Thursday, July 4, 2025, 8 pm
Riverbend Music Center

Please note that fireworks will be to the right of the stage this year.

John Morris Russell, conductor
Joshua Henry, vocalist
The Steel Wheels, Americana Band
Jennifer Cherest, Soprano
The Studio for Dance

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Fanfare for American War Heroes — William Grant Still

The Star-Spangled Banner — John Stafford Smith

“Hoe-Down” from Rodeo — Aaron Copland

“Summertime” from Porgy and Bess — George Gershwin

Feeling Good — Anthony Newley / Leslie Bricusse

The Charleston — James P. Johnson

Scrape Me off the Ceiling — The Steel Wheels

Wait on You — The Steel Wheels

Baby Gone — The Steel Wheels

The Boy Scouts of America — John Philip Sousa

Intermission

God Bless America — Irving Berlin

“Dear Theodosia” from Hamilton — Lin-Manuel Miranda

“The Room Where it Happened” from Hamilton — Lin-Manuel Miranda

The House I Live In — Earl Robinson

“Impossible Dream (The Quest)” from Man of La Mancha — Mitch Leigh / Joe Darion

This Land is Your Land — Woody Guthrie

Armed Forces Salute — Various

Lyric for Strings — George Walker

America the Beautiful — Samuel A. Ward / Katharine Lee Bates

The Stars and Stripes Forever — John Philip Sousa

The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra is grateful to Pops Season Presenter PNC and Partner Sponsor HUB International. 

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is grateful for the support of the Louise Dieterle Nippert Musical Arts Fund of the Greenacres Foundation and the Nina Browne Parker Trust, and for the thousands of people who give generously to the ArtsWave Community Campaign, the region’s primary source for arts funding. This project was supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Music for Scrape Me off the Ceiling, Wait on You and Baby Gone provided by the Canton Symphony Orchestra, arranged by Kevin Martinez.