TICKETS: $10 GENERAL ADMISSION, CHILDREN 16 & UNDER FREE
TICKETS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE BOX OFFICE ON SATURDAY BEGINNING AT 5:00 PM ... DOORS OPEN AT 6:15 PM
Enjoy an evening of patriotic favorites, show tunes, light classical and more with the Ocean State Summer Pops Orchestra! This 60-piece community orchestra is Rhode Island’s only pops orchestra. Bring the whole family for a night you won’t soon forget!
Because this unique group only performs during the summer months, the Orchestra is able to draw on the talents of musicians who may otherwise not be available. The Orchestra is proud to include among its ranks members of the Rhode Island Philharmonic and Philharmonic Community Orchestras, the American Band, the Rhode Island Wind Ensemble, as well as the Brown University, RIC, URI, and Fall River Symphony Orchestras, and other area groups.
The Orchestra is dedicated to education and entertainment through music, and delivers orchestral and educational programming throughout the communities of Greater Rhode Island.
Program selections for the evening's performance may include the following pieces:
Armed Forces Salute—arr. Lowden
Carmen Suite—Bizet
Chorale and March from “1812”—Tchaikovsky
Go West!—arr. Ford
Jerusalem—C. Hubert H. Parry
Selections from Les Miserables—Schonberg —arr. Lowden
National Emblem—E.E. Bagley, arr. A. Luck
Salute to the Cinema— arr. Carl Strommen
Slumber, My Darling—Foster, arr. Turner
The Star Spangled Banner—Smith, arr. Zaninelli
The Stars and Stripes Forever—Sousa, arr. Isaac
The Stars Wars Epic—Part II—Williams, arr. Smith
Co-sponsored by News/Talk 1380 WNRI since 1954