The New York Pops
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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. Led by newly appointed Music Director Steven Reineke
, the orchestra performs an annual subscription series and birthday gala at Carnegie Hall
, enjoying one of the highest subscription renewal rates of any series at Carnegie Hall
. The New York Pops was founded by former NBC
Music Director Skitch Henderson
in 1983 with a mission to create greater public awareness and appreciation of America's rich musical heritage.
Along with performing at Carnegie Hall
, The New York Pops tours throughout the world and gives free concerts in New York City parks through its Summermusic program. In 2009 the orchestra made its fifth annual appearance in the Macy’s 4 July Fireworks Spectacular on NBC. Past media projects include producing a nationally syndicated radio series and performing on PBS. The orchestra’s extensive discography includes recordings of popular song, film and theater music, and music for the holidays.
A recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The New York Pops is a not-for-profit corporation supported solely through the generosity of individual donations, institutional grants, and concert income.
, including works by Harold Arlen
, Irving Berlin
, Leonard Bernstein
, Aaron Copland
, Duke Ellington
, George Gershwin
, Jerome Kern
, Cole Porter
, Richard Rodgers
, Ron Roullier, and Stephen Sondheim
,
, Carol Channing
, Fantasia
, Michael Feinstein
, Marvin Hamlisch
, Marilyn Horne
, Cheyenne Jackson
, Jerry Lewis
, Reba McEntire
, Liza Minnelli
, Bebe Neuwirth
, Kelli O’Hara, Lea Salonga
, Doc Severinsen
, George Shearing
, Elaine Stritch
, The King’s Singers, Wayne Brady
, Ann Hampton Callaway
, James T. Lane, N'Kenge and Elmo
.
Kids in the Balcony
Throughout the concert season, more than a thousand children receive free tickets to
attend New York Pops performances at Carnegie Hall.
Through their schools, community centers or clubs, New York City
children are offered free tickets for all New York Pops concerts at Carnegie Hall
, including the annual Birthday Gala where more than 830 children fill the Carnegie Hall
balcony. In order to prepare students more thoroughly for their concert-going experience, groups can arrange for a member of orchestra’s Education Staff to visit before the concert. The staff member offers information about Carnegie Hall
, the orchestra, conductor, guest artists, and concert etiquette.
Create A Symphony
A professional composer takes up residence in a select New York City public school
to teach students how to create original music.
Ignite children’s enthusiasm for learning, discipline and teamwork by unlocking their creative potential. Once a week for 13 weeks, through non-musical means, a professional composer works with children to help them create their own music. Students learn about the instruments of the orchestra, orchestration, and composition, and then use their new tools to create original works using Strings
, Woodwinds, Brass
, Percussion, Voice
and Dance
. The program concludes with a concert featuring the student compositions.
Salute to Music
Each year hundreds of middle-school children receive music instruction from
New York’s finest professional musicians and educators.
On Saturdays throughout the school year, New York Pops instructors provide free music lessons to students in each of New York City
’s five boroughs. The lessons are offered as part of the Department of Education
’s borough-wide band and orchestra program, a voluntary after-school program for students who wish to study music but whose schools have limited resources. Salute to Music offers these young musicians the opportunity to learn and perform in an interactive group setting. Professional instructors provide lessons in all the major instrument groups, including strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion. At the end of the year, more than two dozen select Salute to Music students perform on the Carnegie Hall
stage with The New York Pops at the orchestra’s gala concert.
Rhythm, Rhyme, and Rap
Literacy-based Music Program where students build their own
percussion instruments, form ensembles, and create original raps.
Rhythm, Rhyme and Rap offers students the alternative three R’s, designed to empower them by nurturing their creativity, encouraging self expression, and building self esteem. Students learn about the origins of rhythm, play with language to create their own lyrics and ultimately develop and perform a musical narrative, rap on a subject of their choice.
Musical Mentors
Professional musicians take up residence in a select New York City public school to
work directly with the school band and orchestra program.
Once a week for 16 weeks, five New York Pops teachers work with student musicians in an under-funded New York City public school to help invigorate the school’s music program. During a concentrated three-hour work period, the teachers assist with all aspects of the school’s music program, including orchestra
, jazz band
, concert band
, marching band
, chorus
and private lessons. The program concludes with an annual year-end showcase of student performances.
