The 1812 Solemn Overture by Tchaikovsky sure is an energetic piece. but then this happened.
"the finale of that piece features real actual cannons, right? is that how you died?"
"if it was my fate to be slain by a piece of music, cannons would have been far preferable to my utterly farcical demise."
"what happened?"
"The Overture requires several cannons, because it is impossible to load a single cannon quickly enough to fire as the score demands. However the stage we were performing on could not have borne the weight."
"what did you do?"
"I was not informed of the difficulty until it was far too late to make any changes. It transpired that the stage manager decided it would be sifficient to give a box of bullets to the tuba player."
"... You were shot by a tuba?"
"I was shot, as you say, by a tuba."
what a way to go out! this was a little joke in a game called West Of Loathing where a guy died by being shot by a tuba in the dlc. i thought it was funny so i played into the joke a bit with flicker lol.
