Holiday Pops 2025 - A Charlie Brown Christmas: Live at the Symphony

About the Boston Pops

Acknowledgments

DAMON GUPTON conducting

Tuesday, December 30, 2pm

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS
by CHARLES M. SCHULZ

Based on the television special by
BILL MELENDEZ and LEE MENDELSON

This year marks the 75th anniversary of Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip and the 60th anniversary of the beloved TV special A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Today’s performance is being photographed and videorecorded. Images of the audience may be used in promotional materials. If you do not wish to be in the photos or videos, please let an usher know.

Guests are expected to drink responsibly. Intoxication will not be tolerated. Intervention with an impaired guest will be handled in a prompt and safe manner, which may include ejection from the premises.

The Boston Pops welcomes: Joanne Lally

Peanuts

The characters of Peanuts and related intellectual property are owned by Peanuts Worldwide, which is 41% owned by WildBrain Ltd., 39% owned by Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., and 20% owned by the family of Charles M. Schulz, who first introduced the world to Peanuts in 1950, when the comic strip debuted in seven newspapers. Since then, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and the rest of the Peanuts gang have made an indelible mark on popular culture. In addition to enjoying beloved Peanuts shows and specials on Apple TV+, fans of all ages celebrate the Peanuts brand worldwide through thousands of consumer products, as well as amusement park attractions, cultural events, social media, and comic strips available in all formats, from traditional to digital. In 2018, Peanuts partnered with NASA on a multi-year Space Act Agreement designed to inspire a passion for space exploration and STEM among the next generation of students.

Lee Mendelson Film Productions

Lee Mendelson Film Productions (LMFP) opened in Burlingame, California (17 miles south of San Francisco) in 1963. Fresh from their previous two-year productions at KPIX-TV (where they won a Peabody Award for the best locally produced documentaries in the country), writer-producer-director Lee Mendelson and cinematographer and editor Sheldon Fay Jr. created the documentary A Man Named Mays, which became a major hit on NBC-TV. They followed this with A Boy Named Charlie Brown, a documentary on Charles Schulz and his Peanuts characters. This led to a 38-year association with Schulz and animator Bill Melendez that created over 50 primetime network Peanuts specials and four animated feature films. Other Mendelson animation projects included 12 primetime Garfield specials and a 120-program series Garfield and Friends (with animator Phil Roman and writer Mark Evanier), plus a series of 13 shows on Mother Goose and Grimm with cartoonist Mike Peters, three primetime Cathy specials with cartoonist Cathy Guisewite, and the first two Babar the Elephant specials. LMFP has been awarded 12 primetime Emmys, and garnered numerous other Emmy nominations, as well as two Grammy and one Oscar nominations. Mendelson Productions is also the Publisher of the Vince Guaraldi Library of Charlie Brown music.