Every Fourth of July, the Boston Pops concert on the Esplanade ends with a bang. And it isn't just fireworks. The high point of the 1812 Overture includes firing cannons. The piece is about Russia's ...

CHARLESTON -- The Charleston Community Band's extended concert Thursday night will feature use of a miniature cannon on "The 1812 Overture" and guest conductors on three other songs. Many patriotic ...

To critics, this July 4 the Houston Symphony turned into the Houston Sym-phony. The annual holiday classical musical concert at Miller Outdoor Theatre this year lacked the signature cannons used ...

Somehow, over the past half-century and with hardly anyone noticing, the 19th century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has become as integral to the Fourth of July as George Washington and ...