Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the 101st Field Artillery tested the cannons which will be used when the Boston Pops perform the 1812 Overture. They ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maybe you've heard them, pounding out the end of the famous piece of music. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. The "1812" Overture is one of the few pieces of music ...

Cannons fire during performance of '1812 Overture' in Naperville Cannons fire during performance of '1812 Overture' in Naperville Courtesy of Mike Davern Posted June 27, 2018 11:00 pm Submitted by ...

LENOX — What would Tanglewood on Parade be without the audience-favorite show-closer, Tchaikovsky’s triumphal, cranked-up “1812 Overture,” complete with live or pre-recorded cannons and a ...

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 ...

Members of the 101st Field Artillery tested the cannons which will be used when the Boston Pops perform the 1812 Overture. They planned to test the cannons earlier in the day, but couldn't because of ...