Ginger Meggs by Jason Chatfield for October 05, 2016

It was considered a cost cutting method to train the army band and artillery together.

Yeah, I doubt that it was ever performed indoors. Unless it was with taped cannon sound effects. Didn’t AC/DC have a song with live cannons? I wonder how they played that song live.

sure, Mr. Meggs, whate’er you say

I tried to post a hyperlink in my original comment but gocomics won’t even allow that now:

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0F5k70xwGSk

If you must, a very effective indoor cannon for 1812 (and other noisemakers like “Wellington’s Victory”) is a shotgun blank fired into a steel 50 gallon garbage can. M80’s are too difficult to time correctly and are somewhat more dangerous on a crowded stage…

“We like the halls, the halls that go boom, we’re Calvin and Hobbes and we like the boom.”

That’s right, Calvin, imagine all the blood and guts everywhere. Not boring at all.

The Cleveland Orchestra performs the 1812 Overture every July 4th at the Blossom Music Center. They use authentic period French and English field pieces for the performance.It’s seriously impressive.

http://www.clevelandamphitheater.com/blossom-music-center/

The 1812 Overture will always remind me of Farscape.

What did Tchaikovsky think of his “magnum opus”?

Tchaikovsky complained to his patron Nadezhda von Meck that he was “… not a conductor of festival pieces,” and that the Overture would be “… very loud and noisy, but [without] artistic merit, because I wrote it without warmth and without love.”

Can’t post a picture but I’m reminded of the classic Mickey Mouse cartoon “The Band Concert.”

That’s because it is.

The Boston Pops used to perform the 1812 Overture with synchronized cannon fire at their July Fourth outdoor concert. It was quite……energizing……even when viewed on a TV screen.

I’ve heard classical music sold to teens as a quiet walk down the street, then you see some trouble, then there’s a full blown fight. Ends with death or serious harm. That is, beginning with a pastoral, and eventually ending with a requiem.

Need some Millennium Falcon laser cannons – now that would be sweet.

For some musicians it would be better if the audience were armed with cannons!

As long as Jane Fonda isn’t sitting on one of those cannons they can play that song all day!

I always loved the 1812 with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops on the 4th ! With real cannon !

I love classical music. One of my favourite pieces is Mozart’s Symphony #40,

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One of my favourite pieces of classical music is Night in Tunisia by Dizzy Gillespie with Charlie Parker.

I saw the Pittsburgh Symphony perform this on the 4th of July in the old Three Rivers Stadium with several cannons arrayed across the outfield and with a marching band to play that portion of the piece. It was awesome. The cannons shook the entire stadium.

Am listening to AllClassical.org right now as I read the comics.

In England the London Orchestra performed indoors with the type of explosions used in outdoor sessions with rock bands. Very impressive.

Ages ago I went to see the Baltimore Symphony out in the woods at Oregon Ridge. You’d think that was the perfect place for guns at the climax of the 1812. No, they wussied out and used percussion.

I’d like to take the idiots who decided to ban pictures from being posted on Gocomics an blast them with cannons!!!!!! >:D