The world's largest contemporary music school, Berklee College of Music in Boston, shapes the very core of the city's music scene. To most Berklee students, who come from all over the world, music has been fundamental to them all their lives. We asked some of them how music has impacted them.
Hundreds of thousands of people were expected to line the banks of Boston's Charles River to watch the fireworks there, with millions more across the country watching live on CBS.
The celebration featured pop stars Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato, country group Little Big Town and, as always, the Boston Pops Orchestra, which drives home the climactic fireworks finale to Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture."
