The Minnesota Orchestra's sold-out "Echoes of History" concert reopening the University of Minnesota's iconic Northrop Memorial Auditorium on Friday reprises more than Northrop's original Oct. 22, ...
A noisy, patriotic hullabaloo is Peter Ilich Tschaikowsky’s 1812 Overture. Depicting Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, it ends with a mixture of the Marseillaise, the Imperial Russian anthem and — so ...
Though he loathed it, Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture won him fans the world over and made him a household name. In 1962, a Don Draper-like advertising executive decided to market the oaty goodness of an ...