Posted by: thepinetree on 07/24/2008 07:09 PM
Updated by: Kim_Hamilton on 07/28/2008 09:04 AM
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Bear Valley Music Festival Is Here To Stay for Two Weeks!
Bear Valley, CA…It’s that time of the year again! The Bear Valley Music Festival is celebrating 40 years this summer as they turn up the heat with their performance schedule. The opening act this season is “Oh, What a Night!” with a tribute to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons music. Favorites like “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Walk Like a Man,” or “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” will start your toes tapping on Saturday night, July 26, at the start of the two-week-long festival....
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This classic music celebration, a mix of popular music and classical performed in a palace-size 1,250-seat tent set amid high Sierra pines and aspen, started in the Cathedral Lounge at the Bear Valley Lodge. Entertaining for the whole family, the Festival is the summer highlight of Bear Valley Village on Ebbetts Pass, Highway 4, a National Scenic Byway.
This year’s classical program is full of popular favorites. “We came up with a schedule that will appeal to everyone. We have the William Tel Overture (theme from the Lone Ranger), Star Wars with a laser light show, and American favorites like the Star Spangled Banner. Of course, we threw in a few performances that will ‘Wow’ the audiences such Rachmaninoff’s piano concerto #2 and Mendelssohn’s violin concerto,” Randy Hanvelt, President, Bear Valley Music Festival.
“Bear Valley Rocks” is the theme for the first week, which opens with “Oh, What a Night!” a tribute to Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Succeeding evenings include “The Best of Broadway Pops,” “County Line Trio,” “Yesterday – Beatles Tribute Band,” and, at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, a Free Children’s Concert coupled with the immensely popular “Teddy Bear Picnic.” This free performance will feature the story “The Bremen Town Musicians” and many Disney favorites. “The children’s concert is a unique opportunity in this area to take children to a symphony concert that is short and sweet. There is even an opportunity to take part in our ‘instrument petty zoo,’ which my kids love,” Caroline Schirato, Executive Director, Bear Valley Music Festival. “If we don’t introduce this wonderful music to our children, the only exposure they will get is from the credits rolling on the Disney movies.”
Later that evening, Aug. 2, the Bear Valley Festival Orchestra will perform “America’s Favorite Music,” featuring violinist Sandra Cameron and music by Copland, Barber, and Gershwin. Following the performance is the very lively and surprisingly fun auction and picnic style dinner.
The music continues Aug. 3 with the Bear Valley Festival Orchestra offering “Music with a Latin Flair,” featuring Croatian guitarist Zoran Dukic. Chamber music and wine tasting is the Aug. 5.
A change of venue occurs on Wednesday, Aug. 6, when the Festival presents “Local Band Night” in the grand, but cozy Bear Valley Lodge, at the heart of Bear Valley Village. Successive nights that week, back in the tent, feature the jazz group “Hot Club of San Francisco,” returning for it’s second season; the Bear Valley Festival Orchestra with pianist Santiago Rodriquez performing top Russian hits, including Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and two of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies, Romeo and Juliet and the ever-popular Overture 1812.
On Saturday, Aug. 9, the Bear Valley Festival Orchestra “Goes Hollywood” with performances of “Victory at Sea” and the theme song Bolero from the movie “10,” and the theme from “Star Wars” highlighted with a dramatic Laser Light Show. “This is a real change for us, and we are excited at the response so far. Overall, our ticket sales are up, but donations are still struggling,” Randy Hanvelt, President, Bear Valley Music Festival.
The Festival concludes at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 10, with an “audience choice,” a selection of classics from the Festival’s 40 years of performances.
For additional details, visit our web site, www.bearvalleymusic.org or call us at (209) 753-2574.
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