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1812 Overture
Originally, the 1812 Overture was called the 1811 Overture. A shipping problem with the cannons meant long, frustrating delays. Tchaikovsky, however, refused to recede from his original vision rejecting such alternatives as water pistols, bungers and people yelling 'BOOM' really loudly (the latter was suggested by William Shakespeare who was over three hundred years old at the time and really wearing out his welcome). Tchaikovsky's stance was eventually vindicated, of course, although he later brought himself undone by inexplicably advocating the mass slaughter of all amphibians.
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