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This Halloween, the Boston Pops will perform the original score of the classic Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho in sync with the film on screen at Symphony Hall. DigBoston caught up with Pops conductor and musical director Keith Lockhart ahead of this very special event.
Why did you decide ...
Conductor Keith Lockhart has now been at the podium for almost half of those 40 years, and under his leadership the Pops’ national recognition has soared. This year, in addition to its performances at Symphony Hall, its A Pops Holiday Party special returns to PBS stations across the country.
I actually can’t believe the Boston Symphony is putting on this opera in concert. It’s so massive. The cast, everything about it.
It's going to be a good season.
What to do and where to do it.
What to do and where to do it.
There are a couple hundred performing arts organizations in the area, and while we’d like to comb through the fine print of each and spotlight the ways to make them all accessible, well, we’d need a bigger boat. We also know you don’t have the attention ...
If you're a student who blew through your semester’s savings by the end of September, someone who hands over each paycheck directly to their landlord, or someone busy working to find work, sneezing next to one of greater Boston's many arts institutions can feel like an overdraft threat to your bank account. That should’t be the case, and in many instances, it’s not.
They already have
It all started with a desperate call in 2011: could he make it to Carnagie Hall on short notice and serve as the emergency replacement for Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor James Levine? Indeed, he could, and the rest is history. Now, over a year after his appointment was announced, Andris Nelsons ...
