It seems we will get an early look at the new music director of the Lexington Philharmonic.

Scott Terrell. Photo by David Stephenson | LexGo.com.

According a release from Lexington’s Fourth of July Festival, Scott Terrell will have the baton for the Philharmonic’s annual patriotic concert at 8 p.m. July 3 on the steps of Transylvania University’s Old Morrison Hall. Terrell was named music director of the Philharmonic in April, after a more-than-two-year search for a successor to George Zack. Terrell will begin conducting his first season with the Philharmonic in September, but the patriotic concert will be his first appearance in one of the Philharmonic’s highest profile events.

The patriotic concert is one of the orchestra’s most popular public concerts, along with the annual Kentucky Christmas Chorus at Rupp Arena.

Patrons are encouraged to bring blankets and lawn chairs and arrive early to enjoy pre-concert entertainment including the Young at Heart Jazz Band, which will begin playing at 5:30 p.m. in Gratz Park, across from Old Morrison, and an instrument petting zoo for children.

Admission is free.