Word: fiedler
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Following a legend, conceded Composer John T. Williams last week, "will be very difficult." Still he seems a logical choice to take the baton of the late Arthur Fiedler as conductor of the Boston Pops. A month short of his 48th birthday, Williams has written more than 50 film scores, and won Oscars for three (Fiddler on the Roof, Jaws and Star Wars). The new leader will meet his musicians at a Boston rehearsal next week, then conduct his first concert at Carnegie Hall. The parent Boston Symphony Orchestra, which depended on Fiedler's prodigious performances to keep...
John Williams, composer of the music to "Star Wars" and "Jaws" and winner of three Academy Awards in his field, has been named as the new conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, filling the vacancy created by Arthur Fiedler's death last July...