The program:

National Anthem (arr. Robert Russell Bennett)
America, the Beautiful (arr. Carmen Dragon)
George Washington Bicentennial March (John Philip Sousa)
American Civil War Fantasy (Jerry Bilik)

George M Cohan Medley (Cohan, Two by Fours Tuba Quartet)
Root Beer Barrel Polka (Two by Fours)

Black Horse Troop March (Sousa)
Yankee Doodle (arr Morton Gould)
On the Quarterdeck March (Alford)
Stars and Bars Concert March (Robert Jager)

We had good crowd out at the band shell.

And yes, my very favorite memories of the Fourth come from several years of spending the day and evening at the Esplanade Park, waiting for the Pops concert and the finale with howitzers over the Charles.

Even if I lived there, I fear, I would not be going anymore – too old and stiff to hang out all day waiting. But while I could – and I lived close enough to walk home or take the streetcar, not have to find a place to park a car and brave the traffic going home – it was absolutely fabulous.
Today i will be on the patio, except while the Pops is on (if I can find it on tv).

Because life is a just one big musical to some, here’s James Cagney doing Yankee Doodle Dandy.