West Lawn Story on the Fourth

Title: West Lawn Story on the Fourth
Creator: Mark Adamo
Date: 7/5/1993
Description: Since 1979, the National Symphony Orchestra has played a concert, called "A Capitol Fourth," on the west front of the Capitol, facing the National Mall. Fireworks are also launched from near the Washington Monument. This article describes the 1993 concert which included musicians such as Mary Chapin Carpenter, Rita Moreno, and Johnny Cash. The concert concluded, per tradition, with the Symphony playing marches with the Marine Corps Band.
Source: The Washington Post.
Coverage: 1980-1999
Text: The NSO's Festive Mix of Broadway and Country
By Mark AdamoSpecial to The Washington Post
There they were, 400,000 strong: sweating, drinking, waving--or wearing--the american flag. The crowd on the Capitol's West Lawn was a living demonstration of the right to peaceable assembly at last night's star-studded Capitol Fourth Concert with guest conductor Erich Kunzel and the National Symphony Orchestra....
Original Format: newspaper article