Free Concert to Mark Centennial

The Garden Grove Symphony will celebrate the Orange County Centennial with a free concert at 4 p.m. on Aug. 20 at the city’s Village Green Park.

Music director Edward Peterson will conduct works by Richard Rodgers, Falla and John Williams, among others, and the U.S. Navy Band will join in on Tchaikovsky’s “1812” Overture.

A second pops concert, featuring pop singer Richard Carpenter, will be held in March, 1989.

The orchestra’s four-concert classical series, to be held at 8 p.m. in the Don Wash Auditorium in Garden Grove, will begin Oct. 22 with a program entitled “Legends in Music.”

Peterson will conduct works including the Overture to Rossini’s “William Tell,” Strauss’ “Till Eulenspiegel” and Wolfgang Soering’s “Rumpelstilzchen (Musical Fairytale after the Grimm Brothers),” with KFAC-FM radio announcer Rich Capparela as narrator.

The series will continue:

--Jan. 28, 1989: “European Winterfest”: excerpts from Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” and Prokofiev’s “Lieutenant Kije Suite,” and Sibelius’ Violin Concerto, with soloist Mischa Lefkovitz.

--April 29: “Treasures of the Orient--From Turkey to the Far East”: works by Borodin, Balakirev, Hindemith, and a piano concerto to be announced.

--June 10: “Spotlight on Orange County”: works by Debussy, Prokofiev, Falla and Brent Pierce’s “Orange County Suite,” commissioned by the orchestra. Pinio Dovalis Miner will be the solo pianist in Falla’s “Nights in the Gardens of Spain.”

Children’s concerts will be given Oct. 18 of this year and April 26, 1989.

For information, call (714) 534-7271.