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Used Outdoor Concerts: The public library system consists of the main library in the Civic Center and 26 branches throughout the city. There are also more than 100 private business, scientific, and other collections and numerous circulating libraries. Musical activities sponsored by the city include the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (q.v.), which in addition to its regular season concerts gives an annual series of summer Pop Concerts at popular prices; and the San Francisco Opera (q.v.). The city also maintains a municipal band and chorus, gives financial aid to the San Francisco Ballet Guild and, through its Art Commission, sponsors an annual Outdoor Art Show and an International Film Festival.
During the summer months, concerts given at Ravinia Park in Highland Park, a s urb of Chicago. Ravinia is an outdoor pavi used outdoor concerts for productions of various kinds. Tl are a number of theaters that present the j ductions of traveling companies. Also, the Go man Memorial Theatre of the Art Institute gi several fine productions each year.
Traveler, What of the Night? On the cultural side of the metropolitan evening, watch for the Athens State Symphony Orchestra, which offers very good concerts in season—remember that Dmitri Mitropoulos is a Greek—and for the summer, open-air concerts, classic dance evenings and other attractions that have been mentioned as features of the Odeon of Herod.es Atticus. |
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