What a show!!! Darlene Love, the Mavericks and Kelli O'Hara!! Can't wait till next year, when Keith Lockhart will celebrate 30 years as maestro of the Boston Pops!! 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
THE FLAG WAS LATE during "The Stars and Stripes Forever" . . . I thought I had missed it . . . that's the first time that has ever happened in all the years I've been watching this yearly performance - it looks like someone had to go up there and SHAKE it loose. You can hear the flag being released, but a camera wasn't even on it - better luck NEXT year. ( the confetti seemed to be a little off in it's timing, too ) I always listen ( after the "flag drop" ) to hear the piccolos through ALL the instruments as loud as they can be - they did good. The smallest instruments in the orchestra can STILL be heard LOUD and CLEAR. Well, I'm glad someone put it on RU-vid, so I could see what really happened in a "rerun" . . THANKS !!!
They played a shortened version as well. My guess is there were behind schedule, someone gave a signal to play the short version, and whoever was in charge of the flag and confetti didn't get the message.
7:30 - Greetings from outer space 1:45:45 - America the Beautiful feat Kelli O’Hara 1:50:00 - *POPS GOES THE 4TH!!!* start watching from here if you have time and are open to watching a world class symphony 2:01:24 - YAHHH DUUUDE 2:05:43 - The main event (on a clear night!)
Thank God this is back on cable. While not as good as the A&E broadcast this is still infinitely better than the butchered CBS condensed one hour broadcast that wouldn't show the entire 1812 overture. Because half of the broadcast was fireworks there was less than a half an hour of the actual pops concert. I understand a network can bring in more viewers but when they produce a sub standard product that is counter productive. I can't believe it took the Boston Pops 15 year to realize CBS was never going to air the concert as it was meant to be scene. As soon as a Boston Pops FB was created fans screamed for years to move the concert back to cable. The last CBS concert was so bad it resulted in no national concert for a few years,
Thanks to Bloomberg for carrying it, yes, but *the live version here on RU-vid* was the clearest version sent live -- and this is even cleaner; no ticker at all.
1) Thanks for posting this. 2) Thanks for posting this even though your namesake is based in New York City. 🙂 3) Thanks for posting the full length, un-squoze version. 4) We would have been ok if you'd left in the feature packages about the fireworks and the artillery and the history and such that you run in the RU-vid live version instead of ad breaks. :-)
2:04:30 Remember when this is when the flag was dropped and the confetti which ACTUALLY MADE IT TO THE AUDIENCE started? When fireworks short from behind the hatch shell? Remember when this was the highlight of the whole show.... I just don't get it... :(
That was very nice. And the fireworks weren’t bad. Only lacking idk artistry? in Spain we do better. Also the having fun part 🤷🏻♂️. Edit: ok that finale was something.
