1812 Overture w/ LIVE CANNON BLASTS, dedicated to Arthur Fiedler of the Boston Pops
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Happy 4th of July everyone! My favorite part of every Independence Day? The 1812 Overture played with synchronized LIVE CANNON BLASTS, here dedicated to the longtime conductor of the Boston Pops who started this grand tradition, Arthur Fiedler, by their current music director, Keith Lockhart.
My brief internet research suggests Arthur Fiedler started this annual tradition going back to at least 1974, and it was broadcast nationally for the bicentennial celebration in 1976. This TV broadcast on WBZ (a CBS affiliate) was in 2012, I believe.
Not sure if it is still true, but in some years the signaler who gives the instruction for the cannons to fire was Arthur Fiedler's son! A touching continuance of this great tradition.
![Boston Pops: "1812 Overture" [ 2023.07.04 ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/vSSvKIfZZW4/mqdefault.jpg)
Excellence, traditional, standards. Thank you Maestro Lockhart and the renown Pops for this annual concert on the esplanade. What a privilege.
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.
2024 - so sorry for your losses. I do believe you will see them again someday. Thank you for sharing your story. . A neighbor in NH.
I was probably at the same concert and the previous ones for the previous few years. So sorry for your loss. 1977 my older sister was murdered in NH and the past two years I lost my parents. We both listen to this with bitter sweet feelings.
In 1976, when America celebrated the 200th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, I had the privilege of attending the Boston Pops concert on the Boston Esplanade. I can still remember Maestro Fiedler conducting the Pops and this piece with the cannons and fireworks exploding at the very end as the fireworks shot into the sky. Even though there were about 500,000 people on the Back Bay that night, you could pick out Fiedler's long white mane in the far-off distance. I and the woman I was dating then took the T from the North End (this was long before the modernization of that area) to the Esplanade starting a little after Noon because she and I both knew it would be crowded. I was 29 then, and have lived in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, among other places, but I still consider that evening to be one of the great experiences of my life on such an important anniversary for our Nation, a day and celebration that I recount to others every chance I get.
Wow. You were in the right place at the right time and it became a lifelong memorable event. I hope some day I will be as fortunate.
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.
Hope you get back to your beloved city.
@@lynngregory393 thanks so much my friend… happy Independence Day to you!
Tradition, standards , excellence. Thank you Marstro Lockhart and The renown Pops. What a privilege to see.
Happy water is flowing after reading this.
“What instrument do you play?”
“A howitzer.”
“Oh, is that brass, string, or woodwinds?”
“Brass. Very heavy brass.”
Steel you might even say…
a shortened version without recapitulation, leading directly to the coda…
where did the performance take place ?
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.
I'm reminded of Calvin's take on this: "And they play this in crowded concert halls? And I thought classical music was boring!"
Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes?.
Yes, indeed!
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 🔔 🎶.
I personally like the finale of the 1812 overture, but I ABSOLUTELY love the entire song. It's very beautiful
One of the most beautiful things I've ever heard
I always sayd to my relatives to play this song in my funeral !! Maybe I Will wake up from the cofin 😯
Tears of joy from a cynical music lover.
Then again, I do love 1812.
Great video of a wonderful performance. Sometimes just listening to music you don’t think of the human beings performing it. This video is so great because you see it all. The solos, the symbol crashes, the chorus, the thoughtful decor and the exuberant energy of the conductor. Amazing.
Keep in mind it was a live broadcast so they really are super well rehearsed, with the camera people already aiming at the performers they know are coming up next. It's not like a movie or TV show where they can pause, check their notes, re-aim the cameras, and shout "And, Action"!
Always an awesome delight to hear. And this is the best Pops performance yet. Very lively. Bravvo.
Cannons are great. Having a choir sing the hymn is even better! (Even if it's not in Church Slavonic).
For TV broadcast they had to tame down the cannon blasts or it would blow out little speakers on small TVs. In person these blasts are more impactful and a real crowd pleaser which gets them going! Not sure if it is still true, but in some years the signaler who gives the instruction for the cannons to fire was Arthur Fiedler's son! A touching continuance of this great tradition.
@@m.zillch3841 As a side note, one year they did have M109 Paladin artillery participating, although I haven't been able to find video here on RUclips of them.
People are saying that "Tchaikovsky: haha cannon go boom" but it was more like "Tchaikovsky: why the fuck are there artillery in my orchestra"
"I didn't order a fucking howitzer, I ordered a cannon, not a howitzer."
I would not dare to investigate the mind of a Genius , but I dont believe he would not let the right instructions to the people of the Future
That made me cry. What a fabulous rendition and what a fabulous job by all. Bravo!
Every note of this bounced off my head, fantastic performance !
Es mi favorita, con ésta orquesta ❤
for youtube to be dropping ads in the middle of this is a crime against humanity!!!!!!
I remember when signing up here they asked me if I would allow ads to be placed on my videos and I said ABSOLUTELY NO.
@@m.zillch3841 I remember when it was as simple as having ad blocker. Now you have to pay them to not throw ads in our face. Advertising is the only industry in the world that people would pay not to see. Which begs the question: why is it such a big industry if it is so despised?
