Tech Night at Pops 2025
Lead Season Sponsor
Friday, May 30, 8pm
BOSTON POPS
KEITH LOCKHART conducting
A Hymn to New England
John Williams
Carnival Overture
Dvořák
In Praise of M.I.T.
Wilbur/Kahn—arr. Gage
Mvt. 1 (Allegro) from Piano Concerto in F
Gershwin
MI-EUN KIM, piano
From Sea to Shining Sea
PAULA PLUM, narrator
MIT CHORUS, RYAN TURNER, director
Music by Stephen Flaherty, after Samuel A. Ward—orch. Bill Elliott
Lyrics by Katharine Lee Bates
Text by John de Graaf, adaptation and additional text by Lynn Ahrens
Images adapted from the film From Sea to Shining Sea: Katharine Lee Bates and the Story of America the Beautiful, directed by John de Graaf, edited by Greg Davis; produced by Laurence Cotton and Karen Olcott; illustrated by Lisa Bade; archival images courtesy of Falmouth Historical Society, Wellesley College Archives, Colorado Springs Pioneers Pioneers Museum, Colorado College Archives, and Wikimedia Commons.
INTERMISSION
Runnin’ Wild
Gibbs—arr. Nestico
St. Louis Blues
Handy—arr. Bill Elliott
Here Comes the Sun
Lennon/Paul McCartney—arr. Rob Mathes
Bohemian Rhapsody
Mercury/Queen—arr. Chris Walden
Kashmir
Jimmy Page/Robert Plant—arr. Rob Mathes
Spain
Corea—arr. Emilio Solla
All Night Long: An ’80s Sing-Along
arr. Pat Hollenbeck
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.
Photos, videos, and audio recordings are prohibited during the performance. You are welcome (and encouraged!) take photos and videos before and after the concert, and at intermission.
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Keith Lockhart
Keith Lockhart is the second longest-tenured conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra since its founding in 1885. He took over as conductor in 1995, following John Williams’s thirteen-year tenure from 1980 to 1993; Mr. Williams succeeded the legendary Arthur Fiedler, who was at the helm of the orchestra for nearly fifty years. Keith Lockhart, who occupies the Julian and Eunice Cohen Boston Pops Conductor chair, has conducted more than 2,100 Boston Pops concerts and annual Boston Pops appearances at Tanglewood, as well as 45 national tours and 5 international tours to Japan and Korea. The annual Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular conducted by Mr. Lockhart draws a live audience of over half a million to the Charles River Esplanade and millions more who view it on television or live webcast. He has led eight albums on RCA Victor/BMG Classics; recent releases on Boston Pops Recordings include A Boston Pops Christmas–Live from Symphony Hall, The Dream Lives On: A Portrait of the Kennedy Brothers, and Lights, Camera… Music! Six Decades of John Williams. The list of nearly 300 guest artists with whom Keith Lockhart has collaborated represents performers from virtually every corner of the entertainment world. Having recently completed an eight- year tenure as principal conductor, he is now chief guest conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra in London; he is also artistic director of the Brevard Music Center summer institute and festival in North Carolina. Prior to his BBC appointment, he spent eleven years as music director of the Utah Symphony. He has appeared as a guest conductor with virtually every major symphonic ensemble in North America and many in Asia and Europe. Before coming to Boston, he was the associate conductor of both the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops orchestras, as well as music director of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. For more on Keith Lockhart, visit www.bso.org/keith-lockhart or bostonpops.org.
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Mi-Eun Kim
Raised throughout the midwestern United States, pianist Mi-Eun Kim has performed on stages across the country, as well as in Europe and Asia. She is a prizewinner of the Liszt-Garrison Competition’s Liszt Award, the Corpus Christi solo prize, the International Institute for Young Musicians, Missouri Southern International Competitions and Young Arts (National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts). Festival appearances include Piano Summer at New Paltz, Gijón Piano Festival, Art of the Piano at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, PianoTexas, The Gilmore Keyboard Festival, and Kneisel Hall. Recent performances include her ongoing complete Beethoven piano sonata cycle at Beethoven @ 2020 Series at Butler University (Indianapolis, IN), Loyola University (New Orleans, LA), and Yiin Art Hall (Busan, South Korea) as well as a lecture-presentations at Atlantic Music Festival (Waterville, ME), and University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI). She appeared as a soloist with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, and Omaha Symphony. Mi-Eun is highly sought after as a collaborative pianist and chamber musician. In recent seasons she has performed with Four Corners Ensemble, premiering at Operation Opera (Spokane, WA), Innsbrook Institute (Innsbrook, MO), Garth Newel Music Center (Warm Springs, VA), Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music (Bloomington, IN), Atlantic Music Festival, (Waterville, ME), and Shepherd School of Music (Houston, TX). Mi-Eun has performed alongside Danielle Belen, Wei Yu, Simon James, Horacio Contreras, Fabiola Kim, Juliette Herlin, Elbert Tsai, Calidore Quartet, and composers William Horne and Shuying Li. She has served as faculty pianist at Sounding Point Academy and the Liberec International Violin Academy (Liberec, Czech Republic) and is currently collaborative piano and chamber music faculty at Center Stage Strings at University of Michigan. Mi-Eun is faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Music and Theater Arts, teaching piano and chamber music through the Emerson/Harris Program. She has held teaching positions at Loyola University in New Orleans and Hope College (Holland, Michigan). She received her MM, DMA and Specialist degrees at University of Michigan and holds a B.A. in History from Columbia University as part of the Barnard-Columbia-Juilliard Exchange program. Her mentors include Logan Skelton, Yong-Hi Moon, Seymour Lipkin and Richard Cass. Mi-Eun has recorded William Horne's Sextet for Piano and Winds on the Blue Griffin label.
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Paula Plum
Paula Plum is a film, TV, and stage actress whose on-screen work includes Next Stop Wonderland, Mermaids, Irrational Man and About Fate. On stage she appeared in Shakespeare’s "A Winter’s Tale" and in "Romeo and Juliet" with Actors’ Shakespeare Project. Television credits include voicing characters on "Squigglevision" (ABC), "The Dick and Paula Celebrity Special" (FX), "Hey Money" (Oxygen) and "Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist" (Comedy Central). Plum was honored by the Boston Theater Critics Association with the Elliot Norton Award for sustained excellence and for outstanding actress for "Miss Witherspoon," "Lost in Yonkers," "Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", and "The Children." Plum trained at École Phillipe Gaulier in Paris, the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, and is a cum laude graduate of Boston University’s School for the Arts, where she was honored as distinguished alumna in 2003.
Plum is also an acting coach. She is married to actor Richard Snee.
Program Notes
Boston Pops Major Corporate Sponsors, 2024-25 Season
The Boston Pops and Symphony Hall major corporate sponsorships reflect the increasing importance of alliance between business and the arts. The Boston Pops is honored to be associated with the following companies and gratefully acknowledges their partnership. For information regarding BSO, Boston Pops, and/or Tanglewood sponsorship opportunities, contact Joan Jolley, Director of Corporate Partnerships, at (617) 638-9279 or jjolley@bso.org.
