Holy Shit. This sounds amazing. 2 Nights of Jacket accompanied by an orchestra, right in my backyard. And only 2 days after coming home from the Roo. For the third year in a row Jacket is owning my late June.
http://nemoboston.com/index.php?PID=57#4
http://collect.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=music.showDetails&Band_Show_ID=4196402&friendid=4765646
eenteresting
Congratulations!!! Composer, John Williams used to Conduct the Pops and this is remindin me of the Warp Records 'Sinfonietta' concerts where the UK had their best represented. Well, best electronically (Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada) So it's like a US counterpart, but Rock and Roll this time. :) Modern music represented like classical music. Good times! Bravo!!!
Any old who, I'm callin the kid from Brooklyn if I get shut out from tickets. & This just goes to show..Ya know F'n Big Time! Proud.
somebody HAS to tape this!
I can't believe this. On my grave, I had a dream about this the other night. Not Boston, it wasn't that specific.
Well I can tell you it was one of the most beautiful shows ever. :)
What a FANTASTIC idea.
WoooHooo, jsut got my tickets... Going both nights, wednesday with the friends, and thursday I'm taking the family (ma, pa, and sis)... balcony for wednesday and row D orchestra on Thursday...
I wanna rant some more, but I'll save it for later
HOLY FUCKING SHIT.
This sounds like it could possibly be the most beautiful night of music ever.
Just imagine some crazy shit at the end of "At Dawn" after Jim belts out the last line.
I may have just shat myself.
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I may have just shat myself.
that is so beautiful, corey. it makes me weep. :'(
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you're too young for these... ::)
ha ha
How's about a webcast? :o :o :o
Is this sold out yet?
It looks like only the June 21 tickets are on sale right now:
http://www.bostonpops.org/listB/schSeasons.jhtml?id=Pops+Performances&area=sch&start=31
Don't know if that means June 22nd is sold out or not.
Quotesomebody HAS to tape this!
Don't count on it. Guster played with the Pops last year. Their fan base contains a LOT of tapers and you can usually find tapes of their shows, but none from the Pops. I believe they (the pops) have a no taping policy. They do tape their shows although for their own use.
Maybe someone could get it with some stealth gear.
Now THIS is the perfect time for the band to show their appreciation to us fans on the message board. Let's say, whoever has more than, oh, I don't know, 860 posts, you get free tickets with round trip airfare and hotel accomadations for 2.
How 'bout it guys?
i still can't believe this. this is the greatest idea in the world.
okay, picture it, fall tour (including europe and australia, but in short spurts so people can rest): mmj travels around to different cities playing with the city's symphony orchestra.
i'd like to point out that toronto has a WONDERFUL symphony orchestra.
oh holy holy holy this is just great. do you think they'll let patrick pay the timpani? bo gets to play the fancy pianos. i bet carl can play the violin. he seems pretty good with stringed instruments. ttt on the standup bass=awesome
i know they're gonna play their real instruments, but
oh fuck, and a maestro. they will have a maestro again.
so good. this is really good.
maybe they will play a lot of orbison songs and i can sing backup. all the waas and ahhhhs. i could do that.. CRYINNNNNGG OVVERRRRR YOUUUUUUU
Quotemaybe they will play a lot of orbison songs and i can sing backup. all the waas and ahhhhs. i could do that.. CRYINNNNNGG OVVERRRRR YOUUUUUUU
maybe i can join you, and we can be the backup singers. we could make dance routines and everything. oh DUDE!! we could make autoharp duets!!!!
hehe. ;)
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maybe i can join you, and we can be the backup singers. we could make dance routines and everything. oh DUDE!! we could make autoharp duets!!!!
hehe. ;)
all i'm saying is, an orchestra needs autoharps. notice that is plural. two seats, stage right. you and me.oh, and i can play triangle.
That is fucking great.
Running Scared, oh boy, someone better record this baby.
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Don't count on it. Guster played with the Pops last year. Their fan base contains a LOT of tapers and you can usually find tapes of their shows, but none from the Pops. I believe they (the pops) have a no taping policy. They do tape their shows although for their own use.
Maybe someone could get it with some stealth gear.
Yes, I would be grateful!
dude......... maybe they will compile this performance into the live CD, like they would cull the best performances from their latest tours and treat us to loveliness.
to whomever is going, cherish it, this is way cool. like portishead with the orchestra, that was neat-o.
welp. I'm there--'nuff said!
I am very, very heavily considering buying tickets and hitching a ride from Bonnaroo directly up to Boston. How freaking amazing would that be?
*daydreaming*
Well, I bought a pair of tickets to the June 21st show, and I've got myself a ride directly from Bonnaroo to Boston... Dreams come true.
I'm curious how many people are planning on doing the Bonnaroo to Boston thing. I know I'm doing it and a couple others doing it as well. That is gonna be a great week.
