There's nothing like celebrating the Fourth of July in Boston. The Boston Pops rocked the Esplanade and James Taylor was at his best in Tanglewood. The Spirit of America marching band even entertained shoppers at a Cape Cod Stop & Shop. All photos from Boston fireworks unless otherwise noted.
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The U.S. Army Field Band and Soldiers’ Chorus will join the Boston Pops for Boston's annual Fourth of July concert. The Ten Point Coalition is launching the “Season of Peace” to help people stay safe on the July 4th weekend. The 2011 Extreme Sailing Series joins Boston Harborfest from June 30-July 4, the circuit's first stop in the United States. Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Shaquille O'Neal conducted the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall tonight. Shaq took Keith Lockhart's baton for three songs: "Sleigh Ride," "Can You Feel It," and "We Are The Champions." Shaq dressed in tails for the performance and said it was tougher than dancing against Justin Bieber on "Shaq Vs." [Globe], [WCVB]
The Boston Pops announced Shaquille O'Neal will serve as guest conductor during Monday night's Holiday Pops concert. Shaq takes the baton as the Pops play "Sleigh Ride" for the performance. [Boston Globe]
The Boston area is obsessed with Christmas records. Are we auditioning for a new, festive Daily Beast list?
It's the 125th Anniversary of the Boston Pops and they are giving us a gift. Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops will play on Boston Common at 3 p.m. on Sunday, September 26 in a free concert. Not a typo. It's free. The Pops will perform The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers, a mix of Kennedy quotes set to an orchestral and choral score. Boston's Jeremiah Kissel will narrate the performance. The concert will also pay tribute to Leroy Anderson, feature Star Wars and Harry Potter scores, and Boston favorites "Sweet Caroline" and "I'm Shipping Up to Boston." Renese King and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus will also perform. [BSO]
The Fourth of July happened. The holiday weekend had drama, heat, music, fun and danger.
The headline event, of course, was the Boston Pops Fourth of July Spectacular on Sunday night. Toby Keith Lockhart entertained the crowd, viewers, and the troops, the Kennedy family got a well-deserved tribute, and stuff blew up. While the Boston fireworks display went off seamlessly, an illegal fireworks display in Marshfield on Saturday put people at risk in a chaotic run for safety. The explosion reportedly started earlier than planned.
More drama occurred as a whale watch ship named Massachusetts ran aground Saturday in Boston Harbor after colliding with the Devil’s Back. (The notion that a vessel called "Massachusetts" was in trouble is not lost on us.) The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating, and reports cite "pilot error" as the cause.
- Sean Harrington, a 17-year old from Arlington, is fighting to bring the Pledge of Allegiance back to the town's classrooms. [MassLive.com]
- Eric Tucker runs that spectacular Boston Pops Fourth of July fireworks display we will all enjoy Sunday night. [WBZ]
- Police are prepared to, well, police the behavior of citizens celebrating this weekend. Any drinking, bonfires or private fireworks displays will be scrutinized. [Patriot Ledger]
Celebrity chef Duff Goldman from Food Network's "Ace of Cakes", made a surprise appearance last night at Opening Night of the Boston Pops 125th season, to unveil a cake baked in honor of the Pops 125th Birthday, and conducted "The Stars and Stripes Forever" to end the concert. Boston Pops looks like it has a great season ahead of it, check out their schedule!
- State House lawmakers dropped a plan to allow communities to ignore Prop. 2.5 property tax hike limits. [Boston Herald]
- The Globe's Angle says we should be discussing abolishing municipal unions. [Boston Globe]
- It must be an election year because the Herald is telling us about politicians' plans to crack down on illegal immigrants. [Boston Herald]
From his place before the Boston Pops in the perfect acoustics of Symphony Hall, Ben Folds sported the face of a man who thought he'd committed the perfect crime.
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We wondered for a bit whether the Brooklyn born Neil Diamond had a problem with the fact that "Sweet Caroline" now has a permanent place in the Boston scene. But when Diamond performed at Fenway Park last year, playing the song three times over the course of the evening, we figured that he'd finally accepted his honorary Bostonian status.
Boston's sons and daughters proudly proclaim their city to be the best, but let's be honest: we have an awful lot of competition. We're not the biggest city (New York), the most logically designed (Washington D.C.), the cleanest (Portland), or even the weirdest city (Austin). Sometimes it's difficult to think about what sets Boston apart from the rest of the urban field.
