Though he loathed it, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture won him fans the world over and made him a household name. In 1962, a Don Draper-like advertising executive decided to market the oaty goodness of an ...

I applaud the decision of some U.S. orchestras to strike Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” from their July 4 concert programs. This musical composition is a tribute to the military might of Tsarist Russia ...

There’s no shame in writing music to orders from on high, but it’s going a bit far to say – as does Leonid Gakkiel in his booklet note for this new recording – that Tchaikovsky, a ‘monarchist’ whose ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The piece was originally named Festival Overture, The Year 1812 and Tchaikovsky wrote it in 1880 for ...

The famous 1812 Overture celebrates Russia’s “Patriotic War,” which is one of the origins of the Russian people’s perception that they are victims of the West. There is a growing movement among ...

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 ...

Confetti falls at the end of the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular in Boston on July 4, 2017. In 1974, the Boston Pops added cannons, church bells and fireworks to draw crowds to their Independence ...

Friday, August 26, 2022, 7 p.m. Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, 222 Marina Park Way, San Diego $40 - $90 “While this program has been a regular of San Diego Symphony summer seasons past, with the ongoing ...

For many U.S. symphony orchestras and their audiences, it's just not the Fourth of July without Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's rip-roaring, bell-ringing, cannon-firing "1812 Overture." Continuing its ...

Protesting the barbaric Ukraine invasion by banning Russian music from orchestral concerts is shortsighted, but replacing the “1812 Overture” on July 4th programs is long overdue. Tchaikovsky was born ...

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Some ensembles have decided not to perform Tchaikovsky’s overture, written as commemoration of Russia’s defeat of Napoleon’s army. By Javier C. Hernández With its earsplitting rounds of cannon fire ...