CSO thanks everyone for their patience during stormy July 4

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Editor’s note: The following is a message from Carmel Symphony Orchestra Music Director and Conductor David Commanday.

Thank you all for your understanding and support through a stormy Fourth of July.

Thank you to our musicians for your patience and understanding for gearing up to perform and waiting out the weather to see if we might catch a break. Sorry that it didn’t shift in our favor.

Thank you to our supporters and audience who also waited to see what might happen. We really were excited to perform our patriotic music celebrating our nation’s 250th Anniversary and know you share our disappointment that weather had other plans.

Thank you to the City of Carmel and Mayor Sue Finkam for your contribution to our organization. It is thanks to donors such as the City that we can support a fully professional orchestra.

Thank you to the City’s public safety officials and event organizers who were carefully monitoring the forecasts to keep us all safe.

Thank you Rotary Club of Carmel for organizing this massive annual two-day celebration of our nation’s freedom. We are always honored to be featured performers in your musical lineup each year. Your volunteers were hard at work long before any of us arrived and long after we left. We appreciate the effort, and know you are equally exasperated by weather conditions, which are out of your control.

We are all very lucky to live in a nation such as ours where we can gather safely as a community to celebrate our freedoms. We look forward to seeing you at one of our performances this season!