1812 Overture

You know, the movie about bowling? A classic movie.

[ excerpt from Richard Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries] There was this study in the New York City public schools [school bell rings] where they surveyed kids who said they didn't like classical music, but then when they were played a famous classical hit like Night on Bald Mountain [excerpt from Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain] or Hall of the Mountain King [excerpt from Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt, Hall of the Mountain King] those same kids said, "Yeah, I like that." You might say that classical music is only music of the classical masters, Mozart [excerpt from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik] Bach [excerpt from Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 6] but how about this? [ excerpt from John Williams' Jaws] [upbeat music] You might say that classical music is music played with a classical orchestral instrument, but what about this? [ excerpt from Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture] And what about singing? I don't know where the fine line between a Mozart opera [excerpt from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro] and a great Stephen Sondheim musical [excerpt from Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods] What I would love is if you could post your ideas and answers to the question, what is classical music, on the Listen to This Facebook page or on Twitter @listentothisNZ, or N-Zed.

Listen to this N-Zed.

I'm translating New Zealand to an American.

We nevertheless owe the fickle French lady a debt of gratitude.

Without the emotional disturbance, Tchaikovsky might not have been moved to write the Romeo and Juliet Overture Fantasy.

His first serious rebuff in love had at any rate paid dividends in art.

From then on, Tchaikovsky wrote at a feverish pace.

On December 25, the hymn resounded through the rooms of the Winter Palace on the occasion of the blessing of the colors.

As proof of his satisfaction, the Emperor graciously presented me with a gold snuff box studded with diamonds, and in addition gave orders that the words, God save the Tsar, should be placed on the armorial bearings of the Lvov family.

Overture 1812, Opus 49 Although clearly a pièce d'occasion prompted by the commemoration of a crucial page in Russian history, the Overture 1812 is a minor mystery in the Tchaikovsky catalog.

Supposedly, Nicholas Rubinstein commissioned Tchaikovsky in 1880 to write a festival overture for the Moscow Exhibition.

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yeah so come along with us and let's go exploring you've been listening to the magic of calvin and hobbes a fan celebration we'll be releasing 40 episodes all throughout the year from november 18th 2025 to november 18th 2026 to celebrate the 40th anniversary Our intro and outro music is Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, referenced in the Calvin and Hobbes strip published on October 8, 1986.

This rendition was performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra and made available under a Creative Commons license on museopen.com. We hope you'll join us next episode for more fun. . . .

Now, they did this by experimenting with different methods and by checking the quality by playing two songs over and over again.

The first one was Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture." It's really loud.

Everyone kinda knows it.

In fact, it has cannons in it.

And so she had tested classical, heavy metal, jazz, and then a control group with no music and found that the classical music was most conducive to calming the dogs getting to lay them down in the shelters, to lay down and stop the heavy breathing and reduce stress in the shelters.

Well, you and I know, and the listener knows that classical music means anything from the Berlioz Symphony Fantastique and Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture to Satie Je M'Avedis.

It's just an enormous range, but most people don't know that.

They're like, oh, I'll just put on classical music.

So I've been doing this a long time.

I, when I was around 40 and I'd been playing in symphony orchestras for 20 years or so, uh, We were doing the 1812 Overture.

Because here in Massachusetts and in New England, you play the 1812 Overture in the orchestra one or two times a year.

And I saw some of the old guys in the orchestra in the string section just kind of phoning it in.

And I didn't want to get to that space.

We'll be releasing 40 episodes all throughout the year from November 18th, 2025 to November 18th, 2026 to celebrate the 40th anniversary.

Our intro and outro music is Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, referenced in the Calvin and Hobbes strip published on October 8, 1986.

This rendition was performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra and made available under a Creative Commons license on museopen.com. We hope you'll join us next episode for more fun.

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