The July 4 fireworks in Oak Ridge were at Alvin K. Bissell Park. (Photos by Fred O’Hara)
The annual Independence Day celebration and fireworks display in Oak Ridge was Friday, July 4, at Alvin K. Bissell Park. The festivities started at 7:30 p.m. with a free concert by the Oak Ridge Community Band, and they ended with the fireworks display at 10 p.m.
It was the 70th anniversary of the Community Band’s first concert held on July 4, 1944.
Here are pictures by Fred O’Hara.
The Independence Day celebration opened with a 70th anniversary concert by the Oak Ridge Community Band.
Oak Ridge Mayor Tom Beehan shows off his batting style as the Community Band plays “The National Game” by John Philip Sousa. The piece was premiered in Paris by The Sousa Band on the fourth of July 1900. Sousa wrote the piece to have four “baseball bat solos.”
Members of the clarinet section were featured in the Community Band’s
concert as they played “Clarinet Candy.”
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