2024 INDEPENDENCE DAY WEEKEND CONCERT
YOU ARE INVITED!
Independence Day Celebration Concert with music by the Charleston Symphony.
The City of Charleston and the CSO are thrilled to continue its celebration of the arts with a special free-to-attend Independence Day concert at “The Joe” – home of the Charleston RiverDogs. Experience a captivating evening under the stars with your Charleston Symphony. Enjoy a delightful blend of patriotic melodies, cherished classical favorites, special guest vocalists Saundra DeAthos and Harold Meers, and a spectacular fireworks show. FULL PROGRAM
Gates will open at 6pm with concessions available from the RiverDogs hospitality team.
The event is free to attend, but tickets must be reserved in advance: click here to reserve your seats!
Saundra DeAthos-Meers and Harold Meers, Vocals
Yuriy Bekker, Conductor
PROGRAM
John Stafford Smith, arr. Arthur Frackenpohl
Star Spangled Banner
John Williams
Olympic Fanfare and Theme (1984 Summer Olympics)
Leroy Anderson
Fiddle Faddle
Giacomo Puccini
“O Soave fanciulla” from La Boheme
John Williams
The Patriot
John Philip Sousa
Liberty Bell March
Aaron Copland
Variations on a Shaker Melody
arranged Johnnie Vinson
Disco Lives
Traditional, arr. Robert Lowden
Armed Forces Salute
Irving Berlin, arr. Earl Mays
God Bless America
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture (Overture Solennell)
John Philip Sousa
Stars and Stripes
