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  Arthur Fiedler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arthur Fiedler (December 17, 1894 – July 10, 1979) was the long-time conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, a symphony orchestra that specialized in popular music.
He was appointed the eighteenth conductor of the Boston Pops in 1930, a position he held for a half-century.
Fiedler was also associated with the San Francisco Pops Orchestra for 26 summers, and conducted many other orchestras throughout the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthur_Fiedler   (409 words)

  
 Evening at Pops 2004: Biographies: Arthur Fiedler
Arthur and the Boston Pops brought music lovers from all over the country and the world to Symphony Hall for a remarkable 50 years.
Fiedler conducted the Pops for five seasons longer than all of his seventeen predecessors combined, and through his originality, his warm and sometimes mysterious stage presence, and his inimitable style, the distinguished white-haired gentleman on the podium became one of Boston's best-known, best-loved citizens.
He was appointed the eighteenth conductor of the Boston Pops in 1930.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pops/background/bios/fiedler.html   (543 words)

  
 San Francisco Symphony Orchestra - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
San Francisco, California, located in one of the world's most beautiful bays, exploded in population during the 1849 Gold Rush.
After the devastating earthquake of 1906, civic leaders decided to establish a permanent Orchestra; the San Francisco Symphony gave its first concert in December, 1911, with the composer Henry Hadley at the podium.
In 1935 the citizens of San Francisco ratified an amendment to the city charter establishing municipal funding for the Symphony, with the stipulation that the orchestra would establish a series of municipal concerts.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,488904,00.html   (574 words)

  
 Peninsula Pops Orchestra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Pops Experience is all about a fun-filled afternoon or evening of laughs, giggles, smiles and sighs.
Pops Performances are designed to leave you with a light heart and a big smile, your toes tapping and fingers snapping.
The Peninsula Pops Orchestras' more than 50 musicians, featured singers and artists perform a lively show with selections from the full realm of the Popular Music Repertoire - the Music of Stage and Screen: Broadway Musicals, Television, Movies, Jazz, Rock, Light Classics, and Big Band.
www.peninsulapops.org /homepage.html   (204 words)

  
 Tuba Jam: Notes & Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bill Maginnis is a long time resident of San Francisco, who has the reputation of "being there with the right thing at the right time".
Dix Bruce is probably one of the San Francisco Bay areas busiest guitarists - he is capable of working in a wide variety of musical styles.
In 1967 he returned to San Francisco as principal tubist with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and with the San Francisco Pops Orchestra.
www.counterpoint-music.com /Locals/douty.bio.html   (506 words)

  
 University of Redlands - Francisco Castillo
Francisco Castillo earned his M.M. in oboe performance from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor and Licenciatura in oboe, composition and orchestra conducting from the University of Costa Rica.
As an oboist, Francisco was a prize winner at the 34th Chamber Music Competition in Colmar, France, with the USC Graduate Woodwind Quintet and also won the first William Criss Memorial Award at USC in 1985.
Francisco is principal oboist with the Redlands Symphony, California Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Pasadena Pops Orchestra.
www.redlands.edu /Francisco_Castillo.xml   (535 words)

  
 SFAC : Programs
The San Francisco Arts Commission was established in the Charter of the City and County of San Francisco in 1932 to ensure that the arts would be incorporated into the civic infrastructure for the City’s residents.
The San Francisco WritersCorps, placing writers in communities where youth live, work, and go to school, is administered by the Community Arts and Education program.
San Francisco’s street artists provide residents and visitors with a colorful outdoor marketplace that contributes to the economic life of the city.
www.sfartscommission.org /programs   (428 words)

  
 San Francisco Commission on the Status of Women: Arts Commission
The Charter of the City and County of San Francisco established the department in 1932 to ensure that the arts would be incorporated into civic infrastructure for the City's residents.
In April 1998, the City and County of San Francisco passed an ordinance (Chapter 12K of the Administrative Code) to implement locally the Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
The San Francisco Arts Commission has worked with the CEDAW Task Force through the Department on the Status of Women (DOSW) for a year preparing a "gender analysis" of its budget, services, and employment practices.
www.ci.sf.ca.us /site/cosw_page.asp?id=10861   (3480 words)

