Grant Llewellyn Leads A Good, Old-Fashioned Salute to the
Red, White and Blue
July 1: Festival Park, Fayetteville
July 3: Lake Benson Park, Garner
July 4: Booth Amphitheatre Cary
The North Carolina Symphony celebrates our nation?s 236th birthday with a concert of patriotic favorites and high-spirited classics capped by the area?s biggest fireworks displays.
The orchestra performs its traditional free ?Independence Day? concerts with fireworks at Fayetteville?s Festival Park on Sunday,July 1 at 8:00 p.m. and Lake Benson Park in Garner on Tuesday, July 3 at 8:30 p.m.
The free performance and fireworks on Wednesday, July 4 are part of the Symphony?s Rex Healthcare Summerfest Series at Cary?s Booth Amphitheatre. The Cary concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Gates open at 3:00 p.m.
As with every Summerfest concert, outside food and beverages, including wine and beer, are welcome, though concertgoers will have to arrive early to grab the best seats.
The performances mark just the second time Music Director Grant Llewellyn conducts the Symphony?s Independence Day performances in Fayetteville and Garner and just his third July 4 appearance in Cary. He last conducted an Independence Day concert in 2008, and those audiences can attest that though he is Welsh, Llewellyn has American patriotism to spare.
He launches into the festive program with The Star-Spangled Banner and leads the orchestra in rousing, all-American selections including Sousa?s Semper Fidelis March, music from South Pacific and Saving Private Ryan and?in anticipation of the upcoming London Olympics?John Williams?s commanding Olympic Fanfare and Theme.
The Symphony?s principal trumpet, Paul Randall, is featured as soloist on a pair of challenging numbers: Jacques Offenbach?s American Eagle Waltz and Leroy Anderson?s A Trumpeter?s Lullaby. Audience members will also have the chance to lend their voices to the Symphony?s Fourth of July salute with James Stephenson?s Sing Along, America!
The performances are part of the Symphony?s summer ?Concerts in Your Community,? free concerts presented throughout the state in celebration of the orchestra?s 80th anniversary.
Complete information on the performances, as well as the Symphony?s Rex Healthcare Summerfest Series in Cary, taking place now through July 7, and the Symphony?s 80th Anniversary Season is available at www.ncsymphony.org or by calling the Symphony Box Office at? 919.733.2750 or toll free 877.627.6724.
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Festival Park is located along Ray Avenue in between Rowan Street
and Maiden Lane in downtown Fayetteville.
Lake Benson Park is located at 921 Buffaloe Road in Garner.
Booth Amphitheatre is located at 8003 Regency Parkway, just past the intersection of US-1 and US-64/Tryon Road, in Cary.
Food and beverages, including wine and beer, are allowed on the grounds. For the July 4 concert, gates open at 3:00 p.m.
Summerfest is presented by Rex Healthcare and co-sponsored by First Citizens Bank and the Town of Cary. Rex Healthcare Summerfest Series partners are ABB, CaptiveAire, Crabtree Valley Mall and The Umstead Hotel and Spa. The media partner is Cary Magazine.
The Symphony?s statewide partner is Progress Energy. The Fayetteville concert is sponsored by Reed-Lallier Chevrolet and supported in part by the Arts Council of Fayetteville and Cumberland County. The Garner concert is presented by the Town of Garner.
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About the North Carolina Symphony
Founded in 1932, the North Carolina Symphony performs over 175 concerts annually to adults and school children in more than 50 North Carolina counties. An entity of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, the orchestra employs 67 professional musicians, under the artistic leadership of Music Director and Conductor Grant Llewellyn, Resident Conductor William Henry Curryand Associate Conductor Sarah Hicks.
Based in downtown Raleigh?s spectacular Meymandi Concert Hall at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts and an outdoor summer venue at Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, N.C., the Symphony performs about 60 concerts annually in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Cary metropolitan area. It holds regular concert series in Fayetteville, New Bern, Southern Pines and Wilmington?as well as individual concerts in many other North Carolina communities throughout the year?and conducts one of the most extensive education programs of any U.S. orchestra.
Concert/Event Listing:
North Carolina Symphony
Independence Day
Grant Llewellyn, Music Director
Paul Randall, trumpet
Sunday, July 1, 2012, 8pm
Festival Park, Fayetteville
Tuesday, July 3, 2012, 8:30pm
Lake Benson Park, Garner
Wednesday, July 4, 2012, 7:30pm
Booth Amphitheatre, Cary
Program Listing:
North Carolina Symphony
Independence Day
Grant Llewellyn, Music Director
July 1-4, 2012
The Star-Spangled Banner
John Stafford Smith/arr. Walter Damrosch/John Philip Sousa
Semper Fidelis March
John Philip Sousa
South Pacific: Symphonic Scenario
Richard Rodgers
American Eagle Waltz
Jacques Offenbach
Paul Randall, trumpet
Superman March
John Williams
Hymn to the Fallen from Saving Private Ryan
John Williams
Servicemen on Parade
Richard Hayman
Olympic Fanfare and Theme
John Williams
The Dam Busters March
Eric Coates
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1*
Edward Elgar
A Trumpeter?s Lullaby
Leroy Anderson
Paul Randall, trumpet
American Fantasie
Victor Herbert
Sing Along, America!
James Stephenson
*July 4 concert only
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