Pops Stoppers: Greatest Hits of the Boston Pops Orchestra music CDs Product Description
Pops Stoppers: Greatest Hits of the Boston Pops Orchestra CD music Pops Stoppers is a retrospective look at film composer John Williams' tenure at the helm of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Pops Stoppers: Greatest Hits of the Boston Pops Orchestra music CDs Cynical listeners may view the record as one more in a never-ending series of attempts by the orchestra to milk its famous conductor for every penny his revered movie tunes are worth. This is approximately the 16 bagillionth BoPops compilation to feature excerpts from Williams' Oscar-sanctioned scores for E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial and Raiders of the Lost Ark, and it is especially vulnerable to accusations of mercenary motives since it was released nearly a decade after Williams hung up his Boston baton. But regardless of the motives behind its release, Pops Stoppers is a respectable collection of blustery orchestral foofaraw. The sequencing is somewhat ill-advised and monochromatic -- the movie music is clumped at the beginning rather than spread throughout the disc -- but the album does convey some of the splendor of the ensemble's stirring concerts. Particularly impressive are Williams' orchestral arrangements of big-band tunes like George Gershwin's "Moonlight Serenade" and "Strike Up the Band" and Benny Goodman's "Stompin' at the Savoy. " Pops Stoppers also includes Jerry Goldsmith's theme for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, a fine piece of work that demonstrates Williams' enormous influence on scorists for box office blockbusters throughout the late '70s and '80s. ~ Evan Cater
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Pops Stoppers: Greatest Hits of the Boston Pops Orchestra album. This compilation focuses on great American songwriters including Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and Richard Rogers.
Personnel: Bob Winter (piano).
Liner Note Author: Max Baade.
Recording information: Symphony Hall, Boston, MA (12/16/1992/12/18/1992).
Illustrator: Kim Whitesides.
Translators: Anna Saxon-Forti; Genevieve Haines; Mike Danner.
Arrangers: David Raksin; Jack Mason; Eric Knight; Peter Bodge; Angela Morley; Sid Ramin; Alexander Courage; Richard Hayman; Billy Byers; Billy May.
Pops Stoppers: Greatest Hits of the Boston Pops Orchestra songs. Track Listing of songs: Theme From "Star Trek"; Selections From Girl Crazy: I Got The Rhythm / Embraceable You / Bidin' My Time / But Not For Me / I Got Rhythm; New York, New York; A Salute to Fred Astaire: Top Hat, White Tie And Tails / The Carioca / Dancing In The Dark; I Won't Dance; Overture From "A Chorus Line"; Sophisticated Ladies; Can You Read My Mind (Love Theme); Pop Salutes the Oscars: When You Wish Upon On Star / Swingin' On Star / Moon River; Richard Rodgers Waltzes: Lover / Falling In Love With Love / Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin';
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Pops Stoppers: Greatest Hits of the Boston Pops Orchestra music CDs. Recording information: Chapelle du Lycée, Tournon, France (03/08/1975-03/09/1975).
Pops Stoppers: Greatest Hits of the Boston Pops Orchestra album. As suggested by Trapped!'s fitting title, Rage's remarkably unremarkable career had often appeared to be trapped within very limiting creative parameters. Even worse, every attempt to expand these limits had met with terribly unsatisfying results on previous occasions, leaving the band treading water in a sea of stylistic sameness for much of their first five albums. So it was with no small amount of grateful surprise that fans discovered the contradictory qualities of 1992's Trapped!, which turned out to be one of the group's most original and exploratory outings ever. Truly a pivotal album for this minor-league German institution, Trapped! not only proved that there was some measure of hope for musical growth in Rage's future, but that the normally hapless trio was actually capable of recording a complete disc's worth of consistently strong material when they set their minds to it. Expertly crafted numbers like "Solitary Man," "Medicine," and "The Body Talks" announce the arrival of a revitalizing second wind in Rage's career -- one that few fans ever expected to witness. This was ...
Pops Stoppers: Greatest Hits of the Boston Pops Orchestra music CDs. Track Listing of songs: Baby Revolution; Campi di Popcorn; Canzone; Dalla Cucina Al Soggiorno; Marce 1/2; Scusami Se Ti Amo; Dio Privato; Candyman; Mi Piacerebbe Sapere; Little Man; Buongiorno Guerra; Joker;
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