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Get ready to put on your dancin’ shoes as the Brooklyn Philharmonic performs at Celebrate Brooklyn on July 14.

Brooklyn’s most famous resident orchestra (which has been playing free summer concerts for 33 years) takes to the band shell in Prospect Park for an evening of classical crowd-pleasers which are sure to get the audience’s feet tapping and their bodies swaying.

After the opening notes of Arturo Marquez’s Mexican dance-inspired "Danzon No. 2," the orchestra - led by conductor Robert Moody (pictured) - will run through several rhythmic showpieces that demonstrate how the universal art form of dance is handled by various composers.

Once Marquez’s Mexican piece ends, the program shifts to the United States for the western frontier rhythms of "Four Dance Episodes" from Aaron Copland’s ballet "Rodeo," then on to Seville, Spain, for Frenchman Georges Bizet’s famous dance sequences from his opera "Carmen." Finally, we travel to Russia for the folk-inspired rhythms of Stravinsky’s balletic masterpiece, "The Firebird."

And for good measure, French mezzo-soprano Marie Lenormand will join Maestro Moody and the orchestra for the show-stopping number "What a Movie!" from "Trouble in Tahiti," Leonard Bernstein’s one-act opera from 1952.

The combination of Celebrate Brooklyn - which is now in its 28th year - and the Brooklyn Philharmonic - which will be performing its 27th concert as part of the festival - is an unbeatable one during a muggy summer night in Brooklyn.

The Brooklyn Philharmonic performs Marquez, Bernstein, Copland, Bizet and Tchaikovsky on July 14 at 8 pm at the Prospect Park band shell. Enter the park at Prospect Park West and Ninth Street. Admission is free, but a $3 donation for Celebrate Brooklyn is suggested. For further information, visit www.celebratebrooklyn.org or www.brooklynphilharmonic.org.

­ Kevin Filipski

©2006 Community Newspaper Group

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