I'm playing the 1812 Overture and loving it.  All fifteen minutes of
it, not just the thunderous finale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbxgYlcNxE8

Just regretting that I don't have a real cannon - even a small one - 
in the back garden to fire off at the finale.  (That would freak out
the curtain twitchers.)

=====

"Tchaikovsky, cannons are not instruments."
"Yes they are, and I'm going to use 21 of them."
"Tchaikovsky, no."
"Tchaikovsky, YES."

Ah, the blithe confidence of the creative soul ;-)

Gyppo

My boys loved The Boom Record and asked me to play it (the entire thing) all the time. They would stage a war in the living room and by the time the cannons fired, they were throwing their bodies onto the sofa with wild abandon. It was epic - each and every time.

It is one fine bit of music.