April 8, 1983 through 2008-2009 Season, a total of 229 concerts in Carnegie Hall
Television
Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular, NBC
nationwide – 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005
Tours
Southeast United States: Virginia – 2005, Florida & South Carolina – 1997, 1995, 1993, 1989
Asia: Osaka and Tokyo, Japan – New Year's 1999, 1997, 1995, 1993, 1991 & Seoul, Korea – 1995
Midwest United States: Michigan, Illinois, and Iowa – March 1993
Outdoor Concerts
Indented performances are part of The New York Pops' Summertime music series
Eisenhower Park, Long Island – July 3, 2004
PNC Bank Arts Center
, New Jersey – August 3, 2004
Caramoor International Music Festival
– June 30, 2002
Charles Ives Center, Danbury, CT – 2002, 2001, 1996, 1995
Brookhaven Amphitheater, Long Island
– 2000, 1999
New York City
100 Centennial Concert on Central Park
’s Great Lawn – July 10, 1998
OpSail '92/Columbus Quincentennial, South Street Seaport
, New York City
– July 4, 1992
Columbus Avenue Festival, New York City
– September 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988
"Welcome Home the Troops" Celebration, South Street Seaport
, New York City
– June 10, 1991
New York Daily News
Blimp Race, Jones Beach State Park, New York
– July 5, 1986
Single Engagements
Yankee Stadium
– National Anthem performed by The New York Pops Brass – October 7, 2009
Yankee Stadium – National Anthem performed by The New York Pops Brass – April 17, 2008
Ken Lavigne in Concert - Carnegie Hall
, New York City - January 22, 2009
Skitch Henderson
: A Man and His Music – Carnegie Hall
, New York City
– February 6, 2006
Ferguson Center for the Arts Grand Opening, Newport News, Virginia
– September 12, 2005
New York City Republican National Convention Host Committee Concert – September 1, 2004
Yankee Stadium – National Anthem
performed by The New York Pops Brass – June 29, 2004
Russell Watson
-The Voice with Lea Salonga
and Hayley Westenra
, Carnegie Hall
– June 1, 2002
U.S. Military Academy, Eisenhower Hall, West Point, New York
– December 2001, May 1990
Inaugural Reception for The Centennial of Greater New York, Gracie Mansion
– September 8, 1999
Unilever United States Dinner, Natural History Museum, New York City
– March 18, 1999
Walter Cronkite
Tribute, Waldorf-Astoria, New York City
– February 17, 1999
150th Anniversary of New York Life, Avery Fisher Hall
, Lincoln Center – July 2, 1995
Newport Centre Christmas Celebration, Jersey City, New Jersey
– December 1989, 1988, 1987
World Financial Center Dedication Ceremony, New York City
– October 1988
"I Love New York", Apollo Theatre
, New York City
– October 1987
"Harlem Week" with Cab Calloway
, Apollo Theatre
, New York City
– August 1986
Benefit Concerts
Young People's Chorus of New York City: Shaping Lives Through Music, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center - March 13, 2009
Lauri Strauss Leukemia Foundation Benefit Concerts, Carnegie Hall
– 1992-2008
Young People’s Chorus of New York City: A Decade of Dreams, Carnegie Hall
– October 22, 2007
Seeds of Peace to benefit camp for teenagers from war-torn countries, Carnegie Hall
– May 22, 2000
Tilles Center Gala XI to benefit Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, Brookville, New York – October 1991
Pops orchestra
A pops orchestra is an orchestra that plays popular music and show tunes as well as well-known classical works. Pops orchestras are generally organised in large cities and are distinct from the more "highbrow" symphony or philharmonic orchestras which also may exist in the same city...
in the United States, and the only symphonic orchestra in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
specializing in popular American music. Led by newly appointed Music Director Steven Reineke
Steven Reineke
Steven Reineke is a conductor, composer, and arranger from Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the Music Director of The New York Pops. He currently resides in New York City.-Biography:...
, the orchestra performs an annual subscription series and birthday gala at Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
, enjoying one of the highest subscription renewal rates of any series at Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
. The New York Pops was founded by former NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
Music Director Skitch Henderson
Skitch Henderson
Lyle Russell Cedric “Skitch” Henderson was a pianist, conductor, and composer. His nickname reportedly derived from his ability to quickly "re-sketch" a song in a different key.- Biography :...
in 1983 with a mission to create greater public awareness and appreciation of America's rich musical heritage.
