Nashville did itself proud last night--the fireworks and the symphony orchestra were wonderful. Billed as the third largest firework display in the world, the works were choreographed with music by the symphony--a double pleasure for the eyes and ears!
The orchestra played mostly Sousa marches as the fireworks displayed designs upon designs (as I have never seen before) and color upon color.
John Philip Sousa is to marches what Beethoven is to symphonies. Simply the best.
Of course his Stars and Strips Forever which is our national march and which always is the finale stirs us patriotically. But others such as the El Capitan, Semper Fidelis, Washington Post and King Cotton Marches were played and certainly evoked memories of anyone who has ever played in a marching band. It was magnificent!!!
And we only watched it on TV--what must it have been for those thousands down in the Riverfront Theater.
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