SFX (Independence Day)
 Saturday, July 3, 2004
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The Fourth of July ----- a time for fireworks (SFX) and beer (SFX) and the bikers are out today (HARLEY) and powerboats (SFX) and people having picnics with boomboxes (HIP HOP BASS, RAP VOCAL, SS GOTH CRIES) ---- that's somebody's niece ----- and did I mention fireworks (SFX) ----- and some people have come to Tanglewood to get away from all of that. They thought Yo-Yo Ma was playing today. (CELLO) That's why we got this big crowd. But we have a good show for you , including an opera-singing poodle (DOG SINGS "LA DONNA E MOBILE") and Brother Dominic, OSB and his electric blender (DUET, MAN AND BLENDER) and Wayne Newman who performs Ravel's Bolero on a bathtub toy (BOLERO) and Leonora and her singing horsefly (EL CAPITAN) plus Herschel LaMont the Jimmy Dorsey of the watering can (PEG O' MY HEART) and ...

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