North Carolina Symphony Celebrates Independence Day in ...

?Good, Old-Fashioned Salute to the Red, White and Blue

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The North Carolina Symphony invites Wilmington residents to beat the summer heat and join the orchestra inside Kenan Auditorium to celebrate our nation?s 236th birthday. Music Director Grant Llewellyn leads the Symphony in ?Stars and Stripes,? featuring patriotic highlights and symphonic favorites to honor the USA right before its birthday.

The concert takes place at Kenan Auditorium on the UNC-Wilmington campus, Monday, July 2 at 7:30 p.m. The performance marks Music Director Grant Llewellyn first Independence Day performance in Wilmington.

Llewellyn last conducted an Independence Day concert in 2008, and that audience 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!

Tickets for the performance are just $22, with $10 tickets for students. They are available online at the North Carolina Symphony?s website, www.ncsymphony.org, or by calling the Symphony Box Office at 919.733.2750 or toll free 877.627.6724.

Kenan Auditorium is located at 601 S. College Road in Wilmington. The Symphony?s statewide partner is Progress Energy.

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 Curry and 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

Stars and Stripes

Grant Llewellyn, Music Director

Paul Randall, trumpet

Monday, July 2, 2012, 7:30pm

Kenan Auditorium, UNC-Wilmington, Wilmington

Program Listing:

North Carolina Symphony

Stars and Stripes

Grant Llewellyn, Music Director

July 2, 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

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