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Boston Pops Gives The Audience What It Wants
NPR’s Scott Simon talks to Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart about the By Popular Demand program, in which the audience helps pick the music the Pops plays.
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REVIEW: Keith Lockhart Conducting The BBC Concert Orchestra at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts
Read the whole review at dcmetrotheaterarts.com The DC Metro area is blessed with a plethora of very good orchestras and symphonies, all very close by, and all worthwhile. Yet hearing the BBC Concert Orchestra, under the direction of Keith Lockhart, with piano soloist Charlie Albright, is a special treat and not to be missed. The lucky people in the audience at the George Mason Center for the Arts tonight, Friday April 24, 2015, can certainly testify to that, as they watched and […]
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REVIEW: At George Mason, BBC Concert Orchestra is professional, enjoyable
Read the review at washingtonpost.com George Mason University’s fine concert series features an eclectic blend of mainstream and cutting-edge artists. Some of the orchestras it has brought in have been iffy (did they actually exist outside of that tour?), and others have been of lesser quality. But Friday evening, the BBC Concert Orchestra, led by Keith Lockhart, gave a thoroughly professional, enjoyable concert; a shame it wasn’t more fully subscribed.
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Recent Article from The Boston Globe! “After 20 years, Keith Lockhart keeping the Pops youthful”
“He was the talk of the town at 35 — the youthful artist meant to help transform one of the world’s most storied symphonic institutions.” – The Boston Globe
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REVIEW Lockhart, BBC Concert Orchestra make mixed impression in Miami
British orchestras bring a special idiomatic affinity to the music of their native composers and the best moments of the BBC Concert Orchestra’s program Wednesday night at Miami’s Arsht Center found the 64-member ensemble playing works by their compatriots. The orchestra, founded in 1952, is a uniquely English creation. Created for radio work and BBC concerts, the ensemble hovers somewhere between a symphonic and pops orchestra and, at various times, plays both roles.
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REVIEW The BBC and Albright, the year’s best
The concert held on Wednesday 15 by the BBC Concert Orchestra, with Keith Lockhart on the podium and Charlie Albright at the piano, was arguably the best season of Knight Masterworks series Adrienne Arsht Center. The combination of musical excellence with a program for everyone tends to lead to success, the unforgettable enjoyment, Ovation, and tonight was no exception. The audience clapped and cheered up. A well-deserved recognition of excellence and brilliant end of season despite some details such as the defective amplification, which prevented understand what the director said when he took the microphone.
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REVIEW BBC Concert Orchestra/Keith Lockhart with Charlie Albright at Dreyfoos Concert Hall, West Palm Beach – Ravel, Walton, Vaughan Williams & Britten
This appearance, the second of two in West Palm Beach by the versatile BBC Concert Orchestra and principal conductor Keith Lockhart, presented a program of music by Ravel and three English composers, all played with idiomatic charm and warm affection. Charlie Albright, who joins the BBCCO on its tour of fourteen American cities, gave an exciting account of Ravel’s G major Piano Concerto and thrilled the audience with a brilliantly improvised encore.
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REVIEW BBC Concert Orchestra gives afternoon concert of lighter works
Since taking over for John Williams in 1995, Keith Lockhart has been known as the conductor of the Boston Pops.
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REVIEW Magnificent BBC Concert Orchestra ends season’s Regional Arts series
This reviewer’s final assignment was the Regional Arts performance Monday night of the BBC Concert Orchestra under Keith Lockhart. They presented a program of music impossible not to love, and the Kravis audience responded appreciatively.
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Master Classes with Maestro Keith Lockhart: March 9-14, 2015
March 9-14, 2015, Wright State University and CELIA are proud to host Maestro Keith Lockhart at the Dayton campus to hold master classes in conjunction with his guest conducting of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem” with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra at Schuster Center in downtown Dayton.