Evening At Pops; Arthur Fiedler: Just Call Me Maestro; 1702

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This program is made possible by a grant from Martin Marietta Corporation as well. So when they graduated from Harvard Law of job well what if she were the first young victim I got in the neighborhood. Right. For five years. But after that we tried to buy the candy that we came to support. He opened the box and we were talking about the day we had the pack but we had always done it right. And you really are by far the most vital and physically active race. You agree or disagree. We all agree today.
I don't know why you're doing 20 bands anywhere at any time in your life anything so serious about. You really don't even know what I mean when I'm like well I've had them for about 30 years ago. Then about six years of my life I've often said that either Friedman doesn't know
he's still making a career for so and you just take him. He's totally surprised what people even recognize him. He's Mr. Boston he's Mr. music and he looks exactly the way a music conductor is supposed to look like in this fashion. Also looks a bit like Santa Claus. Extraordinary career in many ways. One of the most remarkable musical careers I've seen in my long time in the. Became the way things do we became an institution. He made an
institution out of himself without crying during all the splendid looking man. He looks like a conductor. I mean he could sing. You know he could tell anything but he throws himself into a march as over the Beethoven Ninth Symphony My motto is really you Rex rots
Maestro my nose. Thank you. Thank you. These guys are going to play on a b b b b b b b but you decide to just go to bed. No no no no no. Happy Monday. Oh oh oh oh
oh oh oh. He's just I'm surprised I'm amazed. This kind of music industry these hallowed halls. I guess it creating these. I mean I can hear Dr. call. What did you say. After all he has to earn a living at his age right off. I don't call him Mr.. I didn't call you Mr. Hoffa. Mustafa. I said Maestro No you said before that Mr. off the women are going off yeah I'll buy them my trophies anything but I don't like Mr. Rob. You don't get a thing you don't get it. All right. OK I've got all the Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb
Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb with a book. We will be at any rate stay in place by the sea comes in on the yes.
2 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. I'm so happy. I want to say once a week. Are you ready. What's up. I already see him. Oh good will you tell him what to do all day and
every day and you'll be ha ha ha ha. That may be a go out do you get it all right. Boy what a good game. Good morning. Thank you. Tuesday June 20 solid Monday through Friday June 27. We're almost through a decision this last week. Now Friday is July 1st. Strange that you're going to have 31 days.
Could I could it could. It's possible someone still couldn't. There's one point twenty five or thirty days has September April. Best way to count that. How do you go from July to Sunday. I'm going to be kept on time yes. Yes. Now for an encore or evergreen No no no. We have a baby who loves summer. Wouldn't it be better to have it on the program. I'm trying to get the. Hang up.
Nothing to do. Bye bye. Bye bye bye. Bye. You want to. Short break here and this will. Be Greensleeves and much more Greensleeves and washwoman rates which we've already rehearsed the like old timer. I LOVE IT SO HARD. Bukharin grief that's worse than walking off. And now I'm on to something else and I don't want to know it. Good morning. I know that's appropriate. The photographer that would you all beautiful. They thought you might
want to say something like that. They don't tell me what to say. All right. You can read this. For you. Let me help you out. It's a nice picture right. You know what that was you're making. I know you were watching when she was doing one for a little. So. You were just sitting there watching you from that series. You. Performing. She. Does. Not. Look very different and. Once. You.
Know. I. Think. The. I. Don't only do it. Right. Thank
you. Thank. You. It seems it's. Just. You know she said she says she. Gets. A. Block. Away from me. I. Go.
To. Work you know fun
Ballet Beautiful lasting sense you know the whole no stage really sways. Like you know but. It's still pretty good. To see you. Thank you very much. Thank you can do it at. The top of the water. Come on you have it. Let's take a picture with her. OK. I'm going to want to make. Sure. That no one should ever. Wonder. How long you've gone. It's a busy day.
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bye bye. Bye. All this is for me. Thank you very much. I. What you mean I get see it. That's. Beautiful. Thank you. So don't. Get me in trouble. You got me you got me so it is a word in situations like. This one my kids dance and they like. To. Get away. Oh I got
the whole picture of that we're doing now in that album and repeated in that album. This. Looks. Anyway. He's. Going to. Be. So. Much. Fun. Not that's not right. We put this on and when to make the print all dark. Make it darker. I'm. About to. Sell this album.
Are there problems involved in. Conducting. Another. Extra. Anywhere else going on for. You're such
a tradition. I'm very honest along that path. What are you going to change. A lot of flowers. That's a very good. Morning. I'm ready to call. You're welcome you have a match like that is very excited for us to be like I hope to show you a lot of pretty and charming things I love so you shall have some lunch but you shall enhance all the good things that we do have. Here in that just in Mississippi. Are you ready for an exciting day with sunshine sunshine. We appreciate. It. Right here. Right here next to the my street. I don't know for sure. He's been waiting for you to go there now. You people can go right ahead and start. And I'm going to take care.