  
 Peninsula Pops Orchestra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Peninsula Pops Orchestra has only one goal and that is to bring the best, most entertaining pops shows to the San Francisco Bay Area.
This single-minded focus is unique in Northern California with the PPO being the only exclusively pops orchestra in existence here.
The Pops also draws from those in business and teaching with a diverse amalgamation of scientists, educators, engineers, marketing, technology leaders and other highly creative individuals.
www.peninsulapops.org /music.html   (181 words)

  
 Montgomery County News, Walden Happenings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
San Francisco based Landsberg and Yount have emerged as one of the nation's most popular touring "pops" attractions.
Involved in duo piano performances since 1978, after their first meeting in San Francisco at a Yamaha piano dealership, the two have combined their interests in composing and arranging with specialized techniques to become, perhaps, the most popular piano duo team since Ferrante and Teicher.
America's #1 Pops Piano Duo is a popular attraction on the corporate circuit performing at banquets, conventions and special events.
www.montgomerycountynews.net /walden1-10-2001.htm   (1384 words)

  
 Evening at Pops 2004: About the Pops
Lockhart is only the third conductor to lead the orchestra since 1930, when Arthur Fiedler began his unprecedented 50 years as conductor of the orchestra.
In February 2002, he led the Boston Pops in the pregame show of Super Bowl XXXVI at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, marking the first time an orchestra was featured in performance during a Super Bowl.
Lockhart came to the Boston Pops from Cincinnati, where he served as associate conductor of both the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops orchestras.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pops/about/lockhart.html   (586 words)

  
 CCSF Faculty Directory: Music Department
She is on the Board of Directors of Chanticleer and the Palo Alto YWCA and a member of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus.
He is a percussionist with the San Francisco Symphony and Ballet and has performed at the Curran Theatre and Boston Pops.
He has performed with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, the Bay Chamber Symphony, the Classical Philharmonic and the San Francisco Conservatory's Chamber Orchestra and New Music Ensemble.
www.ccsf.edu /Info/Faculty_In_Review/music.html   (3014 words)

  
 Arthur Fiedler: By Request - Classical Music
Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops brought together music lovers from all over the country, and the world, to Symphony Hall for a remarkable 50 years.
Fielder conducted the Pops for five seasons longer than all of his seventeen predecessors combined, and through his originality, his warm and sometimes mysterious stage presence, not to mention his inimitable style, the distinguished white-haired gentleman on the podium became one of Boston´s best-known, best-loved citizens.
He was schooled at the Prince Grammar School and the Boston Latin School until his father retired from the orchestra and took the family back to Austria.
www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art985.asp   (563 words)

  
 Metroactive Music | San Francisco's American Festival
ON JUNE 14, the San Francisco Symphony's An American Festival began its first of three weekends at Davies Hall with all the ceremony and hoopla of a Super Bowl victory bash.
The orchestra offered a warm reading that was not without punch when the going got rough.
The orchestra responded brilliantly, accommodating the score's collages of traditional and original melodies with tight blends and rhythmic precision.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/06.27.96/sfsymphony-9626.html   (1234 words)

  
 San Francisco Bach Choir: Musicians
The San Francisco Bach Choir also performs with many renowned vocal soloists and instrumentalists, as well as with its own orchestra and chamber consort (managed by John Thiessen) selected from internationally acclaimed instrumentalists.
Bass John Kendall Bailey is the Founder and Music Director of the Berkeley Lyric Opera, the Associate Conductor of the San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, and the Chorus Master of the Festival Opera of Walnut Creek.
He is a featured soloist and regular member of the American Bach Soloists; a member of the Philharmonia Baroque Chorale; and a member of the acclaimed Schola Cantorum of the National Shrine of St. Francis, a 12-voice ensemble specializing in a repertory of Gregorian chant and Renaissance style liturgies.
www.sfbach.org /musicians/guestartists2003.html   (3140 words)

