Sometimes, birthdays are celebrated under unusual circumstances… and so it is for America this year.
Sometimes, birthdays are celebrated under unusual circumstances… and so it is for America this year.
The coronavirus pandemic is necessitating changes to various summer traditions, including ways in which the country typically marks the Fourth of July. Those include certain celebrations that not only draw big crowds to the actual sites under normal conditions, but also make for annual television events. The latter will remain the case on Saturday, July 4, but the given shows won’t be staged exactly as usual.
PBS’ May broadcast of the National Memorial Day Concert gave an idea of what to expect from “A Capitol Fourth” at 8 p.m., which is marking its 40th-anniversary presentation. Clips from past years’ editions might have been part of the special anyway … but they’ll now form a major portion of the show, as they did with the Memorial Day program from the same producers.
