I haven’t either. Maybe in Pittsburgh. Now, “Stars And Stripes Forever,” yeah, that one is muscle memory by now.
The 1812 is played on Fourth celebrations by the Chicago Symphony and the Boston Pops among many others.
***I’ve never heard of the 1812 Overture being associated with the 4th of July. ****
I remember it being used in an advertisement for puffed wheat or rice years ago.
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has been playing the 1812 Overture for July 4 fireworks for as long as I can remember (I’m 55).
That is its only association with July 4 that I know of, and apparently (from reading this thread) it’s not just a Baltimore thing.
“Did the media do a “memory hole” thing again?”
They always do. The media likes to say how the Revolution was about the USA fighting to be independent from Britain and they portray the war as if Britain was an occupier.
Britain was NOT an occupier. THIS was Britain!
The war did not start out as a war for independence. The British in their history books get this one right: The war started out as an uprising by British subjects AGAINST THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT which had become tyrannical.
See, the liberal media doesn’t want anyone getting it in their heads that people should overthrow their own government when it gets tyrannical. If so, then we’re overdue for a revolution right now.