Three weeks ago 45 members of Boston’s Symphony Orchestra began giving experimental, free, outdoor concerts on the Charles River Basin Esplanade (TIME, July 15). Last week the experiment could no ...

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 his ...

Chicagoans will be treated to a potpourri of classical and popular music this weekend when Newton Wayland, the inventive conductor of the Oakland Symphony, joins Chicago composer and blues pianist ...

Composed for orchestra, The Irish Suite was completed in June, 1947. It was commissioned by the Eire Society of Boston for a Boston Pops concert on June 6, 1947 conducted by Arthur Fiedler. The Irish ...

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ANTHONY: THE HATCH SHELL, CENTER PLACE -- CENTERPIECE OF THE ESPLANADE AND THE SITE OF THE JULY 4 CELEBRATION. OPPOSITE THE SHELL, THE ICONIC SCULPTURE OF ARTHUR FIEDLER WHOSE FIFTY-YEAR RAIN MADE THE ...

Announcer: Once again the Symphony Hall doors are open for an Evening at Pops with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops orchestra. Tonight an all-American program, with special guest Leroy Anderson.

Fiedler is the author of an affectionately critical memoir of her father Arthur Fiedler of Boston Pops fame, and since she spent 15 years at the Met as its press representative, she is well placed to ...

In the 1920s, a violinist in the Boston Symphony wanted to bring the orchestra to the people of Boston. His name was Arthur Fiedler, and he was the man with the genius idea to bring the Boston Pops to ...

The Esplanade Association, the nonprofit that manages the 3.3-mile Charles River Esplanade in Boston, has unveiled a monumental tribute: a 17-foot-wide replica hockey helmet atop the Arthur Fiedler ...