Friday, March 29, AD 2024 1:56am

Fireworks Melody

 

Something for the Weekend.  I always find the Handel composition Music For the Royal Fireworks (1749) to be stirring.  It was written to celebrate the ending of the War of the Austrian Succession and the signing of the peace of Aix-La-Chappelle in 1748.  It turned out to be merely a truce before the start of the Seven Years War, the big war of the Eighteenth Century, known as the French and Indian War in America, and initiated by a 22 year old George Washington!  Counting the fighting in America which began in 1754, it should properly be known as the Nine Years War.

Here is the overture with an appropriate video:

 

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Dr. Charles Kenny
Dr. Charles Kenny
Saturday, July 21, AD 2012 1:49pm

How do you figure that George W initiated it?

Charlie

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