>>Tchaikovsky Overture 1812
I’ve got several different recordings of that. You gotta love a guy who thought to use a cannon as a musical instrument!
“You gotta love a guy who thought to use a cannon as a musical instrument!”
That’s a rog!
“You gotta love a guy who thought to use a cannon as a musical instrument!”
That’s a rog!
Well, there's also Pachelbel's Canon.
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The Latvian conductor Mariss Jansons led a New Year's Eve concert of the Vienna Philharmonic around a decade ago. At the end of the last Strauss piece, a Galop if memory serves, there was a grace note ending the piece. This was provided not by an instrumentalist, but rather by the conductor, who pulled a pistol from his pocket, pointed it in the air, and fired it--in perfect time.
A fond memory was my experience of hearing the Vienna Symphony in that same hall (The Grosser Salle at the Musikverein) in a concert led by (IIRC!) Yevgeny Svetlanov. It held Rimsky-Korsakov's Antar Symphony and Brahms' First.
While waiting in line, a distinguished looking German-speaking (likely Viennese) gentleman walked up the line offering a ticket. So I paid him some reasonable number of Austrian Schillings and got a seat in the balcony, third row center.
During my brief stay, I was able to pay respects at the statue of Beethoven and the (Johann II) Strauss memorial. Couldn't find Mozart's grave though.
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