The show was titled Tchaikovsky Spectacular with Fireworks! led by conductor Bramwell Tovey featuring the LA Philharmonic. Sounds a tad stuffy with someone named "Bramwell" leading the whole shabang but I assure you it was anything but. Bramwell was my favorite part. I fought the tears at the end with 1812 Overture and fucking fantastic fireworks spewing from behind the Bowl. Just before the whole thing exploded at the end, the USC Trojans "slipped on" (Bramwell's much applauded verbatim introduction, not mine) and blew the audience away.
I don't know if you remember at the end of V for Vendetta when V blows up British Parlement, the city's PA System is playing "1812 Overture". It's pure power, which is what the Russians needed after defeating offender Napoleon Bonaparte and his intrusive Grande Armee. Oh the French.
Berliner Philharmonic - "1812 Overture" MP3 (with Vocals)
I was a bit bored/peeved at the beginning, when the symphony performed music from the Nutcracker. I hate when Halloween garb hits drug store shelves September 1, how the Starbucks red cups come earlier and earlier each year and ESPECIALLY hearing Christmas music before December 1. It messes me up emotionally. It woud be like putting a heat lamp in a hibernating bear's den in Jthe dead of winter. You'd probably murder him with confusion. I need the time to be right, no cheating the Season's highs.
So Good tidings to you, I'll see you in December wearing short-shorts and zinc oxide on my nose, fucking Nutcracker in September, who does that?
Honestly is was a blast, literally and figuratively and I would do it again for certain.
Hollywood Bowl's Professional Photo of the affair:
My low-res iPhone foto (still rad!):
<3 ANR
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