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Bits & Pieces: Music, lights, cannons

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It’ll be the annual Waterfront Concert on Sept. 3, as the Oregon Symphony’s music fills the space, and skies over Waterfront Park are lit up by fireworks following Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture,” complete with military cannons from the Oregon Army National Guard 218th Field Artillery.

It’s expected to be the largest Waterfront Concert ever (20,000 people), and it’ll be broadcast for the first time on All Classical Portland 89.9 FM. There’ll also be afternoon performances by musicians and youth orchestras.

The Waterfront Concert details: 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 3, symphony starts at 7 p.m., Waterfront Park, http://www.OrSymphony.org, free.

The concert kicks off the Symphony season, which includes in the first month: National Circus and Acrobats of the People’s Republic of China (Sept. 9); guitarist Pablo Villegas (Sept. 12), Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions (Sept. 17); The Music of Pink Floyd (Sept. 19); Patti LaBelle (Sept. 20); and percussionist Colin Currie (Sept. 26-28).


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