| A FREE summer music festival, sponsored by Target with media support provided by San Jose Mercury News & KDFC.
 All performances held on the green at San Jose State University.
- Enter at 4th Street and San Carlos Street.
- Plentiful parking available nearby.
- Bring a picnic lunch or supper and your beach chair.
- Relax on the campus lawn well away from the din of traffic.
- Enjoy the music of summer.
THANK YOU!
More than 16,200 people joined us this summer for great free music and 4,600 of scoops of free ice cream. Be sure to sign up for our email newsletter (on the left-hand side of this page) to be the first to learn about next year's festival.
  
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American All Stars
Saturday 7:00 pm July 24, 2010
Spend a warm summer evening with us listening to your favorite light classics and symphonic pop music, all by leading American composers. Pianist Jon Nakamatsu, internationally renowned and locally beloved, will join the orchestra to perform George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.
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| Soloist(s): | Jon Nakamatsu, piano
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Craig Bohmler Overture 1-5-0
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Duke Ellington Take the A Train
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Aaron Copland Rodeo: Saturday Night Waltz & Hoedown
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Leonard Bernstein Mambo from West Side Story
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Elmer Bernstein The Magnificent Seven
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George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
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John Williams Raiders of the Lost Ark
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To The Rescue - Target Family Concert
Sunday 5:30pm July 25, 2010
Music that conjures up drama, adventure and heroics enough to satisfy all ages -- including the very young. Sports columnist Mark Purdy will narrate "Casey at the Bat" accompanied by the full orchestra. Conductor Peter Jaffe, brilliant, funny, informal and a little larger than life, leads the whole affair.
Arrive early for the Ice Cream Social; enjoy free ice cream before the concert!
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Gioacchino Rossini The William Tell Overture
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Igor Stravinsky Firebird: Berceuse - Finale
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John Williams Raiders of the Lost Ark
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Steven Reineke Casey at the Bat
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Elmer Bernstein The Magnificent Seven
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Richard Wagner The Ride of the Valkyries
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Von Suppé Light Cavalry Overture -- and more
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Spanish Harlem Orchestra
Friday 7:00 pm July 30, 2010
Pianist/composer/arranger Oscar Hernández leads this thirteen-member all-star ensemble through the classic sounds of New York City Salsa. Hailed as 'one of Latin music's greatest bands,' this multiple Grammy award-winning troupe travels all over the world performing the best of salsa.
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| Soloist(s): | Spanish Harlem Orchestra
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Here's To The Ladies
Saturday 7:00 pm July 31, 2010
Christine Andreas's heritage as a true Broadway diva extends from her award-winning portrayal of Eliza Doolittle in the 20th anniversary revival of My Fair Lady to the current runaway Broadway hit, La Cage Aux Folles.
This concert, performed with the SSV orchestra, is her tribute to the great ladies of the Great White Way -- Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, Julie Andrews, Barbara Streisand, Angela Lansbury and more -- laced with anecdotes about these sparkling stars of Broadway.
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| Conductor: | William Liberatore
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| Soloist(s): | Christine Andreas
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Your Hit Parade
Sunday 5:30pm August 1, 2010
Your Hit Parade was one of the most popular programs on radio and early television from 1935 to 1955. A weekly countdown of the top Pops music of the day, including Big Band numbers, Ella Fitzgerald, the Andrews Sisters, Bing Crosby and early Frank Sinatra, the program defined the youth of a generation. Our singers and orchestra will recreate that era, performing time-honored ballads, one-hit wonders and novelty songs. Join us for your own hit parade!
Come take a Sentimental
Journey and Get
In The Mood to Sing, Sing Sing. It's a fine evening for a Moonlight Serenade--and
a little Misbehavin--as
we Accentuate The
Positive with the best best music of the era. Features soloists Molly Bell,
Annemarie Martin,
Angela Gunter,
Ric Iverson, and Pierce Peter Brandt.
Come early for our second Ice Cream Social on this closing Sunday -- free ice cream for all, served until the concert begins.
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