1812 Overture w/ LIVE CANNON BLASTS, dedicated to Arthur Fiedler of the Boston Pops

Thank you for posting this. I was blessed to attend a performance by The Boston Pops under the direction of Arthur Fiedler on July 4th 1978 or 79 Ithink - I went by myself a year after my parents had gone with my sister Pam who had been diagnosed with a brain tumor in 1976 and she was getting a shunt placed to drain fluid off her brain that bicentennial year - and when I couldn’t go with my family a year after she started treatment for her brain tumor, because I had to work, the following year I did go, by myself and I stood on a ledge of a pole and cried my way through this amazing performance - I cried - because I love my country, I loved growing up in Ludlow MA and going to school in Boston- and will be forever grateful for the one time I saw Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. Miss you mom, dad and Pam. See you in heaven someday I hope.

Excellence, traditional, standards. Thank you Maestro Lockhart and the renown Pops for this annual concert on the esplanade. What a privilege.

That made me cry. What a fabulous rendition and what a fabulous job by all. Bravo!

God bless Maestro Fiedler’s soul. I am sad tonight, … no… more liked broken-hearted that I cannot be home in Boston tonight to see the Pops and the fireworks live .. is been a few years that I have not been able to be near home or in my hometown of Newburyport because of my mothers health and Covid lockdowns etc. But finding this wonderful dedication of the 1812 Overture to a great BOSTON music legend I met when I was in my 20s (thanks to my mothers spunk in sneaking us into the reception after the Pops played at the Lowell auditorium. She walked by the doorway after the concert a couple of times, looking in to survey the situation. Eventually she said to me and her friend Mary whatever I do, just follow me. On the third pass by the door to the reception, she took a quick right …we both followed. She went straight to the champagne fountain filled up champagne flute and we both did the same. Three times in a row. We filled the champagne flute and downed that delicious bubbly beverage before she was able to calm down and realize that we were actually in the party. Before it was over, we made our way towards our hero. We actually ended up having a private audience with maestro Fiedler. As he sipped on his Turkey, my mother told him the story of how when my dad and her had first married, they lived in an apartment on Park Drive behind Fenway Park, where the Red Sox play she had tickets to go to the Pops on a regular basis, but that particular week she was due to give birth to me her first child, and only child, but told my dad Paul that she was going to go to the concert anyway because she felt fine. Maestro Fiedler looked at her and said, and so Josephine what happened was she born right afterwards? To which my mother replied “no, she was three weeks late” to which I added” I’ve been catching up ever since!” We all had a good laugh, he gave us trays of food to take home, and a bouquet of roses that had been given to him, it was a very memorable experience and now here I am my mom passed a little over a year ago at 99 years old here in Florida and I am ready to go home with her ashes and lay her to rest south of Boston. Meanwhile here I sit on tye beach at Lake Worth, Florida under the almost full moon, watching the Pops perform one of my favorite pieces of music. I miss New England, miss Boston and my home in Newburyport and can’t wait to get my suitcases, food, and paperwork packed up and point my SUV towards New England. My birthday is in two days and I can’t wait to get the heck out of South Florida for a while. I need to get back to nature I’m back to my Plum Island beach and my family. God bless you, Mr. Fiedler and Mom & Dad I’m sure you are all having a conversation over some wild turkey and champagne right about now watching me on the beach …crying and singing, along with the Pops choir as the howitzers explode along the banks of the Charles river. “Cuz I Love that Dirty Water. . Boston your my home!!!” As the lyrics of that 1965 song by the Standells goes. Happy Independence Day to all my fellow Bostonians and the rest of America. 🇺🇸💥👍 Time to go home and get something to eat and to light some sparklers in honor of my dad The moonlight has been spectacular.

“What instrument do you play?” “A howitzer.” “Oh, is that brass, string, or woodwinds?” “Brass. Very heavy brass.”

One of the most beautiful things I've ever heard

What a moment at The Esplanade! perfect performance by all of a masterpiece. Brought me to tears as it should.

I enjoyed this very much. Thank you for posting. 🎆🎇🎆🎇

Every note of this bounced off my head, fantastic performance !

Always an awesome delight to hear. And this is the best Pops performance yet. Very lively. Bravvo.

Tears of joy from a cynical music lover. Then again, I do love 1812.

I LIKE 👍 THE 1812 OVERTURE IS MY FAVORITE AT THE END OF THE 4TH OF JULY. WITH THE CANNONS AND THE RINGING OF THE BELLS 🔔 🎶.

Always great to have the entire score.....

Wow. One od best concert of 1812

Cannons are great. Having a choir sing the hymn is even better! (Even if it's not in Church Slavonic).

I Love This Classical Song 1812 Overture 🎶🎵🎻 My Favorite 💙🤍❤

Nothing is better than 1812 overture with Russian choir and cannon. I found this is the best and most complete live version. PERFEKT. Tenor vioce at 10.47 sounds amazing.

People are saying that "Tchaikovsky: haha cannon go boom" but it was more like "Tchaikovsky: why the fuck are there artillery in my orchestra"

My dad was a baritone in our Russian Orthodox Church and one day sat with me and explained what each part meant. The first part was the Devine liturgy which began our service. Later you hear sounds of the invading French army, then their canons. I won’t have enough time to tell it all, but the sounds of church bells express the joy of the Russian people when the French retreat. Then I married an Irish American girl in her cathedral… and I was suddenly a Russian Episcopalian. This is the greatest 1812 Overture I have ever heard.

Simply AMAZING!