First Redlands Bowl Symphony celebrates America the Beautiful, June 28

On Friday night at 8:15, June 28, the Redlands Bowl Summer Music
Festival will present its first symphony concert of the 2002 season. Titled "America the Beautiful", the program will celebrate America's music and music about America.
"There will be plenty of musical fireworks," said Maestro Frank
Fetta, beginning his twenty-first season as Artistic Advisor of the
festival and conductor of the Summer Festival Symphony Orchestra. For this concert, Fetta will direct members of the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra. Featured with the orchestra, Broadway star Cathy Rigby and her husband, Tom McCoy, will perform as guest soloists.
"This patriotic-themed program really fell together," said Fetta,
"with Cathy as the first woman gymnast from the USA to win a gold medal in world gymnastics competitions, and she and her husband such proponents of the American theater."
Rigby and McCoy will perform several selections from Broadway
musicals, including "Peter Pan" for which Rigby starred in the title roll on Broadway, and "Annie Get Your Gun". McCoy will sing "Impossible Dream" from "Man of La Mancha" and Rigby will add "Send in the Clowns" by Sondheim.
"Both of these performers have really good voices," exclaimed
Fetta, "and they are very savvy in musical theater. After Cathy won her gold medals in gymnastics, her talent came out, and she was a shoe-in for the roll in 'Peter Pan'." Rigby received a Tony Award nomination as Best Actress for this roll.
Rigby and McCoy, with their McCoy Rigby Entertainment company, have performed throughout the country on several national tours. Their company has received prestigious awards and critical acclaim wherever they perform.

Fetta will lead the Festival Orchestra in Carmen Dragon's fantastic
arrangement of "America the Beautiful", selections by Irving Berlin, Gershwin's "American in Paris", and the "1812 Ceremonial Overture" by Tchaikovsky.
This concert, which begins at 8:15 p.m., will be dedicated to the
memory of the late Conant Halsey, long-time President and Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Redlands Community Music Association. The intermission ushers will be representatives of the Rotary Club of Redlands, and the speaker will be Marsha Gebara, Vice President and Program Director for RCMA.
Continuing the tradition begun in 1924, this and all concerts are
open to the public at no charge, and a free-will offering will be
collected at intermission. For more information about this concert, call the Redlands Bowl office at 909/793-7316 or visit the web site at www.redlandbowl.org.
To reach the Redlands Bowl between Grant and Eureka Streets in
Redlands, enter the Redlands area on I-10; from the west, exit at Orange Street, turn right at the end of the ramp onto Eureka Street, proceed across Redlands Blvd. and Brookside Ave. to the Bowl area; from the east, exit at Sixth Street, turn left at the end of the ramp onto Sixth Street, proceed to Pearl Ave. and turn right to Orange Street, turn left on Orange to Brookside Ave., turn right on Brookside to Eureka Street, and turn left on Eureka to the Bowl area. Parking is on streets in the area, or in the church and public parking lots.