Along with performing at Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
, The New York Pops tours throughout the world and gives free concerts in New York City parks through its Summermusic program. In 2009 the orchestra made its fifth annual appearance in the Macy’s 4 July Fireworks Spectacular on NBC. Past media projects include producing a nationally syndicated radio series and performing on PBS. The orchestra’s extensive discography includes recordings of popular song, film and theater music, and music for the holidays.
A recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The New York Pops is a not-for-profit corporation supported solely through the generosity of individual donations, institutional grants, and concert income.
Musical fare
American pop standards and other well-known material from the Great American SongbookGreat American Songbook
The Great American Songbook is a hypothetical construct that seeks to represent the best American songs of the 20th century principally from Broadway theatre, musical theatre, and Hollywood musicals, from the 1920s to 1960, including dozens of songs of enduring popularity...
, including works by Harold Arlen
Harold Arlen
Harold Arlen was an American composer of popular music, having written over 500 songs, a number of which have become known the world over. In addition to composing the songs for The Wizard of Oz, including the classic 1938 song, "Over the Rainbow,” Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the...
, Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
, Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...
, Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...
, Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions...
, George Gershwin
George Gershwin
George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...
, Jerome Kern
Jerome Kern
Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A...
, Cole Porter
Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...
, Richard Rodgers
Richard Rodgers
Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II...
, Ron Roullier, and Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award...
,
Guest artists
Past guest performers include Tony BennettTony Bennett
Tony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz....
, Carol Channing
Carol Channing
Carol Elaine Channing is an American singer, actress, and comedienne. She is the recipient of three Tony Awards , a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination...
, Fantasia
Fantasia Barrino
Fantasia Monique Barrino commonly known as Fantasia, is an American R&B singer, Broadway and television actress who rose to fame as the winner of the third season of the reality television series American Idol in 2004. Following her victory, she released her debut single, "I Believe", which...
, Michael Feinstein
Michael Feinstein
Michael Jay Feinstein is an American singer, pianist, and music revivalist. He is an interpreter of, and an anthropologist and archivist for, the repertoire known as the Great American Songbook. In 1988 he won a Drama Desk Special Award for celebrating American musical theatre songs...
, Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Hamlisch
Marvin Frederick Hamlisch is an American composer. He is one of only thirteen people to have been awarded Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and a Tony . He is also one of only two people to EGOT and also win a Pulitzer Prize...
, Marilyn Horne
Marilyn Horne
Marilyn Horne is an American mezzo-soprano opera singer. She specialized in roles requiring a large sound, beauty of tone, excellent breath support, and the ability to execute difficult coloratura passages....
, Cheyenne Jackson
Cheyenne Jackson
Cheyenne Jackson is an American actor and singer. He started in regional theater when he moved to Seattle, and after moving to New York City, made his 2002 Broadway theatre debut understudying both male leads in the Tony Award-winning musical Thoroughly Modern Millie...
, Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the famed comedy team of Martin and Lewis...
, Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire
Reba Nell McEntire is an American country music artist and actress. She began her career in the music industry as a high school student singing in the Kiowa High School band , on local radio shows with her siblings, and at rodeos. As a solo act, she was invited to perform at a rodeo in Oklahoma...
, Liza Minnelli
Liza Minnelli
Liza May Minnelli is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of singer and actress Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli....
, Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth
Beatrice "Bebe" Neuwirth is an American actress, singer and dancer. She has worked in television and is known for her portrayal of Dr. Lilith Sternin, Dr. Frasier Crane's wife , on both the TV sitcom Cheers , and its spin-off Frasier...
, Kelli O’Hara, Lea Salonga
Lea Salonga
Lea Salonga-Chien is a mezzo-soprano singer and actress from the Philippines well known for originating the lead role of Kim in the musical Miss Saigon, for which she won the Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics and Theatre World awards.She was the first Asian to play the roles of Éponine and...
, Doc Severinsen
Doc Severinsen
Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen is an American pop and jazz trumpeter. He is best known for leading the NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.-Early life:...
, George Shearing
George Shearing
Sir George Shearing, OBE was an Anglo-American jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for MGM Records and Capitol Records. The composer of over 300 titles, he had multiple albums on the Billboard charts during the 1950s, 1960s, 1980s and 1990s...
, Elaine Stritch
Elaine Stritch
Elaine Stritch is an American actress and vocalist. She has appeared in numerous stage plays and musicals, feature films, and many television programs...
