Keith Lockhart, Conductor,
John Williams, Laureate Conductor
Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra
Influences
Arthur Fiedler, John Williams, Leroy Anderson, John Philip Sousa, George Gershwin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Edward Elgar, Antonin Dvorak, Richard Wagner, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Kander & Ebb, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Morton Gould, Glenn Osser, Sammy Nestico, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Marvin Hamlisch, Pat Hollenbeck, Don Sebesky, Angela Morley, Richard Hayman, Ennio Morricone, Henry Mancini, Aaron Copland, Carole King, Harold Arlen, Dmitri Shostakovich, Samuel Barber, Woody Guthrie, Christopher Brubeck, Billy Joel, Vaughan Williams, Igor Stravinsky, Claude Debussy, Tod Machover, Bjork, Elvis Costello, Guster, My Morning Jacket, Aimee Mann, M. Ward, Cowboy Junkies, Paul Oakenfold, Nico Muhly, Felix Brenner, Christopher Rouse, Nino Rota, Cole Porter, Carlo Menotti, Irving Berlin, Jules Styne, Lerner & Loewe, Jerry Herman, Kurt Weill, Ben Folds, Sufjan Stephens, Joanna Newsom, The Flaming Lips, Death Cab for Cutie, Calexico, The Decemberists, HEM, Bright Eyes, David Byrne, Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Dianne Reeves, Dave Brubeck, Herbie Hancock
Sounds Like
Full symphony orchestra in all genres of music - classical, jazz, rock, pop, folk, Americana, blues, Gospel, Celtic, Latin, world, and more.
For over a century, the Boston Pops has upheld its status as a principal cultural institution in America, a musical ambassador abroad, and the most-recorded orchestra in the world. The three American-born Conductors, Arthur Fiedler (1930-1979), John Williams (1980-1995), and Keith Lockhart (1995-present), all maintain one universal belief: to consistently push the envelope of symphonic programming by translating popular music into an orchestral setting. The genres of jazz, musical theater, film, folk, blues, world, country, pop, and rock have all been performed by the Boston Pops, thanks to the genius of the orchestra’s composers and arrangers combined with the talent of the best orchestral musicians in the world. The list of guest artists who have performed with the orchestra is legendary, and includes icons such as Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis Presley, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Ray Charles, Gregory Hines, Sarah Vaughan, Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, Dave Brubeck, Sammy Davis, Jr., Loretta Lynn, Bonnie and John Raitt, James Taylor, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, k.d. lang, Harry Connick Jr., Alison Krauss and Union Station, Diana Krall, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Buckwheat Zydeco, Arturo Sandoval, and Bono.
Thursday night's show with Amanda Palmer was fantastic! Quite possibly the best Edgefest show that I've seen...and I've been to nearly all of them. Bravi, bravi, bravi!!! Back tonight for Dizzy G's All-Stars. I'll try not to beep when I should bop.
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