From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   On 7/4/2024 8:16 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   > Gary McGath   wrote:   
   >> On 7/4/24 8:54 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >>> Gary McGath   wrote:   
   >>>> On 7/3/24 12:15 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Its perhaps interesting to compare this to moves to   
   >>>>> exclude Russians from many competitions, out of (wholly   
   >>>>> justified) horror at the invasion of Ukraine.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Tchaikovsky has been removed from some concerts for that reason. Since   
   >>>> he died before the invasion started, not to mention before Putin was   
   >>>> born, it's quite a stretch to blame him.   
   >>>   
   >>> He DID write an opera glorifying the secret police after all.   
   >>   
   >> The Oprichnik? That one's so obscure I never heard of it before doing a   
   >> search just now on "Tchaikovsky secret police". Perhaps for good reason.   
   >   
   > It's one of those things that gets performed in Russia but not here.   
   > It doesn't have any really catchy tunes but it's musically okay.   
      
   Regardless, The Boston Pops just completed the 1812 Overture, in their   
   annual July 4 concert in the Hatch Shell, immediately preceding a   
   massive fireworks display on the Charles River.   
      
   This the is 50th consecutive year they've done it.   
      
   pt   
      
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