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Second Sunday Summer Serenades Series Presents Heart of Texas Concert Band

Host Organization: Bank of the Hills and the City of Kerrville Parks and Recreation Dept.
Date: Sunday, July 10
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Louise Hays Park
Kerrville, TX

This open-air concert on the banks of the Guadalupe River features an 80 member band whose ages range from 15 to 80. Led by Mark Rogers, with Karl Olson as associate conductor, the band attracts its members from among students, professional people and retirees. Concert-goers are encouraged to bring ice chests, lawn chairs and blankets. Leashed pets are welcome. An ensemble from the Hill Country Youth Orchestras plays prior to each concert.

For more information: (830) 285-2265


Miss Saigon

Host Organization: Woodlawn Theatre
Date: Sunday, July 10
Time: 3 p.m.
Venue: Woodlawn Theatre
1920 Fredericksburg Road, San Antonio, TX

This musical is based on Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly, Miss Saigon tells the tragic tale of a failed romance during the 1970’s Vietnam War.

For more information and tickets: (210) 738-1117 or woodlawntheatre.com


Buried Child by Sam Shepard

Host Organization: Classic Theatre of San Antonio
Date: Sunday, July 10
Time: 3 p.m.
Venue: Sterling Houston Theatre at Jump-Start
1400 S. Alamo, 108 Blue Star in the Blue Star Arts Complex

The Classic Theatre of San Antonio opens the 2011-2012 Season with a haunting and darkly comic masterpiece. This 1979 Pulitzer Prize winner punctures the Norman Rockwell-like exterior of American family life, revealing a disturbingly rotten core. The play runs through July 24.

For more information: (210) 589-8450 or classictheatre.org


Musica Antiqua Live

Host Organization: Musica Antiqua
Date: Sunday, July 10
Time: 4 p.m.
Venue: Christ Lutheran Church of Alamo Heights
6710 Broadway, San Antonio, TX

The ensemble Canzona with harpsichordist Christina Edelen will present a concert of music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque. The program will be narrated by Gerald Self and will feature rarely-heard masterpieces of the 15th-18th centuries.

For more information: earlymusicsa.org

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