Treat For Stiers Fans

From Newport Newstimes

BAY Music Association and Mo's Restaurants will again sponsor a free July 4th concert of patriotic and popular music performed by the Newport Symphony Orchestra, conducted this year by David Ogden Stiers (schedule permitting). The concert will be at 4 p.m. Monday, July 4 at the Newport Performing Arts Center.

The program for the concert will include Sousa marches, Charles Ives' "Variations on America," Morton Gould's "American Salute," and Aaron Copland's "A Lincoln Portrait," to be narrated by Stiers.

Although the event is free, tickets must be reserved at the PAC box office. Reservations can be made beginning June 1 by calling 265-ARTS. Tickets are for reserved seating, and are limited to five per person. All tickets will be held at the box office until the afternoon of the concert, and must be picked up there between 1 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. on July 4. Tickets not claimed by 3:45 will be given away to those on a waiting list. It is suggested that ticket reservations be made as soon as possible, as seating is limited.