How I spent my Fourth of July

Lew · Post by **Lew** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:47 am

This year, like every year, I was at Dogwood Dell in Richmond with the Richmond Concert Band playing our typical July 4 concert. This year someone apparently taped at least part of the concert and put it up on YouTube. Here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgOyl0E_ ... re=related" target="_blank" target="_blank

We are told that Richmond is the only venue where there is a Carrillon, live canon fire, and fireworks all on the same site for the 1812 on July 4th. Apparently even in Boston they have to pipe in the bells, they are not on the same site. In any case, even though we are clearly amateurs, it's fun to play there each yar.

tofu · Post by **tofu** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:57 pm

TubaBob · Post by **TubaBob** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:12 pm

And the crowd went crazy.

Well done!

sloan · Post by **sloan** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:48 am

So...something I've never understood: why is the 1812 Overture considered appropriate 4th of July music?

Dean E · Post by **Dean E** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:18 am

Thrilling. How did you like performing?

I wonder how the Russian resistance to Napoleon's invasion got translated into a US patriotic song? At 2:09 someone was nervous and got the jump on "God Save The Czar" line. Thanks for posting the link.

tofu · Post by **tofu** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:13 am

sloan · Post by **sloan** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:34 am

tofu wrote:
sloan wrote:So...something I've never understood: why is the 1812 Overture considered appropriate 4th of July music?

A piece of music about a battle that took place in Russia over 200 years ago

Did you use a Time Machine to quote this piece of "analysis"?

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