[Rhodes22-list] One of My Favorites

[Leland]

Can’t watch youtube at work but it isn’t like I haven’t heard the 1812
Overture before.

 

It’s like I can’t listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking about
the Lone Ranger.  Every time I listen to the 1812 Overture I think about
that old commercial for ?Quaker Puffs?—“This is the cereal that’s shot from
guns…” to the tune of the Russian national anthem.  It also includes the
French national anthem and I believe Tchaikovsky actually used real cannons
for the battle scene.  He was definitely the father of the big band sound.


Slim Chance wrote:
> 
> Some of you remember me as a rocker but I grew up with a classical
> background.  Back in the the 60s There was a weekly TV program called
> Leonard Bernstein's Young Peoples' Concert which I never missed.  I
> believe
> LB to be arguably the greatest American musician of all.  Maybe Louis
> Armstrong, Bernstein, Armstrong, Bernstein Armstrong.  Obviously for
> different reasons.  But check this out and please also watch the second
> part
> where he conducts the reprise with his face alone.  This video also
> features
> Jeff Foxworthy on flute!
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlURvraEmeY
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