Colorado’s Fort Collins Symphony will perform on stage for the first time since the pandemic began with a July 4 concert of patriotic music at Holiday Twin Drive-In movie theater in Fort Collins. Normally, the orchestra performs its free Independence Day concert in City Park before an audience of thousands. Music Director Wes Kenney will conduct this year’s concert, which will feature 44 musicians performing a 90-minute program that will include “Stars and Stripes,” “The Armed Forces Salute,” and “America the Beautiful”; John Williams’s “The People’s House” from the movie Lincoln and “Superman March” from Superman; and music from Bernstein’s West Side Story. The orchestra will perform two works by contemporary American composers of color: The Star Spangled Banner arranged in the Key of G by Fort Collins-based Ethan Boxley and Voices Shouting Out by Nkeiru Okoye. The evening will also include simulated fireworks and a screening of Ghostbusters.
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