, The King’s Singers, Wayne Brady
Wayne Brady
Wayne Alphonso Brady is an actor, singer, comedian and television personality, known for his work as a regular on the American version of the improvisational comedy television series Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and as the host of the daytime talk show The Wayne Brady Show...
, Ann Hampton Callaway
Ann Hampton Callaway
Ann Hampton Callaway is a multiplatinum-selling singer, composer, lyricist, pianist, and actress. She is best known for writing and singing the theme to the TV series The Nanny, writing songs for Barbra Streisand and starring in the Broadway musical Swing!.-Career:Callaway was described by the New...
, James T. Lane, N'Kenge and Elmo
Elmo
Elmo is a Muppet character on the children's television show Sesame Street. He is a furry red monster and currently hosts the last full 15 minute segment on Sesame Street, Elmo's World, which is aimed at toddlers. His puppeteer, Kevin Clash, uses falsetto to produce his voice...
.
Education
The New York Pops Education Programs serve thousands of children every year. Since the inception of the first education programs in 1990, more than 18,500 children have been touched by the magic of music. That’s no small feat in a time of budgetary crises and cutbacks in art education. By increasing young people’s awareness and understanding of the music-making experience, The New York Pops Education Programs both build audiences and train musicians for the future. Working with the New York City Public Schools and youth organizations, The New York Pops provides children with free music lessons, free admission to rehearsals and concerts, and free classroom programs designed to spark the creative potential within every child.Kids in the Balcony
Throughout the concert season, more than a thousand children receive free tickets to
attend New York Pops performances at Carnegie Hall.
Through their schools, community centers or clubs, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
children are offered free tickets for all New York Pops concerts at Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
, including the annual Birthday Gala where more than 830 children fill the Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
balcony. In order to prepare students more thoroughly for their concert-going experience, groups can arrange for a member of orchestra’s Education Staff to visit before the concert. The staff member offers information about Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
, the orchestra, conductor, guest artists, and concert etiquette.
Create A Symphony
A professional composer takes up residence in a select New York City public school
to teach students how to create original music.
Ignite children’s enthusiasm for learning, discipline and teamwork by unlocking their creative potential. Once a week for 13 weeks, through non-musical means, a professional composer works with children to help them create their own music. Students learn about the instruments of the orchestra, orchestration, and composition, and then use their new tools to create original works using Strings
String instrument
A string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones...
, Woodwinds, Brass
Brass instrument
A brass instrument is a musical instrument whose sound is produced by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips...
, Percussion, Voice
Voice
Voice may refer to:* Human voice* Voice control or voice activation* Writer's voice* Voice acting* Voice vote* Voice message-In film:* Voice , a 2005 South Korean film* The Voice , a 2010 Turkish horror film directed by Ümit Ünal...
and Dance
Dance
Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....
. The program concludes with a concert featuring the student compositions.
Salute to Music
Each year hundreds of middle-school children receive music instruction from
New York’s finest professional musicians and educators.
On Saturdays throughout the school year, New York Pops instructors provide free music lessons to students in each of New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
’s five boroughs. The lessons are offered as part of the Department of Education
New York City Department of Education
The New York City Department of Education is the branch of municipal government in New York City that manages the city's public school system. It is the largest school system in the United States, with over 1.1 million students taught in more than 1,700 separate schools...
’s borough-wide band and orchestra program, a voluntary after-school program for students who wish to study music but whose schools have limited resources. Salute to Music offers these young musicians the opportunity to learn and perform in an interactive group setting. Professional instructors provide lessons in all the major instrument groups, including strings, woodwinds, brass and percussion. At the end of the year, more than two dozen select Salute to Music students perform on the Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
stage with The New York Pops at the orchestra’s gala concert.
Rhythm, Rhyme, and Rap
Literacy-based Music Program where students build their own
percussion instruments, form ensembles, and create original raps.
Rhythm, Rhyme and Rap offers students the alternative three R’s, designed to empower them by nurturing their creativity, encouraging self expression, and building self esteem. Students learn about the origins of rhythm, play with language to create their own lyrics and ultimately develop and perform a musical narrative, rap on a subject of their choice.
Musical Mentors
Professional musicians take up residence in a select New York City public school to
work directly with the school band and orchestra program.
Once a week for 16 weeks, five New York Pops teachers work with student musicians in an under-funded New York City public school to help invigorate the school’s music program. During a concentrated three-hour work period, the teachers assist with all aspects of the school’s music program, including 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...
