Building on its June “Go4Baroque” Summer MusicFest kickoff series, TOCCATA — Tahoe Symphony Orchestra will continue its 21-concert Summer MusicFest with the TOCCATA BOPS series featuring best of Broadway, opera, pops, and patriotic selections.
The first concert is at 7 p.m. Sunday, July 3 on the Village Green in Incline Village as part of Red, White and Tahoe Blue. The program opens with a rousing patriotic medley for orchestra and chorus and Chaminade’s Concertino for Flute and Orchestra performed by principal flute from the Puerto Rico Symphony, Josue Casillas. Brad Perry and Emzy Burroughs will sing of everlasting friendship in Bizet’s duet from his opera, the Pearlfishers, while sopranos Joy Strotz and Becky Earl and mezzo soprano, Liudmila Mullin will delight the audience with operatic arias and popular songs.
The concert continues with hits for the TOCCATA Summer MusicFest chorus: Amazing Grace; the Going Home theme from Dvorak’s 9th Symphony; and “Alleluia-Regina Coeli” from Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana. The concert concludes with Sousa’s Stars and Stripes, a new Matt Mullin arrangement of God Bless America, and an audience sing-a-long of America the Beautiful featuring the newly formed North Lake Tahoe Children’s Chorus.
Other concerts in the series will be presented at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 5 at the Bartley Ranch Amphitheater, 6000 Bartley Ranch Road, Reno, as part of Artown, and 7 p.m. Friday, July 8, at St. Theresa Catholic Church, 1041 Lyons Ave., South Lake Tahoe. The final presentation will be at 4 p.m. Sunday, July 10 at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, 3596 N. Sunridge Drive, Carson City.
Maestro James Rawie will conduct all performances.
The Red, White and Tahoe Blue concert will be free of admission charge. The Artown performance offers free admission to all lawn areas and upper gallery seating with lower gallery preferred seating available for $40.
Other concerts have tickets available at the door or online at www.ToccataTahoe.org. General admission is $30 adults and $25 for seniors. Youth/students under age 24 are $5 and youth 18 and under enter free. Preferred seating is $40 and $15 for youth/students.
For more information, go to www.ToccataTahoe.com, or call 775-313-9697, or email ToccataTahoe@gmail.com.