Arthur Fiedler knew he had to do something drastic for the 1974 Fourth of July Boston Pops concert. He would need to make all hell break loose.. People were losing interest in the free summer ...

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Learn about Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops: The Ultimate Pops Christmas Party! - Compilation of two previously released albums: the original 1959 Pops Christmas Party in RCA Living Stereo; and ...

The jacket in question bore the title Promenaden Konzert Nr. 1 — Arthur Fiedler und das Boston Pops Orchestra. The man who stared at it in pleased surprise was Arthur Fiedler himself.

When Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart asked the University of Connecticut to provide a guest narrator to read "A Visit From St. Nicholas" during a 2014 holiday concert at the school, he was ...

So fleeting is fame that today there are fewer and fewer people who remember Arthur Fiedler, the late conductor of the Boston Pops, who died on July 10, 1979. Dec. 17 is the 120th anniversary of ...

In 1974, Arthur Fiedler led the Boston Pops in its first Fourth of July celebration on the Esplanade, playing a rousing “1812 Overture’’ as fireworks illuminated the Boston skyline.

The Fiedler Phenomenon. When a 35-year-old viola player from the Boston Symphony, Arthur Fiedler, was hired to conduct the Pops in 1930, he turned it from a local phenomenon to a national icon.

BOSTON (AP) – Even the late conductor of the Boston Pops is celebrating the Boston Red Sox victory over the New York Yankees in the AL Division Series. The nonprofit Esplanade Association and… ...

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That combination of the Boston Pops and fireworks – was an idea from David Mugar. Fifty years ago, he partnered with renown pops conductor Arthur Fiedler to create the event we know today. A ...