Keith Lockhart's "What I Did This Summer" essay begins today. Lockhart is in his 10th season as conductor of the Boston Pops, and a retrospective of his tenure opens the "Evening at Pops" season. The program airs in Utah at 4 p.m. Sundays on KUED, Channel 7.
Lockhart, who also has been music director of the Utah Symphony since 1998, finds the milestone a bit frightening. "It's incredible how fast time goes," he said in a chat from his Boston office.
According to a news release from WGBH, the Boston television station that produces "Evening at Pops," Lockhart has led the orchestra in more than 600 concerts and 56 television shows. He and the show's producers select a "diverse palette" from the Pops calendar for each season's "Evening at Pops" lineup -- "everybody from Patti LaBelle to Gil Shaham, and lots in between," Lockhart said, rattling off a lengthy list of guest stars from the past decade: "Barbara Cook, Faith Prince, Rebecca Luker, Jean-Yves Thibaudet . . . Jason Alexander, Nathan Lane, Martin Short, Penn and Teller, Nanci Griffith, Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Martina McBride . . . Chick Corea. ['Sesame Street's'] Elmo might have been one of the coolest." Lockhart also put in a plug for the upcoming "Pops Goes the Fourth" Independence Day concert, featuring Broadway luminary Jennifer Holliday and former Van Halen frontman DAVID LEE ROTH, to be broadcast on CBS.
Lockhart, who also has been music director of the Utah Symphony since 1998, finds the milestone a bit frightening. "It's incredible how fast time goes," he said in a chat from his Boston office.
According to a news release from WGBH, the Boston television station that produces "Evening at Pops," Lockhart has led the orchestra in more than 600 concerts and 56 television shows. He and the show's producers select a "diverse palette" from the Pops calendar for each season's "Evening at Pops" lineup -- "everybody from Patti LaBelle to Gil Shaham, and lots in between," Lockhart said, rattling off a lengthy list of guest stars from the past decade: "Barbara Cook, Faith Prince, Rebecca Luker, Jean-Yves Thibaudet . . . Jason Alexander, Nathan Lane, Martin Short, Penn and Teller, Nanci Griffith, Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Martina McBride . . . Chick Corea. ['Sesame Street's'] Elmo might have been one of the coolest." Lockhart also put in a plug for the upcoming "Pops Goes the Fourth" Independence Day concert, featuring Broadway luminary Jennifer Holliday and former Van Halen frontman DAVID LEE ROTH, to be broadcast on CBS.
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