Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It may be May, but planning is well underway for the annual 4th of July Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular. This year will mark the ...

Thursday night, for the 50th time, Boston's annual Fourth of July celebration will come to a crescendo of cannon fire, fireworks and Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. The tradition began in 1974 when ...

Thirty years ago, Keith Lockart arrived on the scene, taking over the baton as maestro of the Boston Pops from movie composer extraordinaire John Williams, who’d been on the podium since Arthur ...

The second longest-serving conductor after Arthur Fiedler since the Pops was founded in 1885, Lockhart has led with boundless energy and a great gift for communication, conducting more than 2,250 ...