Esplanade fun

By adamg on Tue, 07/05/2005 - 9:45am

John captures the July 4th festivities, which left Wally pretty cranky. Brian and clan watched from the top level of the Museum of Science parking lot. He reports the fireworks were great but left him wondering:

... They're accompanied by pre-recorded music, which is really useless if you ask me. The music selection is lame and doesn't particularly suit a fireworks display, and, after all, there is a world-class orchestra just sitting there watching ...

Tim, meanwhile, ponders the differences between the confident, assured Keith Lockhart at the Hatch Shell, and the whiny, petulant Keith Lockhart in the Boston Sunday Globe:

... Why on earth would someone as apparently media-savvy as Keith Lockhart drop the shield for an interview that made him out to be such a whiner? You'd think he'd, I don't know, go start a LiveJournal or something.

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What I would have asked Keith Lockhart

By Ron Newman on Tue, 07/05/2005 - 10:33am.

The question I wish the Globe had asked him:

What happened to the rest of the Esplanade concert season? When you first got here, the Pops used to perform six or seven Esplanade concerts each summer, in late June or early July. July 4th was the highlight, but there was also Gospel Night, Arthur Fielder Night, and nights were the Pops played actual whole symphonies. Why did you abandon this tradition, and when will you bring it back?