Word: fiedler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, will be the speaker at today's Law School Coffee Hour. Fiedler plans to conduct an informal discussion on music and related fields...
Friends got Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops, to come to the hospital and listen to the music while Mrs. Davidson played it. Fiedler was impressed, offered to send an arranger to set it for orchestra, asked Dartmouth man ('47) Grant: "How would you like Evening Prayer introduced by the Pops on Dartmouth night?" Between astonishment and gratefulness, Grant just said, "Dear God!" At week's end, Ed Sullivan had scheduled both Grant and Evening Prayer for a June airing on his Toast of the Town (CBS-TV). Composer Grant, back at Cushing, was happily pecking away...
First of all, there are the traditional pops concerts, with Arthur Fielder and is small symphony playing a wide variety of selections from music to Muzak. As you might judge from his theatre program appearances, Fiedler sanctions the quaint custom of purveying beer among the higher priced seats. Harvard night at the Pops, May 10, is, of course, without peer as an adventure into the realm of familiar music. Unfortunately, Pops also holds B.U. and Northeastern nights, and attendance at these affairs is somewhat less comforting, unless you prefer their songs...
Springtime means more than robins, romance, and reading period. It marks the appearance of that most unusual phenomenon--the Boston Pops Orchestra. Season after season Arthur Fiedler and his men have been delighting highbrows, lowbrows, and no-brows with nightly renditions of the best in light classical and popular music...
...Arthur Fiedler (who looks more like an insurance salesman than a symphonic conductor) has lost none of his joviality. He conducted with briskness and precision and rewarded his audiences with encores whenever they clapped loud enough...