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...nearly 70. They have been courting each other every spring for the past 34 years. But to tradition-steeped Bos ton, the match is as youthful as ever. The town turns out when the red neon sign atop Symphony Hall blinks Pops, Pops, and Conductor Arthur Fiedler signals the first, firm downbeat to his first love, the Boston Pops Orchestra...
...high jinks, though, Fiedler liberally laces his joy juice with headier stuff from Handel, Frescobaldi, Poulenc and Stravinsky. He delights in proclaiming, "I've been accused of making more friends for music than any other conductor. I have no use for those snobs who look down their noses at everything but the most highbrow music. I'm a serious musician, but I don't want to be classified. I'd be bored doing only symphony music...
...chairs (violin, viola, celesta, piano, organ and percussions) before he founded the open-air Esplanade Concerts in 1929 and began luring up to 20,000 persons across the Arthur Fiedler Bridge to the banks of the Charles River for free concerts. In 1930 he became the first Boston-bred conductor of the Pops...
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA Howard Hanson, composer, conductor and director of the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music-Litt...
...ideal pops concert is played in a park, and its program is as light and harmless as a passing cloud-Gershwin, Sousa, Leroy Anderson. This follows the old axiom that serious music, like aged whisky, should be saved for cold winter nights.* But the music that Conductor Andre Kostelanetz chose to open the New York Philharmonic "Promenades" series last week had real substance-Shostakovich, Ravel, Alan Hovhaness...