Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular
Overview
Celebrate the Fourth of July with a festive outdoor performance perfect for summer! Led by conductor Edwin Outwater at Shoreline Amphitheatre, the SF Symphony fills the night air with the exhilarating music of Star Wars, chart-topping pop performed by renowned Broadway vocalist Capathia Jenkins and American Idol finalist Constantine Maroulis, selections from famous film scores, a salute to our Armed Forces, and more—culminating in a grand finale of amazing fireworks.
Artists
Conductor
Vocalist
Constantine Maroulis
Vocalist
José Francisco Salgado
Video Artist
Program
Festival Overture on the “The Star Spangled Banner”
Armed Forces Salute
The B-Sides, Broom of the System
“Fly Me to the Moon”
“Space Oddity”
“Rocket Man”
Introduction from Also sprach Zarathustra
Clair de lune
Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
“How High the Moon”
“I Feel the Earth Move”
“Skyfall”
Adventures on Earth from E.T. Orchestral Suite
Conductor
Recent appearances include the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Seattle Symphony, and the New World Symphony, as well as the Royal Philharmonic. He also served as a producer and musical advisor for the National Symphony Orchestra’s 50th Anniversary Concert at the Kennedy Center. In December 2022, he premiered A Christmas Gaiety at the Royal Albert Hall with Peaches Christ and the BBC Concert Orchestra, and returned in 2023.
Outwater has held a long association with San Francisco Symphony. He was appointed Resident Conductor and Wattis Foundation Music Director of the SF Symphony Youth Orchestra by Michael Tilson Thomas in 2001 and they have been friends and colleagues since.
Vocalist
An active concert artist, Ms. Jenkins has appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, National Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Utah Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Memphis Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Toledo Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Kansas City Symphony, San Diego Symphony, and Hong Kong Philharmonic. She made her San Francisco Symphony debut in July 2018. In 2011 she had the honor of performing in the Broadway Ambassadors to Cuba concert as part of the Festival De Teatro De La Habana.
Ms. Jenkins’s television credits include 30 Rock, The Practice, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and The Sopranos. She can be seen in the 2012 film Musical Chairs and can be heard on the soundtracks of Nine, Chicago, and Legally Blonde 2.
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