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From 1980 to 1993, Williams succeeded the legendary Arthur Fiedler as the principal conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra. He is now the Laureate Conductor of the Pops and still has ties to the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), which have much overlap and both perform out of Boston's Symphony Hall. He conducts several concerts with the Boston Pops every year, particularly during their Holiday Pops season and typically a week of concerts in May. He also frequently enlists the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, the official chorus of the BSO, to sing ch ...

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Arguably one of the most influential trumpet performers and teachers of the twentieth century, Voisin joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra as assistant principal trumpet in 1935 at age seventeen, and became principal trumpet in 1952. He performed in the Boston Symphony for 38 years, until 1973. During this period, he was also principal trumpet with the Boston Pops Orchestra. Voisin moved to the United States as a child when his father, René Voisin, was brought to the Boston Symphony as fourth trumpet by Sergei Koussevitzky in 1928. H ...

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Walter Hamor Piston Jr. (January 20, 1894 – November 12, 1976) was an American composer. He was born in Rockland, Maine. His father's father, the sailor Antonio Pistone changed his name to Anthony Piston when he came to America from Genoa, Italy. In 1905, Walter Piston Sr. and his family moved to Boston. Walter Jr. trained as an engineer at the Mechanical Arts High School in Boston, but he was artistically inclined and upon graduating from there in 1912, proceeded to the Massachusetts Normal Arts School, majoring in painting, also studying architectural drawing and American history. There he met Ka ... Including:

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As mentioned, the song was greeted by raving fans on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, but dismissed by more than a few critics as nothing more than just another fad song that would not hold up to the tests of time. Cynthia Lowery of the Associated Press expressed her exasperation with Beatlemania by saying of the Beatles: "Heaven knows we've heard them enough. It has been impossible to get a radio weather bulletin or time signal without running into 'I Want To Hold Your Hand.'" Another critic declared that the Beatles were "really pretty bo ...

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