BEST BETS Saturday 7/29

7:30pm

Music

The California Philharmonic, conducted by founder Victor Vener, continues its outdoor series at the Arboretum of L.A. County with a program called “Hollywood Stars,” featuring film scores by James Horner, John Williams and John Corigliano. Soloist in Corigliano’s “Red Violin” is Elizabeth Pitcairn. Featured players in the premiere of Roger Allen Ward’s “Music for Percussion and Orchestra”: the orchestra’s entire percussion section.

* Victor Vener conducting the California Philharmonic, Los Angeles County Arboretum, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. 7:30 p.m. $15 to $55. (626) 300-8200.

8pm

Theater

“An Antigone Story” (A Greek Tragedy Hijack), Cornerstone Theater Company’s newest site-specific, contemporary adaptation of a classic play, is about Antigone and her warring family members: corporate, multimedia and political moguls.

* “An Antigone Story (A Greek Tragedy Hijack),” Subway Terminal Building, 417 S. Hill St., Los Angeles. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 p.m. Ends Aug. 20. $15. (213) 613-1700, Ext. 31.

8pm

Theater

A wooded amphitheater becomes Grover’s Corner, N.H., for Thornton Wilder’s landmark, Pulitzer Prize-winning, bittersweet classic “Our Town,” about ordinary lives in turn-of-the-20th-century, small-town America.

*”Our Town,” Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga. Saturdays, 8 p.m., through Sept. 30; Fridays, 8 p.m., Aug. 4-18; Saturdays, 4 p.m., Aug. 26 and Sept. 2, 4 p.m.; Saturdays, 3 p.m., Oct. 7-21. Ends Oct. 21. $13 to $20. (310) 455-3723.

8pm

Jazz

The Henry Mancini Institute’s schedule of free summer concerts kicks off with trumpeter and film composer Terence Blanchard and Grammy-nominated saxophonist David Sanchez joining the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra, 80 top-flight music scholars from around the world now on scholarship at the Mancini Institute’s Summer Educational Program. Future HMI performances in the seven-concert series include one Aug. 4 with saxophonist Bud Shank and Aug. 13 with bassist Christian McBride.

* Terence Blanchard, David Sanchez, Henry Mancini Orchestra, Royce Hall, UCLA, 8 p.m. Free, reservations required. (310) 825-2101.

8&9:30pm

Jazz

Flutist Dave Valentin, vibraphonist Dave Samuels and guitarist Steve Kahn, each a contemporary jazz star with numerous recordings under his own name, combine beat, bop and salsa as the Caribbean Jazz Project in this two-night run.

* Caribbean Jazz Project, Jazz Bakery, 3233 Helms Ave., Culver City. 8 and 9:30 p.m. $22. Also Sunday, 7 and 8:30 p.m. (310) 271-9039.

midnight

Pop Music

The new Moby? This year’s Fatboy Slim? Brian Transeau, better known as BT, has been reaping the comparisons with his new album, “Movement in Still Life,” and the hot single “Never Gonna Come Back Down” stirring things up in the dance-music world.

BT, Giant, 6655 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood. Midnight. $20. (323) 464-7373.

Freebies

Folk music from the New and Old Worlds collide when the Wild Colonials and Equation explore roots music at Grand Performances, California Plaza Watercourt, 350 S. Grand Ave., downtown L.A. 8 p.m. (213) 687-2159.

Culver City Public Theatre’s second annual summer season of free outdoor classical theater continues with the 17th century play “The Fatal Friendship,” by Catherine Trotter, about a secretly married couple. At Dr. Paul Carlson Memorial Park, Motor Avenue and Braddock Drive, Culver City. Fridays-Saturdays, 2 p.m.. Through Aug. 13. Blankets, low-profile lawn chairs, picnics encouraged. (310) 712-5482.