{"id":22667,"date":"2016-05-30T00:23:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T07:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22667"},"modified":"2016-05-30T00:23:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T07:23:59","slug":"free-symphonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/free-symphonies\/","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s Free Symphonies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/symphfre.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Redlands<\/strong> Bowl (left) offers one of the best, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/entertainment\/concerts\/redlands-summer-music-festival.html\">free symphony seasons<\/a> under the Southern California skies. The festival of classical, patriotic and Broadway music closes on August 19, 2016 with the 1812 Overture and Fireworks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Redwood City<\/strong>\u00a0hosts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/entertainment\/concerts\/redwood-city-concerts.html\">many free summer concerts<\/a>, including symphony\u00a0on the Courthouse Square. This year Redwood Symphony (2nd photo-left) on June 18 presents\u00a0William Tell Overture (excerpt), music from movie composers James Horner and John Williams, the opening movement of Beethoven Fifth, and Tchaikovsky&#8217;s 1812 Overture!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Costa Mesa&#8217;s <\/strong>Pacific Symphony (3rd photo from left)\u00a0on June 4\u00a0hosts the\u00a0free\u00a0Plazacast and Community Festival\u00a0on the Arts Plaza at Segerstrom Center for the Arts. Enjoy food trucks and performances by community ensembles, followed by a live simulcast of the evening&#8217;s performance in the concert hall.\u00a0Projected onto the wall of the plaza guests watch Beethoven&#8217;s Piano Concerto No. 4 featuring Andr\u00e9 Watts, plus Berlioz&#8217; Symphonie Fantastique.\u00a0See\u00a0pacificsymphony.org<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elk Grove<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/elk-grove-strauss-festival.html\">Strauss Festival<\/a> July 28-31 is a free,\u00a0annual staged event featuring a 32-piece orchestra and spectacular dancers (right photo). Each performance ends with a fireworks display.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Redlands Bowl (left) offers one of the best, free symphony seasons under the Southern California skies. The festival of classical, patriotic and Broadway music closes on August 19, 2016 with the 1812 Overture and Fireworks. Redwood City\u00a0hosts many free summer concerts, including symphony\u00a0on the Courthouse Square. This year Redwood Symphony (2nd photo-left) on June 18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22667"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}