Topic: Boston Pops Orchestra

Back by popular demand is the Winchester Unitarian Society's jazz quintet, performing a spectrum of music by Duke Ellington, Horace Silver, Miles...

Networks go Fourth with holiday specials

Television networks plan a variety of special programming over the holiday weekend, and some of it, like the movies on TCM, actually has something...
Boston Symphony Orchestra says conductor James Levine (Leh-VINE'), cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and other renowned world musicians will headline its summer 2011 Tanglewood season.. The BSO announced Tuesday that Levine will lead the orchestra on July 8 in an all-Italian ...
The Boston Pops can do no wrong. The CD opens with "The Star-Spangled Banner," appropriately enough, then moves on to "Liberty Fanfare," by one of America's most prominent orchestral and film composers, and Lockhart's predecessor, John Williams . The next few ...
Over two hundred years ago, our country declared its independence, and in the birth of a nation, has given its citizens a reason to embrace and celebrate our freedom. The move to the Hudson River celebrates the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson ...
Following my heart bypass, I was sent home with my heart shaped pillow to recuperate. Once while watching the Fourth of July celebration on television, the Boston Pops orchestra began playing the 1812 Overture, and I happened to look over at my ...
The Boston Hatch Shell is a performance stage that is located in the Esplanade on the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts. The Hatch Shell is the scene of many performances from all different genres of music. Arthur Fiedler (former composer for the ...
Here are just a few of the highlights from Boston's many offerings: It was born when its founder, Henry Lee Higginson, stated the desire to present "concerts of a lighter kind of music" accessible to the public in Boston, and organized ...
The Boston Pops Orchestra is a branch of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 1930, Arthur Fiedler became the 18th conductor of the Boston Pops. Much of the success and popularity of the Boston Pops over the years can be directly attributed to ...
Robert De Niro was brought to tears just before the premier of the Boston Pops for "The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers" at ...