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 ...

One of our more bizarre traditions is the playing of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” on the Fourth of July. The practice started in 1974, when Arthur Fiedler, the locally beloved maestro of the Boston ...

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 ...

The Boston Pops orchestra performed the “1812 Overture” by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky on the Fourth of July as a drone show displayed symbols of American history.

When you’re planning an orchestral concert to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812, you have one problem. The most famous piece of music about the year 1812 has nothing to do with North ...

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 ...

For the first time in the 22-year history of the Classic FM Hall of Fame, Tchaikovsky's cannon-fuelled epic has reached the No.1 spot. Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending falls to No.3 After four ...

Bojan Bujic on the Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra’s decision to remove the Russian composer’s work from its programme The cannon effects in Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture – a bombastic adornment to a ...

Tchaikovsky’s militaristic bombast has knocked Vaughan Williams’s bucolic birdsong off the top of the Classic FM charts, which may say something about our national mindset Classic FM listeners have ...

On July 4, millions of Americans celebrate Independence Day by watching fireworks synced to patriotic and bombastic music. But this year, a favorite from the fireworks soundtrack may have ironic ...

CANADA and the United States started the new year by firing cannons at each other across the Niagara river, which separates the province of Ontario from the state of New York, leaving a whiff of ...