The Minnesota Orchestra's sold-out "Echoes of History" concert reopening the University of Minnesota's iconic Northrop Memorial Auditorium on Friday reprises more than Northrop's original Oct. 22, ...
Over the past 145 years, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” has been used to celebrate July 4th, sell cereal and astound movie audiences. It’s been sampled and spoofed, with popping balloons ...
Every Fourth of July, the Boston Pops concert on the Esplanade ends with a bang. And it isn't just fireworks. The high point of the 1812 Overture includes firing cannons. The piece is about Russia's ...
Somehow, over the past half-century and with hardly anyone noticing, the 19th century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has become as integral to the Fourth of July as George Washington and ...
A noisy, patriotic hullabaloo is Peter Ilich Tschaikowsky’s 1812 Overture. Depicting Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, it ends with a mixture of the Marseillaise, the Imperial Russian anthem and — so ...
Simultaneously last week in Boston and in Philadelphia batons flicked into the air, releasing the music that marked the overture to the 1936-37 season. In Boston, Beacon Hillers, not content merely to ...
Many people may remember when on July 4, 1974, The Boston Pops Orchestra, under the direction of Arthur Fiedler, gave Americans a rousing rendition of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, ...
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