Vancouver Symphony Orchestra offers free outdoor concert with Symphony in the Park, July 13

With compositions ranging from those by Mozart to John Williams, the family-friendly event takes place at Deer Lake Park

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Symphony in the Park.

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra presents Symphony in the Park on July 13 at 7:30 pm at Deer Lake Park

BURNABY’S DEER LAKE Park will come alive with music when the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performs a free concert there on July 13.

Symphony in the Park 2024 features a lively program with selections from Georges Bizet’s Carmen: Suite No. 2, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 4, John Williams’s Star Wars: Suite for Orchestra and Harry Potter And The Sorcerer’s Stone: Suite For Orchestra, and Aaron Copland’s Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes.

Also on the program are Antonín Dvořák’s Carnival Overture Op. 92, Jean Sibelius’s Finlandia, Op. 26, Leonard Bernstein’s Candide: Overture, Bedřich Smetana’s The Bartered Bride: Dance Of The Comedians, and Elmer Bernstein’s The Magnificent Seven: Symphonic Suite.

Symphony in the Park has been going for more than 30 years. Audiences are encouraged to bring a blanket or chair to sit on and to arrive early for family activities and food trucks. The show lasts approximately two hours. Parking in the vicinity is limited.

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