Boston Pops

That's, that's-

Was it the Boston Pops?

I think so.

Greenville Pops?

And, and Drew, this is actually gonna come back up my way on the, uh, October 30th and 31st.

This is when Keith Lockhart, uh, the conductor of the Boston Pops, is supposed to pick up a baton and, uh, lead two separate performances of Coco Live to Film.

Uh, so gotta see if I can get tickets to that.

Speaking of Michael Giacchino, did you see what he's doing on Halloween night, Jim?

I, I, I, uh, I met my, my girlfriend at the time, and then I, I asked her to marry me, and, um, uh, we were in Boston.

Uh, the, The Levies were playing with the Boston Pops at the Boston Symphony, and, you know, everything's, everything's new and fresh and all roses.

And we walked into a store.

It was kind of a...

And that was a tune from Loek Bredlies with the unlikely name of "All the Regrets." Here's a tune familiar to 4ZA's early morning listeners from the 1960s.

It's Leroy Anderson's "Bugler's Holiday," and it is played by the Boston Pops Orchestra.

[classical music] That was the Boston Pops Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fiedler with Leroy Anderson's "Bugler's Holiday." Now for a tune on the organ.

Frederick Homan plays for us "We Just Takata in F."[organ music] Wieders staccato in F was played by Frederick Homan.

Here's James Last's Orchestra, and they play for us Tchaikovsky's Romance.[instrumental music] You're with Radio Southland on 96.4 FM, and it's light, bright, and classical.

And for his premiere, the celebrated Maestro Toscanini will present a special hour and a half performance of Verdi's Requiem.

And beginning next Monday, you can hear the first in a new series by the Boston Pops Orchestra.

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Here it is, Sam, all typed up.

I was, I'm from a musical family and very young, I was listening to classical records and loving Fantasia and just absorbing it all.

and one day randomly my mother got me a tape cassette of this album called kids stuff which included various excerpts from performances that john williams had done with the boston symphony or the boston pops in the 1980s or so like a compilation album and none of the excerpts on there were from movies that i actually had ever seen pink panther Star Wars, E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I knew of their existence.

What kid growing up in the 80s isn't, but nevertheless, it was a music-first experience for me.

No single person who brought film music into respectable society, but he does play an outsized role.

Part of it is.

When he was handed the reins of the Boston Pops, he was able to program a lot of film music, his own and other people's, and raise the profile of it as an art form and really present it at the peak of professional virtuosity.

The nature of his music, which is more closely related to these, these safe genres of orchestral music, opera and tone poems and symphonies.