Fifty years ago, this holiday season, Arthur Fiedler started Holiday Pops with three concerts, dubbing it “A Pops Christmas Party.” This season, Pops conductor Keith Lockhart will conduct over 40 Holiday Pops concerts in Boston’s Symphony Hall, plus runout concerts in five New England venues, including Worcester’s Hanover Theater on Saturday, Dec. 2 at 8 […]
Holiday Pops was first introduced on December 21, 1973, under the name “A Pops Christmas Party.” Over the decades, the series has become more inclusive with diversified programming and grown from just three concerts to 39 at Symphony Hall.
The Pops conductor says, "It's a great time to make music." There's plenty in store, with a packed calendar of 44 performances in four New England states over 24 days, beginning Friday.
In normal times, the Boston Pops, also known as âAmericaâs Orchestra,â would be nearing the end of its nearly monthlong, annual Holiday Pops season at the cityâs Symphony Hall, with at least 40 performances attracting nearly 100,000 concertgoers.
But, this December, when nothing is normal, Pops conductor Keith Lockhart, in his 26th season with the orchestra, presides over an ambitious, highly produced 2020 Boston Pops Holiday Concert stream, available until Jan. 9 for a $30 ticket at bso.org/Now.
It includes several segments filmed at Fenway Park in October with the surreal sight of masked players in sunglasses, as well as an encore archival classic from a previous season featuring the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in a fanciful arrangement of âTwelve Days of Christmas.â