TARGET® SYMPHONY IN THE CITIES

TARGET® SYMPHONY IN THE CITIES
It's the perfect way to end a lazy summer day: Pacific Symphony's 2010 Target Symphony in the Cities free concerts, which soon head out to three Orange County communities for "An Evening of Song and Dance"—full of joyful tunes and toe-tapping favorites!



For the sixth year in a row, Target returns as the title sponsor for this popular event, which attracts thousands of people each summer, many of whom arrive with picnics and lawn chairs and make it a thoroughly enjoyable and memorable summer experience.

Featuring high-quality family entertainment in the great outdoors, this year's program features special guest artists: soprano Joni Fukada-Prado and baritone Sean Ghazi, and much-loved classical and pops music by Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Dvorak, Strauss Jr., Bizet, Berlin, Loewe and Porter—plus a few favorite patriotic tunes!

"The first thing that came into my mind when planning this year's Target Symphony in the Cities concerts were the words: 'I could have danced all night,'" says Maestro St.Clair. "The program then began to take shape and to include famous songs and, of course, music about dance-every kind of dance that makes people's toes tap!"


This year's first free concert of the series takes place in Mission Viejo on July 31, 7 p.m., at the Village Green in Oso Viejo Park; (with the city's Prelude in the Park activities beginning at 4 p.m., during which a community mural featuring musicians is to be unveiled). The final two concerts are scheduled for Irvine's Heritage Park on Aug. 1 and Lake Forest's Pittsford Park on Aug.15, both starting at 7 p.m.

As always, a "Musical Playground," with many interactive and hands-on activities for children, begins at 5:30 p.m. in all three cities, and includes making an instrument, playing a drum, meeting a musician and a conducting clinic with Maestro St.Clair.