27778 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August~ 25, 197v LaboJ:.. Amend&. the National Labor Relations o! information identifying any individual's the national flood insurancepmgram as pre­ Act to prnvide. that an_ employee shall not association with the foreign intelligence-op­ requisites !or Federal ap_pro11al of financial be required to join Ol'. support a labor orga­ eration o! the United States. assistance !or acq_uisitlon..or oonstructlon of, nization as a condition of employment if it Js H.R. 14915. July: 28, 1976. Banking, Cur­ or. for lending_ institution. loans- secured by, contrary to his religion. rency and Housing. .Amends- the Flood DJsas­ any hullding, mobile home, <m personal prop­ H.R. 1491.4. July 28, 1976. Judiciary. sets ter Protection. Act of 1973 to eliminat&flood erty located or to be located in an area hav­ forth penalties for unauthorized disclosure insurance and community participation in ing special flood hazards. EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS MASSACHUSETTS IS PROUD OF aged musical program offering nothing too larity. They represent a surefire source of ARTHUR FIEDLER weighty or avantgarde-plays a big part 1n income.. that helps offset sizable losses in the p_erennial popularity of the Boston Pops other parts of the organization. The Boston concerts. During the Spring and summer Symphony Orchestra itself, which must un­ HON. JAMES A. BURKE months here. the sedate Symphony Hall 1s derwrite costly top talent and numerous re­ transformed 1n Mr. Morris's words, into a hearsals, and the Berkshire lll£U.sic Center, a OF li4ASSACHUSE'l'TS "magical garden," and the 105-member school for musicians at the orchestra's sum­ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Boston Symphony Orchestra sheds its 12 mer home in Tanglewood, Mass. principal players to become the Boston. Pops Wednesday, August 25, 1976 OVerall, the Boston Symphony duesn't Orchestra. (The top musicians, one from come close to meeting its $8.5 million annual Mr. BURKE of Massachusetts. Mr. each instrumental section. form a separate operating expenses With the $6 million it Speaker, I am sure my colleagues are all chamber-music group during the season.) takes in from ticket sales and other direct aware of the renowned conductor of the Over the years, the Boston. Pops has had sources. Contributions and endowment in- Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler. an enormous influence on the musical tastes come barely close the gap.. · of Americans far and wide, by popularizing While the orchestra has tried to bolster Maestro Fiedler, now 81 years of age, classical music and introducing "serious" its income by ra.!sing ticket prices, booking has been conducting the Boston Pops music lovers to the best of the popular fare. Symphony Ha.ll for other events and hosting since 1930. Through concert tours and And presiding-over it all Js white-hatred. 81- summer rock concerts at Tanglewood, in­ public television performances, he has yea.r-old Arthur Fiedler, who looks Uke the creasingly it has come to rely on the Bos~on brought a new appreciation and love of very protoype of a maestro. He haa con­ Pops. This year it extended the Pops season music into the lives of many Americans. ducted the orchestra for the past 47 seasons, into July and switched the siX-concert-a Mr. Fiedler's innovative programs, com­ a tenure longer than all 17 of hls predeces­ week Pops schedule to provide an extra. bining classical and popular musical sors combined. weekend performance. For the past six "Arthur Fiedler 1s the ambassador of music years, it has collaborated with WGBH. Bos­ styles, create delightful and exciting per­ to America," says Ralph Black, executive di­ ton's public television station, to air formances, with something for everyone. rector of the American Symphony Orchestra "Evening at Pops,.. splitting with the station The people of the Commonwealth of League, a Vienna, Va., trade associ&t1on. a $500,000 to $600,000 annual production Massachusetts are particularly proud of .. What he's done 1s reach the Dl888es. Hts grant !rom Martin Marietta Corp. Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops and music says, 'Come out and give It a. try and The Boston Pops has few of the financial fill have-a. good time.' .. problems facing the Symphony. Most of its Symphony Hall in Boston every Largely as a result of Mr. Fiedler's influ­ tickets (ranging in price from $2.00 to $8.50) evening there is a concert. Many Massa­ ence. most of the nation's 1,451 symphony are sold out in advance as early as the pre­ chusetts groups and organizattons have orchestras have been giving pops concerts ceding !all, often in large blocks to compa­ honored Mr. Fiedler over the years for h1s for the past two decades. But few set aside a nies and organlza.tions. It can keep labor contributions to the world of music, specific time of year for the performances, costs at a minimum by holding only one among these the 1972 Bay Stater of the and even !ewer add the flllip of refresh­ three-hour rehearsal a week because the Year Award presented by the Massa­ ments and a relaxed, informal setting. material, besides being simple and familiar, chusetts State Society of Washington. It wa.s in 1885 that Henry Lee H1gglnson, is repeated throughout the week. And sales D.C. a Boston financier who had founded the Bos­ of Boston Pops recording (ranging in flavor ton Symphony Orchestra four years earlier, from Tcha.tkovsky's "Swan Lake" to "Salute As the 1976 recipient of the Bay State reallzed another part of his dream: to pre­ to Disney") have reached some 50 m1lllon Award, I am indeed honored to join such sent "concerts of a lighter type of music." copies, probably more than those of any distinguished company. I would like to This light music was combined With light re­ other orchestra. join with the Massachusetts State Society freshments, and these "promenade" con­ Perhaps the key to the Boston Pops' wide in paying further tribute to Arthur certs--soon renamed "popular" and then appeal 1s Arthur Fledler's near-flawless in­ Fiedler by introducing the following Wall Hpops"-quickly became a Boston institu­ stinct for what will please the crowds. Al­ tion. though practica.lly anything goes--from Street Journal article in today's CoN­ VIOLINIST li4AKES GOOD Beethoven to the Bea.tles and beyond-he GRESIONAL RECORD. By the time Arthur Fiedler, a young vio­ tends to stay away from weightier symphonies .ARTHUR FIEDLER MIXES POP AND THE linist with the Boston Symphony, was named and esoteric rock music. "I'm a middle-of­ CLASSICS AS CONCERTGOERS CHEER-His conductor of the Pops in 1930, however, the the-road guy," he says. "People like the BOSTON POPS ORCHESTRA KEEPs THE popularlty of the concerts had paled. So the things they know, and I play the music they MOOD LivELY, INFLUENCES U.S. TASTES young maestro, who had spearheaded a like. I'd have trained. seals here if people A VIOLEST REFUSES TO WHISTLE campaign for free outdoor concerts the year wanted them." before, enlivened. the Boston Pops reper­ The Fiedler flair-or, some say, formula-­ (By Liz Roman Gallese) was much in evidence at Symphony Hall BosTON.-It 1s a sultry summer evening, toire and won cheers !rom critics and con­ certgoers alike. on a. recent Tuesday night as the conductor and here at Symphony Hall, spotlighted ascended to the podium promptly at 8:30 under a canopy of shlmmertng white light, Today, though some critics are less than p.m. Like all Boston Pops concerts, thJs one conductor Arthur Fiedler lifts his baton enthusiastic, the crowds are stlll cheering. is divided into three distinct parts: the first before the Boston Pops Orchestra. Strains The Boston Pops plays to packed houses in two featuring light classical music, the third of a. Gershwin medley fill the hall. In the Symphony Hall six nights a week dur1ng popular tunes. "You plan a musical pro-_ audience, men in bright sport jackets and May and June. Crowds flood the Charles gram the way a master che! plans a. menu," women in summer dresses sit around tiny River bank for free concerts in July (con­ Mr. Fiedler says. "You have a tempting ap­ tables, sipping white wine, nibbling tiny ducted mostly by Mr. Fiedler's assistant, petizer, a. fresh salad with a piquant dress­ sandwiches and bobbing their heads to the Harry Ellis Dickson). For 10 months of the ing, a robust main course, a carefully chosen music. The mood of festivity-even frivol­ year, Mr. Fiedler takes up his baton as dessel'lt." ity-never sags throughout the two-hour guest conductor at pops concerts given by Kicking off the program Is "Variations performance. Indeed, Mr. Fiedler is host of symphony orchestras throughout the U.S. on 'America,'" an Ives-8chuman number the biggest party in town. and abroad. And millions of Americans see that capitalizes on the audience'13 early-eve­ "Arthur Fiedler has a consummate knack him conduct the Boston Pops on nationwide ning enthusiasm with its attention-grabbing for building the audience up to a pitch with public television for 13 weeks each summer. shifts in tempo and mood. Rousing applause a mix of music and sending them home All this earllS for Mr. Fiedler a comfortable follows the piece. A shol'lt Rheinberger con­ happy for more," says Thomas Morris, man­ salary, but neither he nor the Boston Sym­ certo and an even shorter- MO:l'art sonata ager of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc., phony will specify the amount of his income. precedes the first intel'Ullssion.