Boston Conservatory professor Jan Swafford explains how a piece written to celebrate a Russian war victory became the theme song for American... The Co-Opting Of Tchaikovsky's '1812 Overture' Pyotr ...
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 ...