We were so happy to see that Bostonist buddy Keith Lockhart (KLo) is now on Twitter. We hope he follows us. You can follow the maestro here.
Fireworks lit up the skies of Greater Boston last night. From our perch on the Mass. Ave. bridge, we saw four fireworks displays, including the grandest of them all, the Boston Pops extravaganza. (The other three appeared to be in Newton, Somerville(?), and South Boston.)
"I lived in Boston for four years and I was never here. Call it what you will. But I'm glad tonight is the first night." On Friday night, Josh Ritter began his set in Boston's most esteemed concert hall (lined with statuary of "huge, intimidating, partially-clad figures") by singing about his native Midwest: "Idaho," Illinois in "Best for the Best," and the whole region as "story we made up to erase" in "Other Side."
The Boston Pops announced today that Symphony Hall will, on June 27, play host to a show that could very well be one of the highlights of the summer concert season here in Boston.
--Logan Airport is going greener by buying renewable energy credits, right in time for Earth Day. [Boston Globe]
-- A woman was robbed at gunpoint today during a daytime invasion of her parents' home in Everett. Michelle Nguyen, 24 of Malden, was babysitting her 2 year-old nephew this morning when a man dressed completely in black entered the house and held a gun to her head. She parted with $500. Both Nguyen and her nephew were left unharmed. [Herald]
Bostonist was on the phone with our buddy Keith on Thursday, chatting about the upcoming Boston Pops spring season. The initial season announcement had just crossed our desk at Bostonist HQ, and we wanted to see what Keith thought of a spring and summer that will include jazz, Broadway, a season-long tribute to Leonard Bernstein, and appearances by Natalie Cole, Natalie Merchant, and Amanda Palmer.
How can you not love John Williams? He has given us some of the most memorable, mesmerizing film scores in cinematic history. Superman, E.T., Raiders of the Lost Ark! Films that are forever captured in multiple generations' minds and memories - and Bostonians can proudly puff out our chests and note that, given his longstanding ties to the Boston Pops, he is totally ours. So we wouldn't be surprised to know that there was a...
The latest hot YouTube video comes from the Tweeter Center parking lot, where some fans started beating the ever-loving hell out of each other before a 311 concert. Watch and learn the physical signs of the bonehead - their shirtless, tattoed torsos, their sweaty flesh, and their ability to take a punch:
Bostonist knew that with Wednesday night's Boston Pops EdgeFest finale would come a chance to see local talent (and Bostonist favorites) Mieka Pauley and Chad Perrone, but it wasn't until shortly before we braved the heat en route to Symphony Hall that we discovered that we were in store for another Boston music treat - three-fifths of the Ryan Montbleau Band (guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Ryan Montbleau, bassist Matt Gianarros and Laurence Scudder on viola), who closed out the night at the hall with a post-Pops performance.
Bostonist can't quite believe that it's been 15 years since our fair city got itself a rockstar symphony conductor. We remember well when the Keith Craze first sent music fans into a tizzy - the swooning, the squeals, the questions about what the young Keith Lockhart was going to do to the Boston Pops. And here it is, a decade and a half later and Bostonist still under KLo's spell. We've sighed at the sight...
The Boston Pops are mixing things up with the lineup for EdgeFest, the now-annual collaborative endeavor between indie/alternative musicians and the symphony. The Pops sent out a news release today that said the planned "M Ward and Friends" shows on June 26 and 27 have been postponed, so as to allow everyone to have enough time to "create the best possible arrangements for this unique collaboration."
It doesn't feel like July 4 is right around the corner - we're still busily settling into summer mode. But the Boston Pops are busily putting together the details for the annual Boston's 4th of July festivities, and on Thursday it was announced that this year's extravaganza is scheduled to feature some straight-up, blue-jeans, heartland-croonin' Americana. John Mellencamp is slated to share the stage with Keith Lockhart, the Pops and whomever will be selected as...
After a few weeks of uncertainty, the legal battle between the two men involved in the Brawl at the Hall last month took about as much time to resolve in the courtroom as it took for the pair to be escorted out of the Boston Pops' opening night festivities - about ten minutes.