  
 Wedding Bands San Francisco, Wedding Music San Francisco
Mori is a San Francisco Bay Area wedding guitarist featuring solo guitar and duos or trios with flute/saxophone and cello.
Jay is a San Francisco Bay Area wedding guitarist who plays classical standards, and his own compositions in the styles of Spanish Romance, Classical, and Jazz.
Performing in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1978, Tom Shaw is an exceptional pianist who plays outstanding piano.
www.mybayareawedding.com /categories/classical   (1152 words)

  
 Henry Shweid -- concert violinist
Shweid, who was born in Canada and raised in San Francisco, performed with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra from 1941 until 1969.
Shweid also was a member of the San Francisco Pops Orchestra, the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and the Bohemian Club Orchestra.
He and Stern were neighbors growing up in San Francisco's Richmond District.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/07/30/BA100004.DTL&type=printable   (363 words)

  
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Brian has performed with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Louis Bellson Orchestra, Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, the New York City Ballet, the New York Voices, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Artie Shaw Orchestra, and the New Xavier Cugat Orchestra.
Wayne has played with the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, The Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra, The Chico O' Farrill Latin Jazz Band and is currently a member of the The Ray Charles Touring Band as well a member of the Chuck Clark Little Big Band.
She was the featured soprano with the 50 piece orchestra in their "From Hollywood to Broadway " concert at the PNC Bank Arts Center.
www.blvdmusic.com /Personnel.htm   (1820 words)

  
 The Pops go into the record business - The Boston Globe
During the Pops' just completed two-week tour, he would stay in the hall late, making sure to sign copies.
In 2002, the San Francisco Symphony, led by Michael Tilson Thomas, embarked on a plan to release a total of nine Mahler symphonies.
In fact, in November, when the Pops reported its first week of sales to Nielsen SoundScan, the national organization that charts album sales asked for more documentation before filing the numbers.
www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/12/19/the_pops_go_into_the_record_business   (1387 words)

  
 Members of the Orchestra
He joined the San Francisco Symphony in 1993 and currently holds the second Trombone position.
Welcomer teaches the Trombone both privately and at the San Francisco Conservatory on a part-time basis.
He is also a founding member of the Bay Brass, San Francisco's large brass ensemble and is a partner with fellow Orchestra member, Mark Lawrence (Principal Trombone), in the company MarcoPaulo Publishing, which sells trombone music in stores as well as on-line.
www.sfsymphony.org /templates/artist.asp?nodeid=358&callid=65&roleid=12   (218 words)

  
 Musicalonline: Orchestra
Banyule Orchestras Australia - consists of the Heidelberg Symphony Orchestra, Robertson Youth Orchestra and the Junior Strings of Banyule.
Boston Modern Orchestra Project - BMOP is a professional orchestra that performs twentieth-century and new music.
New Philharmonia Orchestra of Massachusetts - a musician-run community orchestra for the Western suburbs of Boston.
www.musicalonline.com /orchestra/orchestra.htm   (1363 words)

  
 Orchestras, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Resource Guide
The orchestra has over 60 volunteer musicians who are dedicated to providing quality music at a reasonable cost to the families of Southwest Pennsylvania.
Founded in 1939, the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra is one of the oldest youth orchestras in the country.
The American Symphony Orchestra League is a support and advocacy organization for serving nearly 1,000 member symphony, chamber, youth, and collegiate orchestras of all sizes.
www.carnegielibrary.org /subject/music/orch.html   (761 words)

