From the North Carolina Symphony

The North Carolina Symphony will give a free outdoor concert Sunday, June 15, at 7:30 p.m., at Festival Park in Washington. Symphony Resident Conductor William Henry Curry will lead the orchestra in “Concerts in Your Community: Beethoven’s Fifth.” In the event of inclement weather, the concert will be held at Washington High School.

Concert-goers can sit back and enjoy the early summer evening, accompanied by stirring music from Beethoven’s immortal work that features the most famous beginning in all of classical music, as well as the perfectly named “Outdoor Overture” from Aaron Copland, and “Sketches from Pinehurst,” written by the Symphony’s own Terry Mizesko in honor of the 2005 U.S. Open, and programmed this summer to mark two U.S. Opens taking in June in Pinehurst.

The performance is part of the Symphony’s summer “Concerts in Your Community,” free concerts presented throughout the state. Festival Park is located at 119 East Water Street.

Presenting Sponsor for the concert is PotashCorp. Media partner is Public Radio East. The statewide partner of the North Carolina Symphony is Duke Energy.

About the North Carolina Symphony

Founded in 1932 and subsequently made an entity of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, the North Carolina Symphony employs 66 professional musicians under the artistic leadership of Music Director and Conductor Grant Llewellyn and Resident Conductor William Henry Curry. Every year, this orchestra performs over 175 concerts in more than 50 North Carolina counties, with some 60 of those concerts offered in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill metropolitan area.

The Symphony boasts two spectacular home venues: Meymandi Concert Hall at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh and Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, N.C. The Symphony also travels 18,000 miles each year to present concert series in Fayetteville, New Bern, Southern Pines and Wilmington; individual concerts in communities across the state; and one of the most extensive education programs of any U.S. orchestra. For more information, visit the North Carolina Symphony website at www.ncsymphony.org or call toll free 877-627-6724.