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  San Francisco, USA - Stern Grove Festival
announced its 67th
Season of 10 admission-free concerts that will take place every Sunday at 2:00
p.m. from June
13 through August 15, 2004 at San Francisco's
Sigmund Stern Grove (19th Avenue and Sloat Boulevard).
This year, the festival continues to make good on a
promise made to
the entire Bay Area community in 1938--to present a
selection of the
world's best performing arts each summer, completely
admission-free.
There will be a world-premiere recomposition of Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue;" the Regina
Carter Quintet
with the innovative Tin Hat Trio; Mexican-American singer
Lila
Downs;
Algerian singer Souad Massi;
Senegal's
Youssou N'Dour and highlife sensations West
African Highlife Band;
Indian percussionist
Trilok
Gurtu; Gamelan Sekar Jaya with
performers from
Bali; world-beat producers
Ex-Centric Sound System and
Mercan
Dede; the San
Francisco Symphony; blues with the John Hammond Trio and
eclectic Robert
Bradley's Blackwater Surprise; the Long Beach Opera
Company; and the San
Francisco Ballet. The Festival also presents innovative
outreach and
education programs for kids, pre-concert artist talks,
historic walking
tours, and other activities at the 33-acre Sigmund Stern
Grove.
Schedule:
* Sunday, June 13: The Regina Carter Quintet and Tin Hat
Trio
* Sunday, June 20: San Francisco Symphony with Edwin Outwater conducting
works by Stravinsky, Dvorak, and
Mussorgsky/Rimsky-Korsakov
* Sunday, June 27: Long Beach Opera with conductor
Andreas Mitisek,
performing Astor Piazzolla's tango operita
"Maria de Buenos Aires"
* Sunday, July 4: Anthony Brown's Asian American
Orchestra and Melody of
China, performing a world premiere recomposition of
Gershwin's "Rhapsody in
Blue"
* Sunday, July 11: Mexican-American singer Lila Downs
and Algerian singer Souad Massi
* Sunday, July 18: Electrifying Senegalese vocalist Youssou N' Dour and The
Super Etoile de Dakar and local favorite West African
Highlife Band
* Sunday, July 25: Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu and
local ensemble
Gamelan Sekar Jaya with performers from Bali
* Sunday, August 1: World-beat producers Mercan Dede and
Ex-Centric Sound
System
* Sunday, August 8: San Francisco Ballet, Helgi Tomasson,
Artistic Director
* Sunday, August 15: Blues sensations the John Hammond
Trio and Robert
Bradley's Blackwater Surprise
Admission is free. No tickets or reservations are required.
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