About This Concert
Join your Brevard Symphony Orchestra on July 4th for our free annual Symphony Under the Stars! Bring a chair or blanket and watch the orchestra perform patriotic favorites. At 9:15, a fireworks display will join the orchestra over the river. Our emcee again this year is Mindy from Mindy & Company on Lite Rock 99.3.
Tickets to our VIP Red Hot & Boomin’ BBQ are on sale now! Tickets are $80 and include an indoor BBQ dinner, dessert, reserved concert seating, and parking close to the Cocoa Civic Center. If you a BSO season ticketholder, tickets are $65. Secure your VIP tickets here!
As of 7/1/25, we and the City of Cocoa are closely monitoring the weather of this week’s concert. Currently, the concert and VIP BBQ will proceed as planned. As we get closer to the concert and the day of, please continually check our website, BSO’s Facebook and Instagram, and the City of Cocoa Government Facebook page.
The Program
John Stafford Smith – The Star Spangled Banner
John Philip Sousa – The Stars and Stripes Forever – Barbara Furtney, guest conductor
arr. Marcos Barilari – U.S. Armed Forces Medley
John Philip Sousa – The Washington Post March
George M. Cohan/arr. Wendel – A George M. Cohan Overture
Lee Greenwood/arr. Lowden – God Bless the U.S.A
Lalo Schifrin/arr. Custer – Mission: Impossible Theme
John Powell/arr. O’Loughlin – How to Train Your Dragon
John Williams – Superman March
Irving Berlin/arr. Ades – God Bless America
– Intermission –
Edwin Bagley – National Emblem March
Samuel Ward/arr. Reed – America the Beautiful
John Philip Sousa – The Liberty Bell March
John Williams –Star Wars Main Title
John Philip Sousa – Hands Across the Sea March
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – 1812 Overture – Finale
John Philip Sousa – The Stars and Stripes Forever (reprise)
Thank You to Our Sponsors!
Frances Howard
Marilyn Kitchel
Dr. Nancy Johnson & Arthur T. Fee Jr.
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