  
 San Francisco Ballet - Sylvia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The famed dance-maker’s gender-bending, riotous, icon breaking works of the past left audiences totally mystified about the highly touted Sylvia he was to set on the San Francisco Ballet.
The corps cavorted merrily, whether as peasants, demigods or undulating slave girls and the orchestra was ably conducted by Andrew Mogrelia.
Mark Morris and the San Francisco Ballet have roasted it into a delectable confection that audiences will reach for again and again.
www.culturevulture.net /Dance2/SanFranciscoSylvia.htm   (627 words)

  
 San Francisco Guide - Events Calendar
San Francisco’s Magic Theatre continues its season of premieres with the World Premiere of Rebecca Gilman’s THE AMERICAN IN ME, a contemporary social satire that follows the extraordinary efforts of one couple to conceive a child, with some surprising consequences.
This annual " only in San Francisco" event, alway held on the 3rd Thursday of July, is always a crowd pleaser as our world-famous cable car gripmen and -women clang out melodies on a cable car bell and compete for prizes and applause.
San Francisco Gem and Mineral Society presents its 46th annual show, this year's theme " Rhapsody in Blue, " featuring award-winning lapidary work, hand-crafted jewelry, faceted gemstones, crystals, carvings, and fossils and mineral specimens from around the world.
sfguide.com /events/scripts/view.cgi?action=view&...   (5250 words)

  
 Camp Faculty
He has been a California Artist-in-Residence in the San Jose Unified School District and served as a clinician, consultant, adjudicator and guest conductor for various distrcit festivals and concert.
He was the conductor of the Santa Cruz Youth Symphony and the Monterey Youth Orchestras.
He has guest conducted the San Jose and Oakland Symphonies, toured as conductor for the “San Francisco Festival Pops” orchestra, and conducted many orchestras around the country.
www.lahondamusiccamp.com /faculty.html   (340 words)

  
 American Symphony Orchestra League::Programming for Pops
McLean was Minnesota Orchestra Marketing Manager, where he had marketing responsibility for pops, presentations and a summer classical music festival.
Rudi Schlegel is the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's Chastain Park Amphitheater and Pops Vice President for Presentations.
She has conducted orchestras in Italy, Japan, Russia, and Ukraine, as well as working with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, Houston Symphony, Florida Philharmonic, and Ojai Festivals Chamber Orchestra.
www.symphony.org /ola/bio/pops.shtml   (434 words)

  
 WGBH/Television/Evening at Pops 99/Program Descriptions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
McDonald has performed with the San Francisco Symphony and taped the Broadway's Leading Ladies concert at Carnegie Hall which broadcast on PBS's Great Performances earlier this season.
Her upcoming appearances include engagements with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, the New World Symphony, and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
For her EVENING AT POPS debut, McDonald will sing works of Harold Arlen, composer of popular American show tunes and musical scores (including "Over the Rainbow" and "Stormy Weather"), and introduce viewers to music of the up-and-coming Broadway composers featured on her hit CD, Way Back to Paradise.
main.wgbh.org /wgbh/pages/pops/schedule/descjul22.html   (178 words)

  
 Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra - Jacksonville, Florida   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Currently in his tenth season as the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s principal pops conductor, Michael Krajewski is known for his imaginative and entertaining programs and his delightfully wry sense of humor.
In addition to his Jacksonville position he is also principal pops conductor of the Houston Symphony, the New Mexico Symphony and the New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra.
He has also held positions as music director of the Detroit Symphony Civic Orchestra, assistant conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and resident conductor of the Florida Symphony Orchestra.
www.jaxsymphony.org /orchestra/conductors/krajewski.html   (224 words)

  
 Chicago Symphony Orchestra - January 5, 2006-2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce that Eugene Izotov has been appointed to the position of Principal Oboe.
Izotov served as Associate Principal Oboe of the San Francisco Symphony from 1996 to 2002, and as Principal Oboe of the Kansas City Symphony from 1995 to 1996.
Izotov currently serves on the wind faculty of the Juilliard School in New York, as well as the Verbier Festival in Switzerland and the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, and he has previously taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the University of California—Berkeley.
www.cso.org /main.taf?p=7,1,2,3,51   (259 words)

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