WPLN News Archive; 05 Boston Pops Keith Lockhart (Rebecca) 1 14 99; News Archive 1/8/99-2/5/99

when henry leave taking this town of the boston symphony orchestra and at eighty he realized half of his musical dream for the city he wanted boston the have an outstanding orchestra but he also went to prison concerts a wider five years later on july the eleventh nineteen eighty five that dream was fulfilled when the boston pops give their first public performance their program featured ally classical music and jews from current hits of musical theater in other words a concert much like the ones given by the boston pops today keith lockart is in his fourth year is the twentieth conductor of the boston pops and he is well aware of his place in the orchestra's history that starts says doctors who are all overshadowed by a person and arthur fiedler ever stepped on the podium and nineteen thirty and made everybody immediately forget about the seventeen conductors who have come before him arthur had an amazing fifty year run with iraq's petroleum unheard of tenure for a conductor and he did so much to make the orchestra through elevated beyond a regional arts organization too there are

some interesting parallels between arthur fiedler and keith lockart both were thirty five years old when i began leading the orchestra both are or were handsome charismatic man who really know how to please an audience and lockhart hopes to revive several of fiedler's traditions including commissioning new works for the pops like dan welch or spa monday which la carte premier of last year we've just been trying to restart the boston pops commissioning program of the new york city used to be known for creating new pieces for the repertory is that particularly in the light classical vein we have so many pieces that were the core of refugees repertory that we're for to as like classical music and we don't invest much more of it anymore but to write music that has artistic integrity and narrative but is accessible of the kind of music that you come away on the first year ago and i really really like that was something that the party should be behind and dance was our first commission during my tenure and hopefully not the last on a longshot then asked what sort of peace we wanted

and i said a peaceful don't mean that we don't always have to start of this with festive overture or candied so if it got shared he wrote something that is not i don't think beholden to either of those two pieces but just as exciting and delta the metal and virtuosity but in the fifty years arthur fiedler was its conductor boston pops made literally thousands of recordings that's another tradition keith lockhart is continuing and the latest celtic album has just been nominated for it was a breakthrough for us the way to a direction that we may be violent in the future we really want to do something of a box that no other organization could crossover album and the true sense of the word we have on one hand music by mendelssohn the hebrides overture from eighteen twenty nine at thirty and really straight down the little particles and find peace and evidently of music frozen river

dance movies like great traditional irish folk music you even have a rock tune by irish margaret anderson absolutely a wide range of musical styles under one roof several selections from the celtic album will be on course when keith lockhart of the boston pops perform in murfreesboro this saturday evening than vultures the monterey isn't available on cd yet but it is on the program in fact this concert is vintage pop scale very wide range on everything in from broadway to movie music to american classical music copeland bernstein to i think actually omits were also performing a little all this we thought it would be appropriate excuse me i all says keith lockhart says it's one of their most popular piece is actually complaints they've all of the country and over all over the world it was the beginning of our or japan and korea toured the year before work

you haven't heard anything you've heard forty five hundred current and sort of curious singing i can't tell on the love with you at the same time with an interesting answer keith lockhart conductor of the boston pops which performs this saturday evening at eight at murphy's center at middle tennessee state university and murfreesboro ticketmaster has tickets for national public radio i'm rebecca bain