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The Boston Pops Orchestra was founded in 1885 as a subsection of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra (BSO), founded four years earlier. Careful examination
of the rosters of ?Pops" or ?Festival" orchestras, which are associated
with a co-resident symphony orchestra in the same community, shows that the
principal players of a ?Pops" ensemble usually hold the post of assistant
or associate principal of the ?parent" ensemble. In general parlance, the
Boston Pops is described as: ?The Boston Symphony minus the first-chair
players." This ?elite core? of BSO musicians constitute a separate
subsection of the BSO, and perform alongside the Pops as the Boston
Symphony Chamber Players, a 12-member ensemble founded in 1964. These
arrangements, and a similar one with the Tanglewood Festival provide
year-round employment for the musicians. Also played in their own concerts
to this day.
Other cities have founded their own "pops" orchestras, but the Boston Pops
remains the most
Latin Album
Latin Album
Pops Stoppers: Greatest Hits of the Boston Pops Orchestra
On Stage
America the Beautiful
The Songbooks: With a Song in My Heart/Lucky to Be Me
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