Boston Pops Orchestra Arthur Fiedler, Conductor • Jalousie [1963]

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"Dynagroove" pressing. 

LP housed in a custom dust sleeve with credits and technical info about the recording.

An excerpt from "Dynagroove What It Is, What It Does"by "Hans H. Fantel" 

appears on the back of the dust sleeve.

Arthur Fiedler Conducting The Boston Pops Orchestra Music For A Summer Night [1955]

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"This night is the work of a sorcerer. We hear the music again and are glad; the clouds disappear, the sky lightens, the moon rises higher, and long after the music has ceased it is still playing within us, making of this night one which will forever be ours - that  wonderful night when the world stood still." [Excerpt liner notes by Bill Zeitung]

Arthur Fiedler Conducting The Boston Pops Orchestra Concert In The Park [1963]

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Arthur Fiedler Conducting The Boston Pops Slaughter On Tenth Avenue and Other Hits From The Big Shows [1964]

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Fiedler and the Boston Pops recorded from the 1950s through the 1970s with RCA records (with brief excursions to other labels toward the end), issuing disc after disc of classical overtures and ballet pieces, as well as arrangements of movie themes, Beatles hits, and other pop tunes. Pops concerts were packaged as fast-moving one-hour shows on the PBS television network. Critics usually ignored or snickered at Fiedler's handling of pop music, but they almost always approved of the verve he brought to light and not-so-light classics; indeed, his 1930s recording of a particular Beethoven overture was held in higher esteem than Toscanini's. Whether Fiedler's Beethoven Seventh could have stood up to Toscanini's will never be known.

Arthur Fiedler Conducting The Boston Pops Orchestra Tenderly [1965]

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Arthur and the Boston Pops brought music lovers from all over the country and the world to Symphony Hall for a remarkable 50 years. Mr. Fiedler conducted the Pops for five seasons longer than all of his seventeen predecessors combined, and through his originality, his warm and sometimes mysterious stage presence, and his inimitable style, the distinguished white-haired gentleman on the podium became one of Boston's best-known, best-loved citizens.

Among memorable events of the Fiedler era were the Fiftieth Anniversary Esplanade concert of July 4, 1978; the building of the Hatch Shell in time for the Esplanade season of 1940; the occasion of the Maestro's seventy-fifth birthday, when his son Peter presented him a surprise gift on behalf of the whole family: an honest-to-goodness, full-size fire engine(!); and the Esplanade concert of July 4, 1976, which was heard by over 400,000 people, declared by the Guinness Book of World Records the largest single audience for a classical music concert. [Courtesy PBS Website]