Fiddles N’ Fables: Music Festival & Free Ice Cream | San Jose

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Fiddles N’ Fables on July 29, 2012 has quickly become a beloved family tradition, with last year’s festival drawing over 16,000 people and giving out 192 gallons of free ice cream. 

A part of Symphony Silicon Valley’s 2012 free outdoor summer music festival, this evening features musical stories for kids and the kid-at-heart. William Tell, March of the Toys, Tubby The Tuba complete with narration, Sleeping Beauty, Empire Strikes Back, Night On Bald Mountain … it’s all music to have adventures by, presented by our irresistible, high-energy Maestro Jaffe, who holds a young audience spellbound.

Come early for free ice cream before the concert.

• Gioachino Rossini: William Tell Overture
• Victor Herbert: March of the Toys
• Joe Green: Xylophonia
• Maurice Ravel: “Laideronnette, Empress of the Pagodas” fromMother Goose Suite:
• Modest Moussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
• Paul Tripp and George Kleinsinger: Tubby the Tuba
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty Suite, Op. 66a (Valse)
• Edvard Grieg: “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from Peer Gynt
• Sergei Prokofiev: “Troika” from Lt. Kije Suite
• John Williams: The Empire Strikes Back

Sponsored by Target, Applied Materials, City of San Jose and KCBS Radio, the Symphony’s 5th annual Target Summer Pops festival brings free professional orchestral music to the community in delightful fully produced lawn concerts under the palms on the green at San Jose State University.

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