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July 4th Fireworks Extravaganza with the American Tenors

Verizon Wireless Amphitheater (8808 Irvine Center Drive Irvine, CA 92618)
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$49.00
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$19.00*
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It's summertime and the livin' is easy. Enjoy great music in the great outdoors beginning with a July 4th Extravaganza featuring The American Tenors, a hot young trio that promises to give the Three "European" Tenors a run for their money. Fireworks, picnics and music -- a perfect 4th of July.

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The last date listed for July 4th Fireworks Extravaganza with the American Tenors was Tuesday July 4, 2006 / 8:00pm.

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Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
8808 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92618
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949-855-8095
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Great music, great location, great venue!!! All at a great price!
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It was a wonderful musical event and fireworks show. Transportation for elderly people to easily get to their seats left much to be desired.

Perhaps this facility just does not lend itself to accomodating handicapped folks who are able to walk a short distance unless they bring along a caretaker with a wheel chair.
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A warm evening under the stars listening to the Pacific Symphony, the American tenors and watching the Fireworks.
It couldn't get much better!

The seats we had were excellent. We were near enough to the Fireworks so they were almost in our laps!!
The Pacific Symphony played wonderful Patriotic music and we sung along with the National Anthem.
The Symphony played the Anthem for each branch of the American Armed Forces and asked the Service members that were represented by the Anthem to stand while their song was being played.
It was quite a stirring set of songs and brought a lump to the throat.
All in all a really terrific evening.
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It was a fantastic show. We will definitely purchase tickets for 2007. The Three American Tenors sang beautifully and the choice of songs was very enjoyable.
The fireworks show was impressive, although it lasted less than 10 minutes.
All in all it was a wonderful evening.
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Program:

  • JOHN WILLIAMS: Liberty Fanfare
  • BERNSTEIN: Selections from "West Side Story"
  • RODGERS/HAMMERSTEIN: Selections from "Carousel"
  • STEPHEN FOSTER: Oh, Susanna!
  • COURAGE: Television Theme from "Star Trek"
  • EVANS/LIVINGSTON: Theme from "Bonanza"
  • TRADITIONAL: When Johnny Comes Marching Home
<p>The Pacific Symphony’s special Fourth-of-July program shows how rich American music really is.  From Broadway to Hollywood, from jazz to folk, from Stephen Foster to John Philip Sousa—so many wonderful melodies, and so much to celebrate.  The Three American Tenors lend their great voices to this spectacular patriotic feast in praise of the red, white and blue.</p> <p>We go from the National Emblem, the Star-Spangled Banner and the Liberty Fanfare to a whole smorgasbord of favorites from the theatre, the movies and the music hall.  And our southern neighbors are invited to the celebration.</p> <p>Children of Sanchez (1978) was a memorable  film about a poor Mexican family, directed by Hall Bartlett, starring Anthony Quinn and with a soundtrack by Chuck Mangione.</p> <p>“What a Wonderful World,” a tune by George Weiss and Bob Thiele, will be forever associated with Louis Armstrong who immortalized the words “I see trees of green, red roses too, I see them bloom for me and you…”</p> <p>More American than apple pie, “Turkey in the Straw,” first published in 1834, was originally a fiddle tune:  “As I was a-gwine down the road, with a tired team and a heavy load, I crack’d my whip and the leader sprung, I says day-day to the wagon tongue…”</p> <p>Agustín Lara, the great Mexican songwriter wrote Granada about the legendary city in Spain that had yet to see.  Later, however, he became a guest of honor there, as the city adopted the song as its official anthem.</p> <p>Nicholas Brodsky and Sammy Cahn’s Be My Love was written for Mario Lanza in 1949, and brings back memories of a glorious era of American songwriting.  Those years also produced such great hits as Carousel by Rodgers and Hammerstein, a Romantic story about love that doesn’t end with death.  </p> <p>With West Side Story (1958), a musician of genius, steeped in European classical music, created one of the powerful Broadway musicals.  Boldly transposing the story of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet into contemporary New York, Leonard Bernstein’s masterwork made the historic crossover into “classical” music as the suite drawn from it became a staple of the symphonic repertoire.</p> <p>After intermission, we’ll enjoy music from a number of old television favorites.  In The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (1987) we will revisit Hanna and Barbera’s unforgettable cartoon characters; then we’ll go on an intergalactic voyage with Star Trek, the series of series that has defined a whole age, putting a human face on outer space.  With Bonanza, we’ll come back to Earth, embarking on a Western adventure with the songwriting team Ray Evans and Jay Livingston.  (“We chased lady luck ‘til we finally struck Bonanza, with a gun and a rope and a hatful of hope, planted a family tree…”)</p> <p>Old America beckons with the all-time Stephen Foster favorite “Shenandoah.”  Lee Holdridge’s “American Hymn,” which was heard in Elia Kazan’s classic film East of Eden (1955), based on the John Steinbeck novel and starring James Dean, has become one of the most celebrated American patriotic songs.  </p> <p>“When Johnny Comes Marching Home,” a famous song from the Civil War, remains timely as long as there will be are soldiers fighting in this world.  </p> <p>Earl Robinson and Lewis Allen’s “The House I Live In,” originally performed by Frank Sinatra, reflects on what it means to have a homeland:  “What is America to me, a name, a map or a flag I see… A certain word, democracy, what is America to me?”</p> <p>And what better way to end a Fourth-of-July program than with John Philip Sousa, bandmaster extraordinaire whose marches have become synonymous with American music?  The scintillating piccolo solo in the final portion of “Stars and Stripes” is sure to send everyone home on a wonderful “high.”</p>

About the Ticket Supplier: Pacific Symphony

Pacific Symphony, celebrating its 33rd season in 2011-12, is led by Music Director Carl St.Clair. The largest orchestra formed in the U.S. in the last 40 years, the Symphony is recognized as an outstanding ensemble making strides on both the national and international scene, as well as in its own burgeoning community of Orange County. Presenting more than 100 concerts a year and a rich array of education and community programs, the Symphony reaches more than 275,000 residents--from school children to senior citizens.

The Symphony offers a popular Pops season led by Principal Pops Conductor Richard Kaufman. The Pops series stars some of the world's leading entertainers, and is enhanced by state-of-the-art video and sound. Each Pacific Symphony season also includes Café Ludwig, a three-concert chamber music series, and "Classical Connections," an orchestral series on Sunday afternoons offering rich explorations of selected works led by St.Clair. Assistant Conductor Maxim Eshkenazy brings a passionate commitment to building the next generation of audience and performer through his leadership of the Pacific Symphony Youth Orchestra as well as the highly regarded Family Musical Mornings series.

The Symphony offers moving musical experiences with repertoire ranging from the great orchestral masterworks to music from today's most prominent composers, highlighted by the annual American Composers Festival. The Wall Street Journal said, "Carl St.Clair, the Pacific Symphony's dynamic music director, has devoted 19 years to building not only the orchestra's skills but also the audience's trust and musical sophistication so successfully that they can now present some of the most innovative programming in American classical music to its fast-growing, rapidly diversifying community."

In addition to its winter home, the Symphony presents a summer outdoor series at Irvine's Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, the organization's summer residence since 1987.