Wow , I thought It was only me that regarded this as a unforgiveble sin
Always great to have the entire score.....
I enjoyed this very much. Thank you for posting. 🎆🎇🎆🎇
Thanks
What a moment at The Esplanade! perfect performance by all of a masterpiece. Brought me to tears as it should.
This song always brings me to tears, I’m glad I’m not the only one
That puts tears in my eyes.
Great video of a wonderful performance.
I have this set up on my home hifi with some Estes model rocket igniters and 12ga shot shells. Super immersive.
Glitch here glitch there… ahhhshadup and enjoy this gorgeous piece!
Hello. I am Russian. Music is an amazing thing. It's hard for me to find words for this comment. Damn. Tchaikovsky dedicated this overture to the victory of Russia in the great war, this is the glorious history of my country. No matter how hard it is, we will never give up.
Stop complaining :)) For example, I couldn’t resist laughing homerically. God, this Fiedler is one of the best Russian residents ;) It was necessary to troll the Americans like this and for so long - since 1974, on the Independence Day of the United States, to play a melody glorifying the power of Russian weapons throughout the country. ;)) Hoover was probably spinning in his grave :))) In general, let's better drink to the victory. For OUR victory (if you still remember WHERE these words come from ;)) If you forgot, then watch the movie "The Exploit of a Scout") And the Yankees, as always, are mugs :)))
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.
Wow. One od best concert of 1812
As a piccolo player of course I love Stars and Stripes Forever, but there is just something about something going boom in 1812 Overture this hits differently.
I Love This Classical Song
1812 Overture 🎶🎵🎻
My Favorite 💙🤍❤
IT'S A PIECE
I love how at some point Tchaikovsky was writing this and was like “zis is missing something. I know vat zis needs! Canons!” (I know I just spelled a German accent, I can’t think a Russian one rn)
Lots of rain and thunderstorms this year (2023) so for people feeling they missed out, don't feel TOO bad: this year's show was probably a better year to miss than most. :) www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/boston-4th-of-july-esplanade-thunderstorms-evacuation-boston-pops-fireworks/
105 mm Howitzers
Field Artillery
"King of Battle"
Happy 4th of July everyone!!! From San Antonio, TX!!! Where is everyone else from celebrating this 4th of July?? 😀
I used to watch this in the 90's and the church bells (or maybe it was just one Boston church) use to peal when the finale began. I wonder if they still do that.
8:35 my favorite part this where the cannons/fireworks/churchbells start.
Yes, but the fun is hearing it slowly build up to that point.
@@m.zillch3841 agree.
Same.
Simply AMAZING!
Magnificent!
god I love being from Massachusetts
Amazing !!!
Thank god this is back on cable. CBS totally disgraced this show with their condensed show of only one hour compared to 3 on A&E.
I love this!
Well we make the Artillery folks work outs, lol! Actually no, this is outdoors, at the Boston Massachusetts Hatch Shell, next to the Charles River. Tho folks in apartments across the street get a l smoke 🤣😁! Hello from (almost Boston, l) Salem Massachusetts, US!
Hello Salem!
Love my City ❤.
"I play the 105mm howitzer... What do you play?"
Um, triangle?
¡Maravilloso, muy emocionante!
could anyone provide the lyrics ?
Google Russian imperial anthem in 1812 overture
@@justname9252 thank you for referring !
Awesome; can you upload S&SF from last night as well? I was searching for it but this seems to be the only quality recap upload from last night right now on YT.
Oh wait, this 1812 Overture wasn't 2023 from yesterday?
@@paulcosta8297 Yes, as I mentioned in the notes where I had more room to type, this was recorded this from a live WBZ TV broadcast back in 2012, according to the file's date. Sorry if I confused people by posting it a few hours before this year's July 4th performance (which I hear was wet and soggy from thunderstorms). Thank you for describing the content as "quality", by the way.
Bells from The Church of the Advent was missing? Too bad, it would have been a complete version of this work.
Bells 10:01
Full version because this part suddenly cuts.
This part 10:53.
The chorus got cut
Sorry about the glitch. I recorded this as a live TV braodcast and that's how my recording came out. Re-uploading it to RUclips would have the same glitch.
Total pain Moment😭😭😭💔💔
I had to come here to be sure I was hearing an interpolation of 1812 on Beyoncé’s American Requiem. Clever girl.
I gotta have more howitzer!
My favorite musical instrument!
3:39 is my favorite.
Thank you Kieth ❤
To Keith Of the Boston Pops please go back to giving us our Fourth July at the Esplanade And put it back on one of our own net works I could not watch the Boston at all it was not on television I had to watch that tribute on You Tube how sad please be live next year on our own networks thank you ❤️
Marvellous, but what's that little glitch at 10.54? If it's a change from one camera to the other more effort should have been made to match the sound up in this of all pieces.
