This year's 

HEART of San Francisco

will be a Tribute to the great 

Tony Bennett

We will sing 

"I Left My Heart In San Francisco" 

Dick Conte

As a Jazz Pianist, Dick Conte opened for Tony Bennett. 

As a radio personality, he has interviewed Bennett 

and as a historian of Jazz,

he knows the music and life

of Tony Bennett.



Don’t miss out on hearing his reminisces while watching a mile-high Heart appear above the Golden Gate Bridge. 

You can watch the Heart appear from anywhere with a view of the  Golden Gate Bridge. Sunday afternoon, Octorber 1st, 2023, Golden Gate Bridge.

To hear Dicks commentary, and music and be able to sing “ I Left My Heart In San Francisco (along with everybody else) please link to our live stream via Eventbrite HERE

Don’t miss this spectacular new experience! And say your goodbye to Tony Bennett during this big beautiful unique event. 

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Here is a video of the Heart of SF/ Tony Bennett Experience

with a bit of bittersweet at the end.

Press Release:

Antenna's History of Tony Bennett And The Heart of San Francisco

Antenna Theater's Heart of San Francisco has appeared over the Golden Gate Bridge for several years. It is drawn by a sky-writing plane, the Heart is one-mile high. It is meant to be a virtual manifestation of the essence of San Francisco's soul and visionary spirit.

This year Antenna Theater will dedicate The HEART of San Francisco to the late

Tony Bennett.

Our HEART of San Francisco is, in fact, Tony Bennett's heart. The one he left here, as the song says.

But it's not just Tony's heart.

Many people have sung the song as an expression of leaving their own heart here in San Francisco. That's many hearts left in San Francisco from people worldwide over the years.

San Francisco is clearly filled to the brim with hearts (and love) from everywhere.No other city on earth has been as exalted as a near utopian metropolis. "A Coney Island of the Mind,” as Ferlinghetti would say.

 I believe Duke Ellington put it right:

"San Francisco is one of the great cultural plateaus of the world ~ one of the really urbane communities in the United States ~one of the truly cosmopolitan places, and for many, many years,it always has had a warm welcome for human beings from all over the world."

To be beloved by nearly everyone in the whole world is a joy not to be denied, and yet it also means that the residents and power brokers of the city don't own it.

What?

 Yes, we are not the owners of the Heart of San Francisco. We are the caretakers, the trustees of this immense amount of love that has been invested in our city. And recently, we have not been doing the job that has been asked of us. Sadly SF has lost sight of itself, and now we must find the directionwe were going when we were going in the right direction.

 Tony is mostly known as a great American singer. But he also devoted his life to Civil Rights.He joined the Selma Montgomery March of 1962.Harry Belafonte says Dr. King enlisted him to bring artists into the Civil Rights movement. One of Belafonte's first calls was to friend Tony Bennett.

"This is just insane, so ignorant and but then he told me what went down, what was going down, how some blacks were burned, had gasoline thrown on them, and they were burned.

When I heard that, I said, "I'll go with you.” 

Tony Bennett stands with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Harry Belafonte

Selma Montgomery March 1962 

So the point is that "I Left my Heart in San Francisco " was premiered by a man of immense integrity. A man who not only talked the talk but walked the walk. 

When he gave his heart to San Francisco, it was a gift beyond reproach.

Let's celebrate and honor this.

And sing!

Chris Hardman

Thoughts, questions, or whatever you wish to impart, write me: chris@antenna-theater.org

Pass this on to all your friends and family. and everyone else you know.

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