Of all the MMJ shows I would really love to see this one. I bet it will sound amazing. I like what conductor Keith Lockhart said about it:
Truth be told, Lockhart had never heard My Morning Jacket before BSO artistic coordinator Margo Saulnier recommended the group. ''What I don't like are bands who sound the same on every song," Lockhart says. ''But this band is into a lot of interesting sounds, from blues to hard rock. I listened to them and said, 'We can contribute something.' " My Morning Jacket, whose singer Jim James told us he's always wanted to play with an orchestra, will be at Symphony Hall June 21 and 22
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2006/04/17/sound_snafus_mar_cooks_comedy/
This really does sound amazing!
Yet another concert that I have no chance of seeing & can only dream about *sighs deeply*
Sure as hell hope this turns up as an official CD someday but I doubt it will anytime soon due to the upcoming Live CD/DVD?
Also sighing deeply....
I actually looked into plane tickets as if I could afford it.
Well don't worry I won't be going either, sadly..sniff..sniff. :'( Well hopefully they do put out a DVD because this would be an AMAZING show! I am truly jealous of those of you who can go. You'll have to give us full details!
ohhh man.... I'm dying here!!! what on earth shall I do??? I think this will be such an amazing pair of shows...
But it's right during the annual rainbow gathering...colorado... hmmmm do I skip out on my family to see mmj with the boston pops?? can I do both? am I superman?
wait...what am I talking about? I can barely afford the mmj/pj shows in may.... ohhh I'm in deep baby....but if you actually are reading this than you're probably in even deeper!!!! eh?
just got my tickets for the show. i spoke with someone at the bso on the phone this morning. apparently the floor seats are tables w/ food and drinks. interesting. i am soooo excited about this. anyone have thoughts on songs that might fit well w/ the orchestra. i was thinking strangulation would be amazing with that big swell of music at the beginng and then how it just drops into pure melancholy. i also think wordless chorus would be awesome. oh and what about freaking dondante. holy shit i think i've got a hard on.
They've gotta play The Way That He Sings, without a doubt. My heart will melt.
Speakings of hearts melting... Wouldn't it suck if this show wasn't recorded? I'm thinking about e-mailing BSO and MMJ both, asking/begging this show to be recorded.
It'd be an absolute travesty if this show wasn't put on CD/DVD.
QuoteIt'd be an absolute travesty if this show wasn't put on CD/DVD.
I quite agree - this HAS to be released!!!
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a DVD of this. If they are putting the Fillmore DVD out this year, it doesn't seem likely that another DVD will be out as well. It wouldn't make much sense unless the management wants to try something new.
While I would fucking love to see this show, I don't see it being officially released. :(
I could be wrong though. I have been known to be horribly inaccurate before.
:)
There are a ton of songs I would want to here them play, but a few that would be very cool would be Steam Engine, Gideon-with an extended intro, One Big Holiday would be epic... there are just too many to name really. Wish I was going.
strangulation has to be done.
and the bear. think about it. starting out with just that drum and bass line, and then exploding the way it does in the middle with not only a five piece band but a whole frickin orchestra and then dying down to that one last foreeeeeeeeeverrrrrrrr..... with just jim. ohhhh gosh. i wish i could go to this. how much are tickets?
I actually listened to the entire At Dawn album last night with an ochastra in mind and man did it sound good in my head.
If they don't at least put this on CD than I am going to find someone who went to the show and hook them up to my memory extraction/re-insertion device and steal their memories. As soon as I invent one that is.
that is Such an awesome idea!!!!!!!
QuoteI actually listened to the entire At Dawn album last night with an ochastra in mind and man did it sound good in my head.
If they don't at least put this on CD than I am going to find someone who went to the show and hook them up to my memory extraction/re-insertion device and steal their memories. As soon as I invent one that is.
Yes you gotta email them!!! we should try to contact as many people as possible about recording this show!!!
QuoteThey've gotta play The Way That He Sings, without a doubt. My heart will melt.
Speakings of hearts melting... Wouldn't it suck if this show wasn't recorded? I'm thinking about e-mailing BSO and MMJ both, asking/begging this show to be recorded.
It'd be an absolute travesty if this show wasn't put on CD/DVD.
so pumped, especially since this is my first show. Been listening to MMj for about 2 years, yet they always seem to find a way to play shows around me. Either im away at school and have to no way to get to shows or im away. Finally i have a ticket to MMJ. what better way to kick off my first show w/ an orchestra.
Wow, what an amazing first show!
Welcome to the forum rbroady, have a good one! :)
the thursday show is definitely on schedule as well as wednesday...just got tickets...man I am sooo excited.
I talked to someone at "the pops" who said "most likely" will be the same set both nights as the rehersal times wouldn't be enough really to work on two seperate sets...that makes sense i think or else I might try to go to both nights. anybody got some thoughts on this? do you think it will be the same set? or really close?....
