Boston Pops Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts, specializing in light classical and popular music.
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16 Facts About Boston Pops
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Boston Pops Orchestra had seventeen conductors before 1930, when Arthur Fiedler began a fifty-year tenure as the first American-born conductor to lead the orchestra.
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Boston Pops instituted a series of free concerts at the Hatch Shell on the Esplanade, a public park beside the Charles River.
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Under Fiedler's direction, the Boston Pops has sold more commercial recordings than any other orchestra in the world, with total sales of albums, singles, tapes, and cassettes exceeding $50 million.
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Williams remains the Laureate Conductor of the Boston Pops and conducts a week of Boston Pops concerts every year, two nights at Symphony Hall each spring and two nights in the Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood each summer.
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The Boston Pops were joined by Ashley Brown, Josh Strickland, Alton Fitzgerald White and Merle Dandridge to perform beloved songs from 9 Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-winning scores to "Disney's Broadway Hits".
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Bernadette Peters was the Opening Night headliner, with the Boston Pops performing a tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, the world premiere of "From The Earth to the Moon and Beyond", a piece by composer James Beckel.
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The Boston Pops were joined by Meacham and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, under the direction of James Burton for the first two of their four appearances that spring.
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The Boston Pops were joined by Broadway actors Sierra Boggess, Telly Leung and Alton Fitzgerald White for these performances.
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The Boston Pops were conducted by Ted Sperling and were supposed to be joined by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus under the direction of James Burton, for the last two of their four appearances that spring.
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The Boston Pops were joined by Palmer and Gaiman as special guests.
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The Boston Pops were conducted by Charles Floyd, and Smokie Norful was the special guest.
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The Boston Pops specifically commissioned the piece by Peter Boyer and Lynn Ahrens to be used during their 125th season.
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In October 2016, the Boston Pops agreed to take over the management of the annual July Fourth fireworks concert on the Esplanade and to take on the responsibility for finding a corporate sponsor for the $2 million cost.
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Lockhart and the Boston Pops performed with Queen Latifah, folk legend Arlo Guthrie, poet Amanda Gorman, two acts from America's Got Talent, The Texas Tenors and Amanda Mena, and the United States Navy Band's Sea Chanters Chorus.
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The New Year's Eve concert was performed by the Boston Pops Swing Orchestra and special guest The Hot Sardines.
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