Edwin Outwater, Director of Summer Concerts for the San Francisco Symphony (Photo: Larry Williamson/SF Symphony) July 4: The Center for Performing Arts Plaza in San Jose is presenting a "Big Bang Concert" featuring 80's rocker Bryan Adams (he released an album last fall) and fireworks. July 4: Or spend a free ( CHEAP THRILL) afternoon and evening at the Berkeley Marina, where Tito y Su Son de Cuba, The Rusty String Express, the United States Air Force Band of the Golden West and others entertain the adults, while the kids enjoy magicians, balloon twisters and free dragon boat rides. It's another CHEAP THRILL - tickets are free, details here. July 3: Get a jump on Independence Day with the Oakland Symphony's Sunday concert with Michael Morgan conducting at the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond. Below are a few suggestions for celebrating America's birthday: The Oakland Symphony celebrates the 4th of July with music and fireworks at Richmond's Craneway Pavilion (Photo: Courtesy Oakland Symphony) The second rule is find a comfortable spot to lie back, and "ooh" and "aah" as you watch the fireworks. July 3 & 4: The first rule of the Fourth of July is don't blow off your fingers. Independence Day at the Craneway Pavilion with the Oakland Symphony (Photo: Courtesy of Craneway Pavilion) July 2: And the opera is free ( CHEAP THRILL) in the simulcast on the big screen at AT&T Park of the company's Eurotrashy (in a good way) and well sung Carmen on Saturday. (Photo: San Francisco Opera/Alastair Muir) This is one of the finest productions of this or any season. July 1: We can't resist a shoutout to the final performance of Janáček's Jenufa with the brilliant Karita Mattila (see the scene above). Merola’s new class of 23 singers (with help from their colleagues studying to be music coaches and stage directors) will be performing excerpts from Serse by Handel, The Rake’s Progress by Stravinsky, Arabella, by Strauss, and Dialogues of the Carmelites by Poulenc and more next week in the Schwabacher Summer Concert. July 7 & 9: The Merola Opera Program is where great young singers go to polish their craft for an art form that somehow survives in this age of short attention span music. 2016 Merola participants (Photo: Kristen Loken/Merola Program) Expect a few scenes that need some polishing, and others that will have you laughing hysterically. In Latin History., he’s a dad trying to teach his young son the truth about Latino history, after seeing what a bad job the schools are doing. Berkeley Rep Artistic Director Tony Taccone directed both. He workshopped his 2011 Broadway hit Ghetto Klown at the Rep, and developed his new show, Latin History for Morons, (a co-production with the Public Theater) in the Rep's Ground Floor program. 14: John Leguizamo apparently likes Berkeley Rep as a place to work the kinks out of his one-man shows about growing up in Queens and becoming a movie actor ( Chef, Ice Age, American Ultra). They rock and then they slow down just as nicely for ballads like "Velvet Ring," featuring just Lenker and her acoustic guitar. Details on their Cheap Thrill of a show at the Rickshaw Stop here. I'm a sucker for this from their new album and song “Masterpiece,” with features lyrics like, “This place smells like piss and beer, can you get me out,” reminding me of a lot of sadly wasted evenings. July 5: The indie band Big Thief apparently tours with one of the band members' dogs (see the video above), which would be unbearably twee if they weren't also playing such smart songs about love and loss, all written by vocalist Adrianne Lenker.
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