Get the others out here. Oh. Wait. Mr. Peter these. Are things you lost 20 years. Only should we reach timeservers old boys. I'm such a lucky man. Looks. Like. The Pentagon is getting hungry. A vacation is approaching. It is of course. That's the mayor of Detroit. Thank you very much. I'd like to just give you this is a taking home ownership. Yes. I'm coming to that just. Right. You. Know I really know you poor old lady.
Come on out. Yes. Let's just say it outside. Is. Coming in. Once. We. Get it all these is that is a good way to put in thousands. You know. I thought you know what. We're appreciative should his emphasis go for twenty five years the condition the golf courses they do. This throws up. All kinds of stuff. Greenbury remembering that Robin would give you that out that way even when you stopped playing it because
it will figure out. What is happening. So with all. The medals of freedom you're about to receive the highest civilian honor. That our country can bestow. Your outstanding accomplishments have made our lives better. And set stirring examples for others to follow. Otherwise honor you can get a copy of that beautiful love. What do you think you've gotten thousands. No. No. I live about two hundred and fifty years old.
My wife made it. Back. Up there. You were sitting in the moment. Chatting with each other. All right. We're looking at each other. I. Don't have any. Time. I. Thought. It. Was raining. Like. Many reports that you're. Trying. To look very good. How do you feel. I feel fine. Hi. Good morning. I'm back. In Canada. And I'm in. The hospital now. I have to come and bring me back.
I the to pop down here to the heart with you are one of these days I like my. Doctor. A. Bar. Producing. Life. Transforming like. 300. Warning. All right.
Where do you want to update your calendar first before we do anything else. The most important thing but we'll do it. Yes. Might good. Thing. Perhaps we keep getting along well. Yes I think. And then we have to keep it in the back of the pub. That was a great night. I connected it to the next night. We thought that was the Beaugard barbecue. What else are you going to do that day. Nothing. I mean you use me now on the 18th you get a four hour recording session London Records. Hello how are you. Funny how are you. Fine thank you. Pretty warm out
there. All right. Man. You sleep well. I've got a list. Yes this is what we've got out here including parts where you don't have any love for that or that. How do we know. Maybe we got him down. Yes. Well Klowns is very popular and Evergreen is very popular all. The time you have. If we are trying to recast. The. Page.
We would like to it up a 200 page one. Exactly. And I would also suggest that you. When you. Get up from. The last quarter and. That. Many. Times. Not long. Can you hear me. Yeah we got to move on this. And talk about where the last note I got it up. And move around with me. All right let's pick it up. Here. Yes the drama is not to ever do it. You have good reason. Take it easy. Easy. OK. So I think we should take one other and see what happens. Let me turn around I can't see the light at all. To move.
It Around. All right I'll help. You out. Stand by everybody. It's go crazy and it's take. Is. That. The effects. Of. The rhythm. I.
Always. Think. This place is here before. Page 17 and the bells are getting too loud here. I want to do lot better than all of these play too loud. You see the continuation of and we've been asking you about. I think. I. You.
Don't. I think that's a good thing. Maybe we could get more good ones. Yes. Yes. That's part of what that's the forty two point forty five. That's no problem. All right Simon. You. Got a dishwasher.
That's right. Somebody paid for mine. That's what I want. To. Do. That's right. OK. We would like you to begin please listen. Strange we found a penny small. Market that shouldn't be heard of at all. Yes.
Yes. Yes. Yes yes. Although I do have a burrito. OK. I. Join you Yorkton 43. I always like. My car.
Everyone's. Running. Battles with them. One thing I'll say about him he never holds a grudge. Well. With the orchestra this will be the end of my sixth season. Can. You make sense of humor for one thing. Is it really original. Everybody knows. They treat him like. They would treat a fan they they are close to him. You sort of he's such a godlike figure that you think that everything you say would be right and everything he would do would be the right but he's turned into a human being. Sort of a curious thing. To. It's the nature of the of the affair I guess you you don't like the boss. But. She was also I think the men in the office to realize that this is a very unique
situation the box and is a very unique person. You started as one of us in the orchestra. He is still considered by the by the players as sort of a colleague. Rather than a task master or a boss. You want an honest answer that of course some of the players unfortunately do look down their noses. We sort of relax a little bit here and we play every single night in the week. Someone is as dumb as the Pops feed us concentration camp. They are really not looking down their noses at Arthur. They're looking down their noses probably at the Pops. The musicians I say to that if they didn't have it they would really miss it. What happens is they get in the pops and they find that playing Strauss waltzes with one foot on the beach and.
