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The Minneapolis Pops 2008 Concert Season
Jere Lantz, Music Director
All concerts are performed at the Lake Harriet Bandshell unless otherwise noted.
Saturday, June 28, 7:30 p.m. - POPS PREVIEW POTPOURRI
Our menu for a feast of summer concerts looks ahead to the music we’ll be offering during coming weeks.
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Sunday, June 29, 5:30 p.m. - ALWAYS IN SEASON
Soprano Elisabeth Comeaux and tenor Dan Dressen lead us through a year of holidays in song, from New Year’s Eve in Vienna to May Day in Russia, August “Summertime” and a Thanksgiving “Turkey in the Straw!”
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Saturday, July 5, 7:30 p.m. - TRES MUNDOS: Three Worlds
We add some spice to our annual holiday celebration as we go Pan-American with local/international trio Tres Mundos, featuring the music of Cuba, Brazil and the U.S. Caramba!
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Sunday, July 6, 5:30 p.m. - MY KIND OF TOWN
Globetrotting once again, we’ll be visiting musical towns we love: London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, New York, St. Paul, Chicago, and more. Where did you leave your heart?
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Saturday, July 12, 7:30 p.m. - THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE
Our friends from the Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company join us once again in what may just be the ribticklingest G&S show of them all. Ta-ran-ta-ra, ta-ran-ta-ra!
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Saturday, July 19, 7:30 p.m. - BYE-BYE, IRON CURTAIN!
We look ahead to the 20th anniversary of Eastern Europe’s rejoining the rest of the world in a concert of music that’s Czech, Russian, Polish, Albanian, Rumanian and Hungarian, featuring our Polish-born concertmaster Michal Sobieski.
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Sunday, July 20, 5:30 p.m. - The ProducersThe cast of Chanhassen Dinner Theatre¹s main stage production of The
Producers join us in a concert featuring selections from this and other hit
Broadway musicals.
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Tuesday, July 22, 6:30 p.m. Elliot Park - Going into ProductionTake a walk with us down old Broadway, as we highlight selections from
Showboat and Camelot, and then take a waltz with Cinderella.
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Wednesday, July 23, Noon, University of Minnesota Mall - BYE-BYE, IRON CURTAIN!
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Saturday, July 26, 7:30 p.m. - KIDS PLAY
We double the size of our orchestra, adding talented teenagers in Haydn’s Cello Concerto, a Tchaikovsky symphony, the Blue Danube Waltz and “Star Trek Through the Years.” May they live long and prosper!
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Sunday, July 27, 5:30 p.m. - THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE
Our traditional season finale as our Lake Harriet audience chooses its favorites to hear while WCCO and Prairie Home Companion star Tim Russell counts the votes.
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