, jazz band
Jazz band
A jazz band is a musical ensemble that plays jazz music. Jazz bands usually consist of a rhythm section and a horn section, in the early days often trumpet, trombone, and clarinet with rhythm section of piano, banjo, bass or tuba, and drums.-Eras:SwingDuring the swing era in the mid-twentieth...
, concert band
Concert band
A concert band, also called wind band, symphonic band, symphonic winds, wind orchestra, wind symphony, wind ensemble, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of several members of the woodwind instrument family, brass instrument family, and percussion instrument family.A...
, marching band
Marching band
Marching band is a physical activity in which a group of instrumental musicians generally perform outdoors and incorporate some type of marching with their musical performance. Instrumentation typically includes brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments...
, chorus
Choir
A choir, chorale or chorus is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform.A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus...
and private lessons. The program concludes with an annual year-end showcase of student performances.
Performance Highlights
Carnegie HallCarnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
April 8, 1983 through 2008-2009 Season, a total of 229 concerts in Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
Television
Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular, NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
nationwide – 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005
Tours
Southeast United States: Virginia – 2005, Florida & South Carolina – 1997, 1995, 1993, 1989
Asia: Osaka and Tokyo, Japan – New Year's 1999, 1997, 1995, 1993, 1991 & Seoul, Korea – 1995
Midwest United States: Michigan, Illinois, and Iowa – March 1993
Outdoor Concerts
Indented performances are part of The New York Pops' Summertime music series
- Bryant ParkBryant ParkBryant Park is a 9.603 acre privately managed public park located in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and between 40th and 42nd Streets in Midtown Manhattan...
– 2006, 2005, 2004 - Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
– 2003, 1995–2001 - Historic Battery ParkBattery ParkBattery Park is a 25-acre public park located at the Battery, the southern tip of Manhattan Island in New York City, facing New York Harbor. The Battery is named for artillery batteries that were positioned there in the city's early years in order to protect the settlement behind them...
, Downtown River to River Festival – July 5, 2002 - World Trade Center – 2001, OpSail 2000
- Celebrate Brooklyn!, Prospect ParkProspect Park (Brooklyn)Prospect Park is a 585-acre public park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn located between Park Slope, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Kensington, Windsor Terrace and Flatbush Avenue, Grand Army Plaza and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden...
– 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998 - Central ParkCentral ParkCentral Park is a public park in the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan...
SummerStage – 2004, 2002 - Snug Harbor, Staten Island – 2001, 2000, 1999
Eisenhower Park, Long Island – July 3, 2004
PNC Bank Arts Center
PNC Bank Arts Center
The PNC Bank Arts Center is a modern amphitheatre located in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, USA. About 17,500 people can occupy the amphitheater; there are 7,000 seats and the grass area can hold about 10,500 people. Concerts are from May through September featuring 35–45 different events of...
, New Jersey – August 3, 2004
Caramoor International Music Festival
Caramoor International Music Festival
The Caramoor International Music Festival is a summer music festival founded in 1945 that is held on the estate of the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts Inc., which includes a Mediterranean-style stucco villa and is located about north of New York City in Katonah, New York.The Caramoor...
– June 30, 2002
Charles Ives Center, Danbury, CT – 2002, 2001, 1996, 1995
Brookhaven Amphitheater, Long Island
Long Island
Long Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...
– 2000, 1999
New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
100 Centennial Concert on Central Park
Central Park
Central Park is a public park in the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan...
’s Great Lawn – July 10, 1998
OpSail '92/Columbus Quincentennial, South Street Seaport
South Street Seaport
The South Street Seaport is a historic area in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located where Fulton Street meets the East River, and adjacent to the Financial District. The Seaport is a designated historic district, distinct from the neighboring Financial District...
, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
– July 4, 1992
Columbus Avenue Festival, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
– September 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988
"Welcome Home the Troops" Celebration, South Street Seaport
South Street Seaport
The South Street Seaport is a historic area in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located where Fulton Street meets the East River, and adjacent to the Financial District. The Seaport is a designated historic district, distinct from the neighboring Financial District...
, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
– June 10, 1991
New York Daily News
New York Daily News
The Daily News of New York City is the fourth most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 605,677, as of November 1, 2011....
Blimp Race, Jones Beach State Park, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
– July 5, 1986
Single Engagements
Yankee Stadium
Yankee Stadium
Yankee Stadium was a stadium located in The Bronx in New York City, New York. It was the home ballpark of the New York Yankees from 1923 to 1973 and from 1976 to 2008. The stadium hosted 6,581 Yankees regular season home games during its 85-year history. It was also the former home of the New York...
