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1712 Overture and Fireworks (Original Post) kentauros Jul 2015 OP
Suddenly I had a craving for a bowl of puffed wheat Brother Buzz Jul 2015 #1
Doesn't Shooting Their Cereal from Guns Wolf Frankula Jul 2015 #3
I've always wondered where that "shot from guns" quote kentauros Jul 2015 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author shenmue Jul 2015 #2
You never truly know with P.D.Q. Bach: kentauros Jul 2015 #5
1812 Overture was Tchaikovsky panader0 Jul 2015 #6
One might think so pokerfan Jul 2015 #7

Wolf Frankula

(3,602 posts)
3. Doesn't Shooting Their Cereal from Guns
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 12:44 PM
Jul 2015

violate the pacifist principle of the Quaker religion?

Oh well, "Most things are better for thee, than me."

Wolf

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kentauros

(29,414 posts)
5. You never truly know with P.D.Q. Bach:
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 02:45 PM
Jul 2015
Although P.D.Q. Bach was born on April 1, 1742 and died on May 5, 1807, the dates on his first tombstone (before he was moved to an unmarked pauper’s grave) were inscribed “1807-1742” in a transparent attempt to make it appear that he could not have been the son of J.S., who died in 1750. Nice try, Bach family—close, but no cigar: some of us, or at least one of us, are not fooled, or at least, is not fooled.


panader0

(25,816 posts)
6. 1812 Overture was Tchaikovsky
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 05:23 PM
Jul 2015

I saw a performance of it as a kid and there are "fireworks" toward the end.
The orchestra hired some soldiers from the nearby base to shoot their rifles (blanks).

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