So. On. And. It's. Kind of remarkable. He's always had. Just one of the few conductors. That. That. Tune. An orchestra. Right. Wild. Wild. Wild. Play and I mean if it's not ready. To. Happen. And. Very. Few will go for most the must stop and say let me. Listen. You know. And then. You fix it. I'll tell you what to do. Right. Well. I think that he's probably as surprised as
anybody that it's it's been so successful. Like the whole thing. Just go it doesn't change it's. Always the same. He has. Let. Small. Things bother. Him. He was quite caught up in the South you know in the old days. If we don't do well. It doesn't upset him to compare his passions. Unfortunately sometimes we carry it too far and that's when he gets all upset too. But that doesn't stop him. He could get mad as a wet hen and ten minutes later. Wango.
Came back. You. Had to do one day before yesterday from we're back. With. London. Along. To. Another. Guy. So. You know. I didn't. Really. Like. What else can we do. Nothing. Nothing. Sleep for like. Half. The. Time. No.
I. Actually don't. Know. You. Reach a point where you don't know whether you can go wrong. Does it have to be either. Well. It does in my case. I get into the. Into the. Rotation all that you know I just couldn't do this now and next week doing other concepts. Me.
So. Yeah well. All has to. A. Place. Yeah. That's a comfortable paycheck. Well I mean naturally you have to. Everybody slows down as you get older. I mean just the same I hate to admit it's. An. Improbable thing how I should. Brace. Myself. A couple of weeks. Because I feel better because I accept the law. And. I. Woke up at 5:30 and I woke up at 10 minutes past 10. And that shows you you wish me. Because I took a little. Sleep eating. Which I don't like you with. So. Are you giving serious thought to changing your lifestyle. By not doing so much. Well my mom tried to fly obvious
the obvious I have to. Just kind of. Go on like. A. Lot of the medicine. Is about. We love. To. Do. That. We don't do well. With. Kids who want to. Fly. So. They wouldn't eat all day. But it. Has been. Bouncing. Around. Since July 4. Kerry. Kerry. So. It. Is what's
going. On. Right now. One on one I got at all hours when you're in the otherwise. My situation I'll be able to control this. Box. Even single. I said this looks like a better question. All the cops here are. Saying. I don't see anything you know. Cause. Everybody can live. On. The beach.
Oh. My goodness. I. Can't. That's all. Right. Is that right about now. I. Would. Like. Lifetime no know. Look up here on. The last part. Sounds. Like the very good. Look. At. How we were up here is. That it.
Was. Going. To kill his daughter. Mary. Couldn't quite run down. The. Street. Over here and take a look at. This. Thing. I want to see our look at the crowd here. Oh you. Oh my God. Look. Fantastic. Unbelievable. Two hours to go. No no. No.
No. I never dreamed. That it will rain. Or shine. Wow. Wow wow. Wow. I'm going to run for mayor.
Police in D.C. has asked me to go to court and still pouring in. It's. A. Good time. Thank you. Thank. You. All right. I. Just have. Every. Day.
Right. On through.
On.
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- Series
- Evening At Pops
- Episode Number
- 1702
- Contributing Organization
- WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/15-c53dz0353j
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Originally aired as a special in 1979, repeated on Evening At Pops in 1994. This program marks the centennial of legendary conductor Arthur Fiedler's birth with an encore presentation of "Arthur Fiedler: Just Call Me Maestro." This award-winning documentary profiles "Mr. Pops," who gave shape to the Boston Pops Orchestra and brought it national attention during his 50-year tenure as its conductor.
- Date
- 1979-03-18
- Topics
- Music
- Subjects
- Boston Pops Orchestra. Arthur Fiedler legacy; Fourth of July; Fiedler, Arthur, 1894-1979; Boston Pops Orchestra
- Rights
- Rights Note:,Rights:,Rights Credit:WGBH Educational Foundation,Rights Type:,Rights Coverage:,Rights Holder:WGBH Educational Foundation
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:59:59
- Credits
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Publisher: WGBH Educational Foundation
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WGBH
Identifier: 1dcb019dfa9135b843ca346d7599f30fb6553142 (ArtesiaDAM UOI_ID)
Format: video/quicktime
Color: Color
Duration: 00:00:00
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- Chicago: “Evening At Pops; Arthur Fiedler: Just Call Me Maestro; 1702,” 1979-03-18, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 17, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-c53dz0353j.
- MLA: “Evening At Pops; Arthur Fiedler: Just Call Me Maestro; 1702.” 1979-03-18. WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 17, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-c53dz0353j>.
- APA: Evening At Pops; Arthur Fiedler: Just Call Me Maestro; 1702. Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-c53dz0353j