Summer Fun & Festivities: A Charlotte Tradition!

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Summer Pops 2008 at Symphony Park
June 29
Fifth Third Bank’s Celebrate America July 3

Note: Artists and repertoire subject to change.

Get ready for the Charlotte Symphony’s annual Summer Pops Picnic Contest!  Prizes will be awarded in three categories: Most Festive Picnic, Most Patriotic Picnic, and Most Appetizing Picnic. Picnics will be judged at 7 p.m. during the prelude performance on Sunday, June 29th at Symphony Park, SouthPark.

SYMPHONIC DANCES
Albert-George Schram, conducting

Sun     Jun 29	Symphony Park at SouthPark  – 8:15pm Prelude at 7:00pm with TBA
HANSON	Maypole Dances from Merry Mount
GERSHWIN/arr. Bennett	Porgy and Bess
BARBER	Adagio for Strings
LOESSER/arr. Custer	Guys and Dolls
BERNSTEIN	Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
RODGERS	Carousel Waltz from Carousel

CELEBRATE AMERICA
Sponsored by Fifth Third Bank
Albert-George Schram, conducting

Thr      Jul 3	Symphony Park at SouthPark  – 8:15pm Prelude at 7:00pm
SMITH/arr. Tyzik	The Star-Spangled Banner
SOUSA	Liberty Bell March
ARNAUD/John WILLIAMS	Bugler’s Dream/Olympic Fanfare
SHOSTAKOVICH	Festive Overture
BRAHMS/arr. Schmeling	Hungarian Dance No. 5
SLATKIN	Carmen’s Hoe Down
Traditional	Armed Forces Salute
Arr. Hermann	George M. Cohan Salute
BERLIN/arr. Healy	A Tribute to Irving Berlin
arr. Healy	Saints!!!
WARD/ arr. D’Angelo	America the Beautiful

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