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Dear ALAN,
We're happy to announce this year's full roster of
concerts for Target Summer Pops. Be sure to save the dates! The 6th
edition of our Festival is moving a few hundred yards to Tower Hall
Lawn on the San Jose State University campus (behind the library), but
everything else is the same.
Our generous sponsors are back, ensuring that the concerts continue to
be entirely FREE. Symphony Silicon Valley produces Target Summer Pops,
and we are proud of the community's enthusiasm for the South Bay's
biggest free music festival.
There's a lot happening, and we want to be sure that you don't miss
anything! So without further ado:
- July
27th at 7:00pm, Sounds
of Summer - seasonal classics on the lawn.
- July
28th at 5:30pm, The
Wild Wild West - plus free ice cream.
- August
2nd at 7:00pm, The world-renowned Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.
- August
3rd at 7:00pm, Simply
Sinatra - no elaboration needed.
- August
4th at 5:30pm, Star
Wars - plus more free ice cream! Presented in
collaboration with the Tech Museum of Innovation.
It's fun, it's
free - it's for you!
Andrew
Bales, President
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Target Summer Pops Festival -
2013 Edition
July 27 to August 4
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San
Jose State University Tower Hall Lawn
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Symphony Silicon
Valley, Target, Applied Materials, the City of San Jose and San Jose
State University join together to bring you five festive concerts this
summer and all for FREE!
We have a new partner this season. The Tech Museum of Innovation joins
the Symphony to promote our final concert of the Festival, STAR WARS. This
coming October, the Tech Museum will present the blockbuster show: STAR WARS: Where Science Meets
Imagination. The last concert of Target Summer Pops
will give you a musical preview, with selections from the scores of all
six STAR WARS movies.
Maestro Peter
Jaffe's skill, enthusiasm, and humor have made him an
audience and orchestra favorite, and he returns for three concerts. A
sure-fire way to launch the Festival is to present some of the world's
greatest music! Maestro Jaffe starts July 27th at 7:00 pm with Sounds of Summer.
The Symphony's Associate Concertmaster Christina Mok is featured with
the orchestra, performing Summer
from two versions of The
Four Seasons - Vivaldi's original and tango master
Piazzolla's rhythm-infused 'update'.
The second
program, titled The
Wild Wild West, is filled with timeless Hollywood music
conjurin' up posses, showdowns, dusty plains, and embattled heroes. And
added treat includes "Rawhide," sung by our previous
Ghostbusting guest star, Ralph
Cato. Not to mention free ice cream!
The second week
kicks off with the internationally known contemporary big band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
playing to us all. Getting to hear them for free is almost criminal,
we're told, so when you invite guests, don't tell them the price of
admission (FREE!). Come early - this concert will draw a crowd!
Simply
Sinatra needs very little introduction. Las Vegas headliner Steve Lippia
draws standing-room-only crowds and rave reviews at his concerts
throughout North America. he will join the Symphony orchestra to
perform the original charts from this great songbook.
Target Summer
Pops will close with A
long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... John
Williams's immortal music of STAR WARS (selections from all six movies,
including some rarely performed excerpts!) Did I mention that every
Sunday concert is preceded by free ice cream? Arrive early and enjoy
Target Summer Pops on the Tower Hall Lawn at San Jose State
University.
Read
on for more details!
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Sounds of Summer
Saturday
July 27, 7:00pm
FREE!
Popular
light classics
Maestro Peter Jaffe,
Symphony Silicon Valley and violinist Christina Mok open the Festival
with popular light classics, featuring selections from Vivaldi's Four
Seasons matched with Piazzolla's tango-colored Four Seasons of Buenos
Aires. An evening of full-orchestra favorites.
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Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Friday
August 2, 7:00pm
FREE!
Go, Daddy-O!
Grab the chance to
see this electrifying contemporary Swing Revival band live and free!
From '40s swing to Cab Calloway, boogie woogie to New Orleans blues,
its rhythm section is beat only by its horns - or vice versa.
"Go Daddy-O," "Mr. Pinstripe Suit," "The
Jumpin' Jive" - it doesn't get better than this.
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The Wild Wild West
Sunday
July 28, 5:30pm
FREE!
A family treat
A family treat, with themes
from Western films and TV classics - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,
the Wild Wild West, The Magnificent Seven, and many more. Come early
to enjoy the Festival's first Sunday ice cream social. All free, all
on Tower Lawn.
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Simply Sinatra
Saturday
August 3, 7:00pm
FREE!
Featuring Steve Lippia
Steve
Lippia leads a tribute to the timeless music of Frank Sinatra. Hear
all your favorites by this Vegas headliner, whose concerts sell out from
NYC's Birdland and the Boston Pops to Europe and South America. But
here in San Jose there's no charge; just bring a picnic and
enjoy.
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Join Us
ON THE LAWN
San Jose State
University
4th
Street at San Fernando Street
Paid parking lots available at 4th and San Salvador, 4th
and San Fernando or 2nd and San Carlos Streets. Easy access to
Light Rail.
FREE FESTIVAL
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
Sunday
August 4, 5:30pm
FREE!
"STAR
WARS: Where Science Meets Imagination" is coming to The
Tech Museum of Innovation this October. Get a head start: join us for a summer
evening filled with John Williams's unforgettable music for this
legendary cinematic saga. May the Force be with you - and free ice
cream, too.
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About Symphony
Silicon Valley
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Symphony Silicon Valley is the professional symphony
orchestra of San Jose. Founded in 2002, the nonprofit company has
progressed from a daring idea to rapidly become the greater South Bay's
premiere orchestra and a notable community success story. The
Symphony's artists, nationally recruited, locally resident, with an average
performance tenure in San Jose of over 20 years, are recognized as
among the best in the greater Bay Area. Led by an exciting roster
of distinguished guest conductors on the European model, the Symphony
is an anchor tenant of San Jose's magnificently restored downtown
California Theatre, one of Northern California's most outstanding music
halls. Symphony Silicon Valley is setting an example of an
innovative business model in the arts -- market driven and financially
conservative, with low overhead and the flexibility to match its
programming to its support base. Besides the Orchestra's core
Classics programming, the Symphony's other concerts include Target
Summer Pops free music festival, five diverse concerts produced
outdoors on the lawn and annually bringing nearly 17,000 people out to
enjoy totally free and family-friendly music; and ArtSPARK, the
County's new arts education program for all elementary students in
grades 3-6. This school year the program will serve 33,000 students..
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