It has long been a custom to have music accompany fireworks displays. The 1812 Overture is probably the song most often pressed into this service.
However, I came across this bit on Slate noting that famed fireworks expert Takeo Shimizu used musical notation to plan his luminous displays.
The pyrotechnics expert Takeo Shimizu used a musical score to represent his designs: Each stave corresponded to a different firing location, and each note represented a particular kind of shell fired at a particular time.
A symphony of sight and sound indeed!
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