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“Accomplished veterans of their trade” might be a suitable way to describe those providing the entertainment for this weekend’s Oakleaf Music Festival at Conejo Community Park.

Organizers have scheduled a lineup that includes the New York Philharmonic concertmaster, a Broadway singer and other acts sure to please jazz, classical, musical-comedy and New Age music fans.

“Our main concern is to schedule quality acts for the three different types of concerts we offer,” festival manager Susan Holt said. “This year is going to be particularly great.”

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The festival lineup:

SATURDAY

* 6 p.m.: “Mozart . . . and More” featuring New York Philharmonic concertmaster and violinist Glenn Dicterow and the Conejo Symphony Orchestra (directed by Elmer Ramsey). Dicterow will perform Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5. Other selections include Mozart’s “Overture to the Marriage of Figaro” and Dvorak’s “Slavonic Dances.”

SUNDAY

* 1 p.m.: The 12-member L.A. Jazz Choir, directed by Gerald Eskelin, will be accompanied by a jazz combo.

Also, the four-member group Free Flight will blend New Age, classical, jazz and rock.

* 6 p.m.: Singer-dancer Carol Lawrence will be accompanied by the Conejo Symphony Orchestra. Lawrence will perform theater music selections, including songs from “Westside Story.” In a tribute to Aaron Copland, the symphony will perform “Billy the Kid Suite,” and in honor of Leonard Bernstein, “Overture to Candide.”

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