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Readers not impressed with the Music at the Ridgewood Fireworks ,but thought the 4th of July Commette did a great job
Readers not impressed with the Music at the Ridgewood Fireworks ,but thought the 4th of July Commette did a great job
Did not like the music witht the fireworks at all; I think it distracted from the fireworks and had too many dead moments while songs changed. Couldn’t the contractor find an American singer to sing “God Bless the U.S.A. (Celine Dione is Canadian)? How about a little John Philips Souza? I also thought ALL of the music should have been patriotic; it is the 4th of July, is it not? The crowd wasn’t sure if the finale was actually the finale . . . not a good thing. I thought the fireworks were a bit less extravagant than past years but I’ll still buy my ticket and send in my donation as I think the overall production is good. I thoroughly enjoyed the bands.
Kudos to the Committee for another wonderful July 4th.
another reader concurred :
Agree 100% :This turned out to be the most disappointing fireworks display in Ridgewood that I’ve seen over the decades.
The fireworks themselves were beautiful, as always, but the package they were put in (with really bad, droopy sounding, s-l-o-w, non-patriotic music (Jurassic park???) totally ruined the light show, and generally I’m a great fan of music accompanying fireworks. But if you aren’t the Boston Pops or the Chicago Symphony Orchestra playing the William Tell Overture with fireworks going off at the exact time they should for the max effect, better not try! Bad bad bad choice of music. I even heard a local hound dog chorus to one of the songs.
Honestly, the whole thing was so badly done that no one knew when the finale was happening. I mean — really — if your audience has no sense that the performance is reaching or has reached a crescendo– you really directed things badly, don’t you think? We all waited another five minutes expecting more — but that more never happened.
In contrast — last year’s performance was wonderful — the best! Hope I can say the same next year.
whats your take??
This was not the first time I attended the Ridgewood fireworks and as usual they were great. This was the first time though that I ever heard them play music during the fireworks. IT WAS TERRIBLE!!!!! The music was totally DISTRACTING, too LOUD and half the songs were entirely IRRELEVANT to the 4th of July. At first I thought it was a mistake but by the third song it became painfully apparent that it was not. Who ever made the decision to add music to the fireworks is some kind of dolt. Were do I take my ticket stub to get a refund?