This event was a live TV broadcast I recorded right as it happened with no possibility to "rewind and restart" if an error occurred and I don't know what caused the brief glitch, sorry. It also can't be edited out and fixed in post because there was no alternate feed to cut to when the brief glitch occurs. Maybe a rain cloud passing by disrupted the transmission beam? Who knows. . . . Speaking of glitches, have you ever seen these exact same Boston news crews film the runners up close and personal during the Boston Marathons? Also, FILLED with stuttering, frozen images, and glitches. Oh well.
@@m.zillch3841 The wonders of modern technology! Thanks for putting up that marvellous recording though.
Why its overture is so popular in U.S. ecpecially on July 4th? It related to war between Russia and Napoleonic France, but no relation to independence of U.S.?
July the 4th is our celebration of Independence from England due to success at war. Tchaikovsky's overture was also a celebration of success at war. End of story.
@@m.zillch3841 But it is another victory in another war... What's connection here? It's Russian composer, not American...
@@nagatinskymost In the US we play music composed and written by people from all countries and about all events.
Yeah this is my point also, I find it extremely strange
I once played a song on my stereo written by the Beatles and get this: I'm not even British!
Look at the size of the crowd. I estimate 200K.
Tchaikovsky's introduction with just low strings is a poetic evocation of Mother Russia, which adding a chorus destroys.
WOW !!!!
Wonderful concert! But -- I can't believe there are ads on it! Right while the orchestra is playing, 2 ads. What a travesty. It ruined the experience. 😪😠
2 ads at different times. Interrupted twice.
Their business model seems to have changed unfortunately. Unless you buy their premium service it's inescapable to the best of my knowledge. My channel is 100% non-monetized BY ME, just so you know, and every single question they pose to me about setting up my channel regardingcommercials I respond "none".
do you have more of last night's concert you can post...specifically the Ragtime and Mandy Gonzalez segments? would be appreciated
Sorry, but I decided to post a concisely worded, one-line title rather than a full, detailed description. Had I used a more detailed title it might have been: "WBZ TV broadcast of The 1812 Overture with LIVE CANNON BLASTS, dedicated to longtime Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler by their current music director, Keith Lockhart, recorded in 2012, I believe." These added details exist in the notes I provided below the video however, where I didn't have a limited space to type in. I have no additional footage from any other performers or years. Sorry.
Hi. I guess you’ve given up? Darn it I just found your channel and it’s the best BUT I completely get why you weren’t popular after watching the AR turntable video in fact and this is worrying someone like Fremmer might justify hiring a “Hit-man” just for the embarrassment he may have felt watching it 🙂. Brilliant absolutely brilliant and the hifi community is much poorer (pun intended) for your absence!
I'm still around. I just don't post frequently.
Good to know. I wish more ppl especial so called influencers on yt would watch your channel!@@m.zillch3841
C'est bon.
The cannons were waaay off tempo in the second part, shame.
10:55
Keith Lockhart
Praise the Lord!
В оригинале хор поёт "боже царя храни"😊
I don't understand why they play a piece about Russia and France on US independence day, and it is a widespread thing. That does not make sense to me at all.
buena interpretación pero las campanas ni se oyeron ni los cañones HAAAaaa no llegaron al climax
An annual performance of a piece of music by a great Russian composer Tchaikovsky glorifying the might of Russia following the victory of the Russian Army over Napoleon - and performed on the 4th of July - truly an example of a Freudian slip)
If the Russians had not defeated the French, there would have been no USA..
Music is music. It knows no borders and is beholden to nobody. Everyone plays 1812, so respectfully stop being a snowflake and just enjoy the music.
Also it's celebrating pre-soviet Russia. Which is not the same as the modern Russia. Conflating the two is just ignorant.
@@shane4371Lol who cares? The west has been doing the same also what makes Russia the bad guy all of a sudden??
I never hear the vocal version, and much more is the pity!
ah, yes, yes, i see, because of that special military operation thingy no one's singing in Russian now... Tchaikovsky is turning in his grave
Bozhe Tsarya Krajin!!
Amerykanie ukradli tę melodię razem z bardzo wieloma rzeczami z całego swiata. W swojej ignorancji i nieuctwie zrobili z tego kawałek w sam raz do grania i pokazywania w Disneylandzie. Żenada.
Shouldn't you be happy that this piece gained the recognition it deserved?
Hardest cope ever
It had already gained that recognition before the US "stole" the piece. Typical American arrogance. @@LadyVenus125
@@davidlauder-qi5zv How did the U.S steal that piece? They might have popularized it. Also I'm not American, so stop guessing random people's ethnicities.
@@LadyVenus125 na pewno nie zasługiwał na jarmarczne wykonanie jakie nam tu prezentują
最後の最後で、ラッパのハイベーを出す盛り上がりの所がブツッと切れていますね。それまでご機嫌にアメリカンな1812年を聞いていたのに。残念。
悪天候の中で行われたテレビ放送の録画でした。
I am probably in the minority here, but I absolutely hate when they ruin 1812 Overture with singing...
Some renditions I agree it hurts the presentation. In this performance, I respectfully disagree; choir delivered.
와! 진짜 대포를 가져와서 쏘네!
9:10
JCAJKOVSKY RUSSIA
Audio is not good.
BROVO
Why can we not hear this on ClassicFM any more