– National Anthem performed by The New York Pops Brass – October 7, 2009
Yankee Stadium – National Anthem performed by The New York Pops Brass – April 17, 2008
Ken Lavigne in Concert - Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
, New York City - January 22, 2009
Skitch Henderson
Skitch Henderson
Lyle Russell Cedric “Skitch” Henderson was a pianist, conductor, and composer. His nickname reportedly derived from his ability to quickly "re-sketch" a song in a different key.- Biography :...
: A Man and His Music – Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
– February 6, 2006
Ferguson Center for the Arts Grand Opening, Newport News, Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
– September 12, 2005
New York City Republican National Convention Host Committee Concert – September 1, 2004
Yankee Stadium – National Anthem
The Star-Spangled Banner
"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from "Defence of Fort McHenry", a poem written in 1814 by the 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, Francis Scott Key, after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British Royal Navy ships...
performed by The New York Pops Brass – June 29, 2004
Russell Watson
Russell Watson
Russell Watson is an English tenor who has released singles and albums of both operatic-style and pop songs. The self-styled "People's Tenor" had been singing since he was a child, and became known after performing at a working men's club...
-The Voice with Lea Salonga
Lea Salonga
Lea Salonga-Chien is a mezzo-soprano singer and actress from the Philippines well known for originating the lead role of Kim in the musical Miss Saigon, for which she won the Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics and Theatre World awards.She was the first Asian to play the roles of Éponine and...
and Hayley Westenra
Hayley Westenra
Hayley Dee Westenra is a New Zealand soprano, classical crossover artist, songwriter and UNICEF Ambassador. Her first internationally released album, Pure, reached No. 1 on the UK classical charts in 2003 and has sold more than two million copies worldwide...
, Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
– June 1, 2002
U.S. Military Academy, Eisenhower Hall, West Point, New York
West Point, New York
West Point is a federal military reservation established by President of the United States Thomas Jefferson in 1802. It is a census-designated place located in Town of Highlands in Orange County, New York, United States. The population was 7,138 at the 2000 census...
– December 2001, May 1990
Inaugural Reception for The Centennial of Greater New York, Gracie Mansion
Gracie Mansion
thumb|250px|Western sideGracie Mansion is the official residence of the mayor of the City of New York. Built in 1799, it is located in Carl Schurz Park, at East End Avenue and Eighty-eighth Street in Manhattan...
– September 8, 1999
Unilever United States Dinner, Natural History Museum, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
– March 18, 1999
Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite
Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years . During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll...
Tribute, Waldorf-Astoria, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
– February 17, 1999
150th Anniversary of New York Life, Avery Fisher Hall
Avery Fisher Hall
Avery Fisher Hall is a concert hall, in New York City and is part of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex. It is the home of the New York Philharmonic, with a capacity of 2,738 seats.-History:...
, Lincoln Center – July 2, 1995
Newport Centre Christmas Celebration, Jersey City, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
– December 1989, 1988, 1987
World Financial Center Dedication Ceremony, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
– October 1988
"I Love New York", Apollo Theatre
Apollo Theatre
The Apollo Theatre is a Grade II listed West End theatre, on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. Designed by architect Lewin Sharp for owner Henry Lowenfield, and the fourth legitimate theatre to be constructed on the street, its doors opened on 21 February 1901 with the American...
, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
– October 1987
"Harlem Week" with Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway
Cabell "Cab" Calloway III was an American jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City where he was a regular performer....
, Apollo Theatre
Apollo Theatre
The Apollo Theatre is a Grade II listed West End theatre, on Shaftesbury Avenue in the City of Westminster. Designed by architect Lewin Sharp for owner Henry Lowenfield, and the fourth legitimate theatre to be constructed on the street, its doors opened on 21 February 1901 with the American...
, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
– August 1986
Benefit Concerts
Young People's Chorus of New York City: Shaping Lives Through Music, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center - March 13, 2009
Lauri Strauss Leukemia Foundation Benefit Concerts, Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
– 1992-2008
Young People’s Chorus of New York City: A Decade of Dreams, Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
– October 22, 2007
Seeds of Peace to benefit camp for teenagers from war-torn countries, Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
– May 22, 2000
Tilles Center Gala XI to benefit Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, Brookville, New York – October 1991