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Boston Pops

  • Kelli O'Hara and Sutton Foster are side by side. They wear their long hair curled, they both wear pink lipstick, and they both smile at the camera.
    “One Night Only,” with Kelli O’Hara and Sutton Foster at Tanglewood
    Two superstars of Broadway and the concert hall join Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops for a tribute to Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett, with music from The Great White Way and beyond.
  • Six featured artists in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's 2025-2026 season.
    Blog
    The Boston Symphony Orchestra's 2025-2026 Season
    Broad, interconnected thematic programming drives the BSO’s just announced 2025-2026 season, including “E Pluribus Unum,” a kaleidoscopic exploration of American works, “Where Words End: Music and the Natural World,” and “Faith in Our Time,” as well as a celebration of Symphony Hall's 125th birthday.
  • Keith Lockhart stands with his arms raised above his head, his eyes closed. As he conducts the Boston Pops, snow falls gently from the ceiling of Symphony Hall.
    Holiday Pops 2024!
    On WCRB In Concert with the Boston Pops, Keith Lockhart leads the Pops and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in a dazzling celebration of the season at Symphony Hall, featuring a special visit from Kris Kringle himself!
  • John Williams conducts the BSO at Tanglewood in front of a giant film screen, playing the film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
    John Williams’ Film Night, Live from Tanglewood!
    From Hollywood’s Golden Age to John Williams’s iconic scores, Film Night with the Boston Pops returns to Tanglewood with a special celebration of Henry Mancini’s 100th birthday, all led by conductors Ken-David Masur and David Newman.
  • Six headshots of six Broadway stars. They smile, they laugh, and they look at the camera.
    The Boston Pops at Tanglewood in Broadway Today!
    Keith Lockhart leads the Pops and a cast of Broadway superstars in selections from such Tony-winning musicals as "Hamilton," "In the Heights," "The Light in the Piazza," "Kimberly Akimbo," "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder," "The Band's Visit," and "Dear Evan Hansen."
  • Trumpeter Byron Stripling, in a grey suit, holding his instrument, and smiling
    Stripling and the Pops in "The Roots of Jazz: Trumpet Titans!"
    On WCRB In Concert with the Boston Pops, trumpeter Byron Stripling explores a kaleidoscope of legendary jazz voices, from Louis Armstrong to Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis.
  • Six-panel image of artists of the Boston Symphony's 2024-2025 season, including Carlos Simon, Mitsuko Uchida, Renée Fleming, Andris Nelsons, Ray Chen, and Christine Goerke
    Blog
    The Boston Symphony's 2024-2025 Season
    Brian McCreath
    The BSO's next season at Symphony Hall is anchored by Composer Chair Carlos Simon, major undertakings in works by Mahler, Beethoven, and Shostakovich with Music Director Andris Nelsons, and much, much more.
  • Double bassist Andres Vela, dressed in black in front of a black background, holds his instrument, facing the camera, next to violist Leonardo Vásquez Chacón, also dressed in black and holding his instrument
    Blog
    Vela and Vásquez Chacón, the BSO's First Resident Fellows
    Brian McCreath
    The Boston Symphony's Resident Fellowship Program for Early Career Musicians answers the call of change for American orchestras, and its first participants describe their experiences.
  • Keith Lockhart stands on stage with and the Boston Pops. Symphony Hall is decorated in red and white lights.
    Holiday Pops 2023!
    Keith Lockhart conducts the Boston Pops in a program of holiday music old and new through traditional carols, Pops classics, and a special visit from one jolly, old fellow!
  • Left: Diana Adamyan facing the viewer and holding a violin; Right: Emi Ferguson facing to the right holding a flute
    The Grace of Adamyan's Mendelssohn and the Charge of Ferguson's Bach
    On WCRB In Concert with the Celebrity Series of Boston, flutist Emi Ferguson and the early music ensemble Ruckus perform J.S. Bach's music in a program called "Fly the Coop," and Diana Adamyan is the soloist in Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with the Boston Pops and conductor Keith Lockhart.