AE No Boston POPS They have gone to CBS (Vanity)

07-04-2003 | Myself

[dts32041]

Forgive the Vanity, is anyone else disappointed that the Boston Pops has gone to CBS and there show has been cut from 2 1/2 hours to one.

Will A&E did a pretty good job with the NSO, even if they had a few cliches at the start.

I also did mis the 105's during the 1812 overture.

[quidnunc]

Watch the second showing of "A Capitol Fourth" on PBS.

You'll still be able to catch Dolly Parton.

[Gorzaloon]

We just heard the Mormon Tabernacle Choir AND the Boston Pops do the 1812.

If it was not networked, it's a crime because:

WE HAVE NEVER HEARD ANYTHING LIKE THAT IN OUR LIVES!

I thought I was going to faint. We sat NUMB afterwards.

[jern]

yes, very much so... AE always did a good job.

[RonF]

In 1975 I sat on the Esplanade on the 4th and listened to the Boston Pops with Arthur Fiedler. I didn't so much hear the 105's as I felt them, sitting as I was about 80 feet from them.

Guns don't go "Boom!", folks. They go * WHAM! *

[Servant of the Nine]

I am watching the Pops, and Leeanne Rimes should drink battery acisd after tonight. She is nowhere near good enought to sing after the Mormon Tabernacle Choir without sounding like a fool.

So9

[Morgan's Raider]

Our little ol' Nashville Symphony did a respectable job, especially considering it's still about 90 degrees here. I was a trumpet player during my misspent youth, and playing the works they performed is not an easy feat in an air-conditioned auditorium, much less in this heat and humidity.

FYI, the fireworks show was probably the biggest in Nashville history. I'm kinda ticked that I left downtown about 6:00 and missed it up close and personal.

All in all, I think we done ourselves proud.

[SnarlinCubBear]

Yup, I'm disappointed. I REALLY look forward to the entire performance each year. I feel....cheated...:(

[Stefan Stackhouse]

It is kinda strange that the 1812 Overture has become so associated with the US Independence day, given that it was composed to celebrate a Czarist Imperial Russian military victory. Of course, since that was a victory over the French, why not celebrate?

[mickie]

What channel did that come on?

[Euro-American Scum]

Forgive the Vanity, is anyone else disappointed that the Boston Pops has gone to CBS and there show has been cut from 2 1/2 hours to one.

Big time. I used to catch it early on the west coast (4:00 PM) before the festivities began out here. You ask me, the Boston Pops put on the best 4th of July Concert in the country. It's the one concert I still want to attend in person. Missed it again this year. (Sigh!)

[Euro-American Scum]

Of course, since that was a victory over the French, why not celebrate?

Because beating the French is like going fishing for blue marlin and catching a bonita. You kind of want to throw it back.

[dts32041]

Ain't that the truth, played a 105 in 1976 for the 4th.

Don't ask and I won't tell.

[Brimack34]

I watched my money worth on pbs it was well done. Also Watch I am Yankee Doodle Dandy(I think) with James Cagney.
It was on tonight.

[jackbill]

After living in Massachusetts for a number of years, and watching the 4th celebration, I suggest that fans get a CD or DVD and play it every year, because the program doesn't change.

[RioSmith]

CBS has ruined the Boston Pops 4th. No complete 1812, half the music, and half the fireworks.

I hope everyone lets CBS and their sponsors now how we liked it!

[RioSmith]

CBS has ruined the Boston Pops 4th. No complete 1812, half the music, and half the fireworks.

I hope everyone lets CBS and their sponsors know how we liked it!

[dts32041]

Hey they don't care about the money, after all look what they have to pay bryant gumble, besides the pops tv started with walter the liar cronkite as the narrator.

Maybe it isn't such a big lose.

[Frank_2001]

WOO-HOOOOOOO!!!!! Believe me, if you missed Dolly you missed a treat!;)

[andysandmikesmom]

We were very disappointed with seeing that the Pops concert was no longer on A&E....I am on the west coast...and every year on A&E, we would get the full program, and they would run it twice, so you could watch it either time, depending on what else you might want to watch....

This year, the Pops concert will not be on until 10pm Pacific time....but that is also the time that our local fireworks shows from Seattle are shown....

Since I have not seen the show yet, and am hearing all the negative reviews, and added to that, the show is really cut down in time, I am not at all happy...

This sucks....and I dont intend to watch the Pops show at all now...I wonder what happened that A&E is no longer carrying Pops...was this a decision by A&E, or a decision by the Pops to switch networks...

I am really disappointed...