card © 1995 a Tiffany & Co. card From seating and has taken the unprecedented step of allowing listeners to sit on the grass. Not everyone admires these free concerts. “The barriers and hedges of society for the time being are let down,” sniffs the Times, “unfortunately also a few of its decencies are forgotten.” The barriers of society are not altogether absent. Across the Mall from the bandstand is a broad concourse where the wealthy park their carriages and, separated from the lower orders by a long wisteria arbor, listen n 1859 Jacob Wrey Mould, an amateur musician and the architect who designed many of the to the music in comfortable isolation. Beside the concourse stands a large one-story building with a original structures in Central Park, persuaded his wealthy friends to pay for free band concerts at a swooping tiled roof and deep overhanging eaves. Originally the Ladies Refreshment Stand, it has recently temporary bandstand in the Ramble, and he arranged their musical programs. The first concert, on been converted into a restaurant called the Casino. July 13, included the Festival March from Tannhäuser, Mendelssohn’s song, “I would that my Love,” Iselections from La Traviata and Strauss’s Sorgenbrecher Waltz. In the summer of 1860 concerts were An excerpt from Witold Rybczynski—A Clearing in the Distance, pp.317-18 in which transferred to the Mall, and The New York Herald reported that the September 22 concert attracted a letter of Frederick Law Olmsted—a principal designer of Central Park is quoted. “at least five thousand persons gathered around the performers, while outside of these were stationed { } an immense number of carriages... filled with the beauty and fashion of New York.” The overwhelming popularity of the concerts prompted Central Park’s board to finance them and to build a permanent Music Pavilion on the west side of the Mall near the Terrace. Mould designed the elaborately painted and brightly gilded Moorish-style wooden and cast-iron structure, completed in 1862. The Parks Department razed the Music Pavilion in 1923. The Naumburg Bandshell, a gift of Elkan Naumburg to ‘the City of New York and its Music Lovers’, The Future of the Bandshell and its Concerts replaced in purpose the former structure. Though the Naumburg Bandshell opened on September 29th 1993 court decision guaranteed that the bandshell would remain. What it did not do was insure the 1923, the Art Commission of New York had approved of the change in 1912 and the design of the maintenance and improvement of the facility. The Parks Department completed repairing the roof of Bandshell in 1916. ‘On the Mall’, composed by Edwin F. Goldman in 1923, to honor Elkan Naumburg, the historic Naumburg Bandshell in 2005. No other restoration of the building is planned at present. was premiered that September afternoon, conducted by Franz Kaltenborn. Astonishingly, during that A summer, 959 concerts were presented on the Concert Ground, over 400 of which were underwritten by The structure lacks two graceful pairs of decorative urns at either side of the half-domed structure and a the Parks Department. It was a popular place, providing a well-liked activity. suspended cast bronze light within its ceiling. It also needs the paint removed from the coffered ceiling, its The Naumburg Bandshell design has historic precedents for its shape in the Pantheon of Rome, or even stonework repaired, the losses replaced, the doors restored, the gilded donor inscription returned and the more closely, in the Imperial Russian pleasure park’s pavilion at Gatchina Palace by Vincenzo Brenna— backstage renovated and fitted with working bathrooms once again. Naumburg Orchestral Concerts hopes his ‘Eagle Pavilion’ of the 1790’s, and also in the later work of the architect F.G.P. Poccianti, particularly the Central Park Conservancy and the Parks Department will restore the historic Naumburg Bandshell and his ‘Cisternone’ at Livorno of 1829-42. It has historic precedents for its function in the outdoor theatres with it the Concert Ground’s role, dating to the 19th century, as a place of great beauty and tranquility in and pavilions of Versailles, for example, or the temples and ‘eye-catchers’ found in the park-like gardens which to enjoy musical concerts in Central Park. of British country houses such as Stourhead and Stowe. The use of European park architecture as a model for what to insert in Central Park was in keeping with Olmsted’s design sources and methods of nearly But given the many demands on funds in NYC it may be too much to hope for. And there is little doubt 60 years earlier. The Naumburg Bandshell was set into the Manhattan schist hillside, which nestles it, that it could benefit from lighting, sound, and electrical improvements. To that end we are considering to prevent views being blocked across the Mall and Concert Ground which caused an earlier proposal a large capital campaign to repair the historic Naumburg Bandshell and enlarge the endowment of of Carrère & Hastings to be found wanting by city and park officials. The design also admirably reflects Naumburg Orchestral Concerts so we can improve and expand our concert schedule. We would like the architect William G. Tachau’s own Ecole des Beaux-Arts classicist and historicist training. The result your opinions, help, contributions, and suggestions. Please see one of us at a concert or write Naumburg was Central Park’s only Neo-Classical building. Orchestral Concerts c/o C.W. London 300 Central Park West, 18 H NewYork, N.Y. 10024-1513