For the concert's main event, the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, lead by conductor Keith Lockhart, will perform beloved favorites, including Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture." The Pops will also be ...

To get the timing right, there will be a couple of people reading sheet music during the 1812 overture. One of them, the son of the famed Pops Conductor Arthur Fielder, cuing the howitzers.

To get the timing right, there will be a couple of people reading sheet music during the 1812 overture. One of them, the son of the famed Pops Conductor Arthur Fielder, cuing the howitzers.

Six Massachusetts National Guard soldiers will fire the cannons at the end of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, the finale to the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular. The cannons have only about 20 ...