On the first concert of Symphony Under the Sky...

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Tonight was the first concert of Symphony Under the Sky, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra's annual outdoor Labour Day Weekend concert series. The concerts have been going on for fourteen years, and my mom and I have gone to thirteen of the fourteen - we missed one in the middle because I moved to Boston! Needless to say, it's a really big and

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I presume you would have known the William Tell Overture then?

Wasn't Strauss Sr's Radetzky March? ~F# ~F# ~F# E D ~F# ~F# ~F# B A AF# G B A GE F# B A AF# E C# D B A AG#ABAG F# ~F# ~F# E D ~F# ~F# ~F# B A AF# G# C# B_ or something. The background: it was written in honour of an Austrian general in the 19th century, so yes, it is appropriate to associate it with horses :-)

I played the snare drum part for it back in school orchestra at least.

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Yup, that's the one.