Pops orchestra
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A pops orchestra is an orchestra
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...

 that plays popular music (generally traditional pop
Traditional pop music
Traditional pop or classic pop or standards music denotes, in general, Western popular music that either wholly predates the advent of rock and roll in the mid-1950s, or to any popular music which exists concurrently to rock and roll but originated in a time before the appearance of rock and roll,...

) and show tune
Show tune
A show tune is a popular song originally written as part of the score of a "show" , especially if the piece in question has become a "standard", more or less detached in most people's minds from the original context...

s as well as well-known classical
Classical music
Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

 works. Pops orchestras are generally organised in large cities and are distinct from the more "highbrow
Highbrow
Used colloquially as a noun or adjective, highbrow is synonymous with intellectual; as an adjective, it also means elite, and generally carries a connotation of high culture. The word draws its metonymy from the pseudoscience of phrenology, and was originally simply a physical descriptor...

" symphony
Symphony
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, scored almost always for orchestra. A symphony usually contains at least one movement or episode composed according to the sonata principle...

 or philharmonic orchestras which also may exist in the same city. This is not to say that the distinction is complete; many symphony orchestras (for instance, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Detroit, Michigan. Its main performance center is Orchestra Hall at the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit's Midtown neighborhood...

) put on pops performances with some regularity.

In the United States

  • Austin Pops http://www.austinpops.org
  • Bob Lappin and The Palm Beach Pops http://www.palmbeachpops.org
  • Boston Pops Orchestra
    Boston Pops Orchestra
    The Boston Pops Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts, that specializes in playing light classical and popular music....

  • Carolina Pops Orchestra http://www.carolinapops.com
  • Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
    Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
    The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra is a pops orchestra based in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, founded in 1977 out of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Its members are also the members of the Cincinnati Symphony, and the Pops is managed by the same administration...

  • Davenport Pops Orchestra http://www.yale.edu/pops
  • Cleveland Pops Orchestra
    Cleveland Pops Orchestra
    The Cleveland Pops Orchestra is a non-profit professional American pops orchestra based in Cleveland, Ohio. As is typical of pops orchestras, the ensemble performs popular music , cinematic music, jazz, and show tunes as well as well-known classical works. The orchestra was founded in 1995 and...

  • Golden State Pops Orchestra
    Golden State Pops Orchestra
    The Golden State Pops Orchestra is a symphony pops orchestra located in the San Pedro district of Los Angeles, California in the United States of America. The GSPO is the resident orchestra of the Warner Grand Theatre, an Art Deco movie palace built by Warner Brothers Studios in 1931...

     http://www.gspo.com
  • Harvard Pops Orchestra http://www.harvardpops.com
  • Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
    Hollywood Bowl Orchestra
    The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra is a symphony orchestra which is managed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association and plays the vast majority of its performances at the Hollywood Bowl....

  • Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
    Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
    The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is a major American orchestra based in Indianapolis, Indiana.Annually, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra performs 200 concerts for over 350,000 people. It is the largest performing arts organization in Indiana. The ISO is currently one of only 18 American...

  • Minneapolis Pops Orchestra
    Minneapolis Pops Orchestra
    The Minneapolis Pops Orchestra is a pops orchestra providing live public performances by professional musicians free of charge at various venues in the Twin Cities. It was founded in 1949....

  • The New York Pops
    The New York Pops
    The New York Pops is the largest independent symphonic pops orchestra in the United States, and the only symphonic orchestra in New York City specializing in popular American music...

  • Pasadena Pops Orchestra
  • Philly Pops
    Philly Pops
    The Philly Pops is an orchestra based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Led by two time GRAMMY Award-winningpianist Peter Nero, Peter Nero and the Philly Pops is an entity that consistently brings an enthusiastic response from its audience...

  • San Francisco Pops Orchestra
    San Francisco Pops Orchestra
    The San Francisco Pops Orchestra is an orchestra in San Francisco.When the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1911, its first music director, Henry Hadley, began the tradition of "pops" concerts, devoted to lighter classics and special arrangements of music from operettas, musicals,...

  • Tucson Pops Orchestra http://www.tucsonpops.org/
  • University of Michigan Pops Orchestra
    University of Michigan Pops Orchestra
    The Michigan Pops Orchestra is a pops orchestra made up of students at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Of the several orchestras at the University of Michigan, it is the only one that is entirely student-run and student-directed....

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