Happy Independence Day!

[phesina]

Happy Independence Day!

Or as we say here (since I work for a British-owned company)
Happy Insurrection Day!

I LOVE your fireworks!!!

[phesina]

Thanks to our international friends for your good Independence Day wishes!

[cassiesmom]

Independence Day doesn't really lend itself to being observed on the nearest Monday, as so many other holidays are here. It just works out right that it's on Monday this year, but next year if we did nearest Monday the Fourth would be on the Second!

Happy Fourth of July/Independence Day to all our American friends (and everyone else)!

Dear U.S. PT Friends, happy Fourth of July! Happy Birthday America!

Karen, I was just watching the Boston Pops Independence Day concert on TV. For "Stars and Stripes Forever" there were five piccolo players from the U.S. Army (?) band and three in the orchestra. (as a flutist the piccolo part was my big dream and when I finally got to do it my senior year of high school, learning it was a big nightmare!) I've never seen eight people play it together, though! I was so proud but my cheeks hurt watching them! (My fingers still do it by muscle memory )

[Karen]

Dear U.S. PT Friends, happy Fourth of July! Happy Birthday America!

Karen, I was just watching the Boston Pops Independence Day concert on TV. For "Stars and Stripes Forever" there were five piccolo players from the U.S. Army (?) band and three in the orchestra. (as a flutist the piccolo part was my big dream and when I finally got to do it my senior year of high school, learning it was a big nightmare!) I've never seen eight people play it together, though! I was so proud but my cheeks hurt watching them! (My fingers still do it by muscle memory

Yes, I had it on the radio on my way home from watching the Newton fireworks, no orchestra, but we are close enough to feel the booms shake the ground, and smell the gunpowder. I wondered how the piccolos were heard so well on the radio broadcast, having 8 kinda explains it! My clarinet teacher was adept at every woodwind instrument except piccolo - his hands were to big to play it! My sister's a flautist, and so she also played piccolo, I stuck with reeds (clarinet and baritone saxophone, mostly!).