The Boston Pops are sharing how they prepare for their busiest season of the year, the holidays. The grueling schedule at times calls for three shows a day. Considering the endurance and precision required, making music is truly a physical feat for the beloved orchestra. Maestro Keith Lockhart compares it to being part of a major league baseball team. Read more
While there are a bevy of haunting happenings to take part in this holiday weekend, few are as inventively interesting as Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, a collaboration between the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and Berklee College of Music, taking place Friday night at Boston Symphony Hall. The classic 1922 F.W. Murnau German silent film is notorious for a number of things, one of them being the fact that the original score, composed by Hans Erdmann, has for the most part been lost. […]
“Nosferatu” comes alive What’s the scariest movie score? John Williams’ relentless “Jaws” theme? Mike Oldfield’s haunting “Tubular Bells” used in “The Exorcist”? How about the music from “Nosferatu”? If you can’t recall “Nosferatu’s” score, that’s because the silent film’s music was lost decades ago. But Berklee College of Music and the Boston Pops have teamed to present F. W. Murnau’s 1922 vampire epic with a new score. On Oct. 30 at Symphony Hall, Pops conductor Keith Lockhart will lead the […]
Read the article at wgbhnews.org. Two of the greatest artists in this city, usually thought of as soloists but appearing tonight, for the first time ever in an interview as a duo. Andris Nelsons (@andris_nelsons) hails from Riva, Latvia, and after one year as the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he recently extended that contract through the year 2022. And Keith Lockhart (@KeithLockhart) is celebrating a 20th anniversary at the helm of The Boston Pops. Nelsons and Lockhart joked about Nelsons’ new role, as […]
Read the full article at itemlive.com North Shore Community College and Keith Lockhart have something in common, and it is a happy confluence of these events that will bring the Boston Pops conductor to the Lynn Auditorium next month. Both are celebrating milestone anniversaries. North Shore is observing its 50th this year, and Lockhart is marking his 20th as conductor of the Pops. “I’m not a big anniversary person,” Lockhart said. “I don’t even like to celebrate birthdays. But everyone […]
Read the full article at broadwayworld.com Vienna, the music capital of the world, will once again be in the spotlight with the Hollywood in Vienna gala, taking place at the historic Vienna Concert Hall on October 16, 2015. Many Hollywood & Broadway Stars will attend and perform at the red-carpet event. Apart from Oscar-nominated and Grammy-winning Guest of Honor James Newton Howard (“The Hunger Games”, “Maleficent”, ‘The Dark Knight”), Hollywood in Vienna is excited to welcome composer Richard Bell (Stephen King‘s “IT”) […]
Read the full article at capecod.com Maestro Keith Lockhart led the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra in a crowd-pleasing performance Sunday night at the 30th Annual Pops By the Sea Concert on the Hyannis Village Green. The show included favorites that have become part of the three-decade summer tradition, including songs from Oklahoma and Richard Rodgers Waltzes. After the opening number, Lockhart greeted the crowd with a reference to the unseasonably cool weather that settled over Cape Cod during the day. “On […]
Read the full article at transylvaniatimes.com Keith Lockhart is best known as conductor of the world famous Boston Pops, but Brevard and the Brevard Music Center hold a special place in Lockhart’s life. His grandfather was a professor at Brevard College and Lockhart used to visit his grandparents at their home on Franklin Street during the summer. “I grew up spending big chunks of my summers here even though I wasn’t at the music center,” said Lockhart. That local connection led to […]
John Williams’ Film Night, one of the most eagerly-anticipated evenings of the Tanglewood Season, takes place on Saturday, August 22. Conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops will be joined by guest conductor David Newman for what has become one of the signature events of the Tanglewood season. For tickets and more information please visit tanglewood.org.
Read the article at broadwayworld.com. Marking the start of the 40th Anniversary celebrations of The Olivier Awards in 2016, Society of London Theatrehas today announced The Oliviers In Concert. The special concert, in partnership with BBC Radio 3 and the BBC Concert Orchestra, will take place on Monday 25 January 2016 at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall. The evening will feature a host of West End stars performing a selection of songs from celebrated stage musicals. The concert will also […]
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