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Fizzle Go the Boston Pops
With sponsors bailing out and CBS signing off, Boston’s most rousing Fourth of July export has fallen off the national stage. After nearly 25 years, does its boy-wonder conductor Keith Lockhart, once the talk of the town, still have the spark to bring it back to life?
Escaping the Pit | STANFORD magazine
—By James Sullivan
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On an afternoon in late May, Keith Lockhart took a seat by the window in Pavement Coffeehouse, just a short walk from Symphony Hall, and glanced around at his fellow customers.
The engaging maestro with sparkling blue eyes smiled and sipped his coffee, notably unnoticed. “They’re all college kids,” he said. “They don’t have the slightest idea who I am.”
In his 23rd season as the Boston Pops’ conductor, Lockhart isn’t exactly pining for the days when his face was plastered across town, when cab drivers, construction workers, A classic rock star revealed - Taipei Times CER