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 ...

Members of the 101st Field Artillery tested the cannons which will be used when the Boston Pops perform the 1812 Overture. They planned to test the cannons earlier in the day, but couldn't because of ...

Over the past 145 years, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” has been used to celebrate July 4th, sell cereal and astound movie audiences. It’s been sampled and spoofed, with popping balloons ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - Fireworks dazzled crowds at the Hatch Shell Oval on the Charles River Esplanade Thursday night as this year’s Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular came to a close. Cannons boomed during ...

Cannon to the right of you. Cannon to the left of you. But, be assured, no cannon in front of you. The "Pop Goes the 4th" holiday celebration at Overpeck County Park — unlike the Charge of the Light ...

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 ...