POPS FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

ARTHUR FIEDLER conductor

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Sunday August 31 1969 at 2.30 pm TANGLEWOOD ARTHUR FIEDLER, Conductor of the Boston Pops, has been described as 'an institution in his hometown'. Born in the Back Bay on December 17 1894, he was brought up in an atmosphere of music. His father was a violinist in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, his mother was also a musi- cian. When his family returned to their Viennese home, he went with them, and later entered the Royal Academy in . Returning to Boston at the start of the first world war, he joined the Boston Symphony at the age of twenty. Nine years later he formed a chamber orchestra, the Boston Sin- fonietta, and in 1929 launched the free concerts on the Esplanade, which remain one of Boston's chief summer attractions.

In 1930 Arthur Fiedler was appointed conductor of the Boston Pops, the position he has held without interruption ever since. His recordings for

RCA are famous throughout the world, and even today he is an indefatig- able traveler, guest conducting regularly on all five continents. Arthur Fiedler has left an indelible mark on the musical tastes of millions in every corner of the globe.

ANTHONY PARATORE is a graduate of the School of Fine and Applied Arts at and of the Juiiiiard School of Music. His teachers have been Mario Mantini, Leo Litwin, Bela Nagy and Rosina Lhevinne. He and his brother Joseph form a duo-piano team. Anthony Paratore has appeared on many occasions with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. BOSTON POPS FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

ARTHUR FIEDLER conductor

Entrance of the guests from Tannhauser' Wagner

Overture to 'La gazza ladra' Rossini

Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'* Vaughan Williams

Suite from 'Gatte Parisienne'* Offenbach

Overture — Allegro brillante — Polio — Galop Valse — March — Can-can — Finale

intermission

Piano * Cershwin

Allegro Adagio — andante con moto Allegro agitato ANTHONY PARATORE

intermission

Selections from '' Sherman and Sherman

Chitty chitty bang bang — You two — The roses of success — Posh — Hushabye Mountain — — — Me old bam-boo — Chitty chitty bang bang

Eleanor Rigby Lennon-McCartney

Up, up and away" Webb

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