Non-stop crescendo as music meets Lija fireworks tomorrow

Marianna Galea Xuereb

Aug 7th 2010, 14:00

A fascinating and spectacular show - despite the fact that I am the kind of person who silently and continuously prays that all will go well during and prior to such shows, even if I cannot help dancing to the music synchronised to a pyrotechnic display. My heart missed more than one beat towards the end of Thursday night's show when I saw fire flames rising up towards the sky from the ground (I was watching from a spot adjacent to the Halmann showroom). The few seconds that it took me to realise that this was part of the show seemed much longer.

Now if only someone (or several) will come up with ideas to minimize the excessive noise, pollution and danger associated with this fascinating art form! Let us all pray for this too.

eusebio Aquilina

Aug 4th 2010, 21:54

Mr.Marco Buttigieg, l-ewwel nies proset tal-kummenti tieghek, fil fatt ma tantx hallejtli xi nghid lil Mr.Schembri. Jien nahdem in-nar gewwa il-Gharghur u huma nies bhalek li jimlghuna bil-kuragga u nkomplu ghaddejin!! ax hawn 4 bi mnehirom imxammar jipretendu li jridu jeqirdu dak li ilu zmien twil jimbena gewwa Malta u gewwa fina. Dillettanti tan-nar maltin inkomplu sejrin hekk u iktbulom lura lill dawn it-tip ta nies halli flahhar ikunu jafu li mux huma biss jafu jikkummentaw fuq site!!

R.Borg

Aug 4th 2010, 21:03

Il pericolo e' il loro mestiere!
But good luck just the same!
And do not forget that the most important element in a village festa is the church liturgy.
The Lord is also waiting for you.!

Roderick Mifsud

Aug 4th 2010, 20:17

Just for all the people who wish to comment on LIja fireworks display. This small village in the heart of Malta has lit the Maltese skies for so many years with spectacular shows have started this type of displays for the last 15 years approximately with there own invented system which worked just the same,i don't know what the big deal really is about syncronized music with fireworks.
So to all the people who wish to enjoy a nice evening in the middle of summer come to lija enjoy the show. Everybody knows what the people in St.Michaels Fireworks Factory are capapble of. Thanks to all this guys that with the passion they have that we can continue enjoying these type of shows around the country. Be safe and may God bless you all.

Jaycee Sullivan

Aug 4th 2010, 19:33

I would love to join my friend Marco Buttigieg (below) for what promises to be another excellent show put-on by the Lija St. Michael's, like I did in previous years when I was in Malta.

Good luck to all and a safe display. May everyone enjoy a show which we in Canada would line-up for hours, once-a-year to see. That or just dream about it.

p attard

Aug 4th 2010, 19:30

Good luck Lija guys! Hope you will give us yet another colorful and colossal display! But I do hope one day you will all abolish the 'bomba' finale. Last week I witnessed a wonderful firewarks display on Lake Bled in Slovenia, and it did NOT contain any noisy bangs. Please just try to do it! Thanks!

Joseph Schembri

Aug 4th 2010, 18:33

You are right - visible light and radio waves travel at the same speed. I had assumed that the radio station would be picking up the sound from some distance away (then they'd still be limited by the 300 m/s rule) and apart from that aren't radio stations in Malta bound by law to provide for a 10 second delay for any live transmission?

You are also right that I dislike fireworks - the fact that these people make life unbearable for others who have no wish to share in their hobby is unforgiveable. I have spent too many summers away from Malta to try and get away from the Festa mayhem to show any liking for this sort of thing.

attard edward

Aug 4th 2010, 16:46

c' on lija ;god bless you all.

Marco Buttigieg

Aug 4th 2010, 16:01

@ Joseph Schembri

Instead of lambasting all the fireworks enthusiasts (they are enthusiasts and not professionals, although most of their work surpasses that of fireworks professionals) it is better if you go and have a basic course in science yourself. Actually it is possible to watch a fireworks display synchronised to a radio broadcast because both the light waves produced by the fireworks and the waves used transmit sound travel at the same speed. In fact they also form part of the electromagnetic spectrum. What is very difficult to synchronise is the sound of the petard, but fireworks is not all about petards! But probably you are one of those narrow minded individuals who use every opportunity to lambast everything that has to do with fireworks and demonise the enthusiasts.

Congratulations to all the enthusiasts in Malta and do your best to keep it safe.

Alfred Dimech

Aug 4th 2010, 15:42

Namirakom bhala kamra ta nar ghax ghalkemm ghandkom hafna successi aqwa minn irhula ohra dejjem bqajtu saqajkom mal- art u ma tarax lil kulhadd dubien bhal m ghamel haddiehor u b' hekk minn sena ghal sena naraw show sabieh. Awguri. keep up the good work.

m.farrugia

Aug 4th 2010, 14:28

can anyone tell me which zone/ area will be better to watch this show ?
thanks

Kevin Camilleri

Aug 4th 2010, 14:07

Looking forward to the show guys! Give us enthusiasts and the tourists, something to remember!

A Zahra

Aug 4th 2010, 13:35

Good luck to the Lija Guys. Hope we get to enjoy their year's long effort this thursday and Friday from a keen enthusiast who plays the game.

Regarding the last line of the report I think the reporter should get his facts right before makinfg certain statements. Many factories have been using similar systems since 2004 if not even before. Other have even gone to the extent of designing and building their own digital wireless firing systems.

Karl Consiglio

Aug 4th 2010, 13:05

Bad taste

Chris Grech

Aug 4th 2010, 12:26

when i was in canada, i attended a B&H Synphony of fire - and that was how we listened to the music ... since different people saw the show from different areas...

great idea

john borg

Aug 4th 2010, 11:04

can the music accompanying the fireworks be played by some radio station, so those looking from distant locations can enjoy as well????