This absolutely has to be recorded...the same person I talked to didn't have much of a guess as to whether it would be or not. he said that there is sometimes conflict between the recording contracts of the guests and "the pops"....and recommended sending an email...
customerService@bso.org
Here are some links containing information about when Guster played with the Pops last year. It may clear up some of your questions.
http://www.guster.com/cat-bin/board/show?topic_id=2;list_only=1;noheader=1;ctn=rj12px;tn=guster_diarieslatest;id=4956
http://www.guster.com/dcforum/DCForumID2/433.html
http://www.guster.com/dcforum/DCForumID2/434.html
hmmmm...kinda adds to the anticipation, really.
it should make for a much tighter show the second night. all the kinks will be worked out
cOULDN'T BUY TIX ARE BOTH SHOWS SOLD OUT OR IS IT JUST ME BEING AN IDIOT?
QuotecOULDN'T BUY TIX ARE BOTH SHOWS SOLD OUT OR IS IT JUST ME BEING AN IDIOT?
I don't know you well enough to call ya any names but there are still tix available for both the 21st and 22nd. If you follow the link in the 1st post on this thread and click on "Schedule" on the page you arrive at, you can shuffle through the dates and find the MMJ gigs that way. Its a great site too because they show you photos of the stage view from the seats you select in a preview screen--excellent for making your final choice.
Quoteit should make for a much tighter show the second night. all the kinks will be worked out
that's what i'm thinking too...got tix for thursday...better seats available also. they have a pretty good seating chart if ya look close enough and kind of imagine the view...
when asked about possible recordings of the pops show...
mike martinovich replied : "We're still trying to figure out if we can record the Boston Pops show, so stay tuned...it's, as I'm sure you can imagine, more complicated than most shows."
hmmm...I hope they work it out
;D
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does that mean you're goin' or what?
is the rest of mmj gonna play too, or is it just jim :-/
Quoteis the rest of mmj gonna play too, or is it just jim :-/
all of em
CC, I cannot ignore it any longer. Is your avatar an artistic rendering of you, or is it Jeff Lynne?
we were lucky enough to see "the maestro" a month or so ago...he's doing well, thank you...he booked a show for us in Boone Nc.....thanks maestro!!!!! ;)
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Boston friggin Pops! I can't stop sayin' it!
alas, my plans were thwarted by lack of monetary fundage. i hope someone gets a recording of this.
I am so happy that we have a guy as open and hip as Keith Lockhart conducting the Pops and picking such smoking talent to work with 'grins foolishly' ;D
I finally put aside the time to write an e-mail for both the Boston Pops and My Morning Jacket management - asking if the show will be taped... I'm hoping all of you guys will do the same... if we have enough people inquire, maybe something can be arranged.
8)
So far the only response I got was from BSO, which was some lame automatic response wanting me to buy tickets to some sort of regal dinner get-together, charity for the BSO.
Sorry, I won't pay $75 for a dinner, but I will pay $20 for a double-disc of MMJ @ Boston Pops.
;D
I've said it before and I'll say it again.... Don't get your hopes up.
They already recorded the Fillmore shows and doing something like that isn't very cheap.
The cost of recording something like what is going to happen at the Fillmore would be much more expensive than that.
Is it really so expensive for the BSO to record the audio and offer the files up for download? I don't feel like I'm asking much.
Depends on what kind of quality recording you want? If there going to be in a room that is mostly used for symphonic performances, an audience recording will sounds like balls.
The only decent way to get a recording would be to mic each instrument.
How many instruments will be playing with the orchestra? You gotta take that into account. Then you have to factor in the cost of the recording equipment (board, etc...) and the cost of the engineers.
Yeah, it's asking quite a bit.
I would kill for a quality recording, however, even if someone gets a crappy ass recording I want to hear it, just so I can get a general idea of what it was like. In other words, I would take whatever I could get.
http://theedge.bostonherald.com/artsNews/view.bg?articleid=138445
Pops rocks: Boston music institution goes from stodgy to edgy
By Keith Powers
Tuesday, May 9, 2006
"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Elvis Costello.
"And I'm sure you'll enjoy Kentucky rockers My Morning Jacket.
"And how about a hand for Aimee Mann, former Top 40 hitmaker for Boston band 'Til Tuesday!"
Where are we? The Orpheum? Tweeter Center?
Nope. We are in Symphony Hall with New England's hip new booking agent: the Boston Pops.
"As Keith Lockhart likes to say, 'This is not your grandmother's Pops,' " said Dennis Alves, artistic programming director of the Pops and part of the brain trust, along with Lockhart, who plots how toget audiences through the door.
"We try to find the things that are the most interesting musically," Alves said. "A lot of it is done by feel. We are bombarded by people who want to work with us. And although we want to give our loyal audience what they want, we also want to ensure that we have a life beyond the next 10 or 20 years."
What Alves is talking about specifically is the series called Pops on the Edge, which takes over the Symphony Hall stage for four performances: June 21 and 22 with My Morning Jacket and June 28 and 29 with Mann (Costello is not actually part of the on the Edge series; his classical crossover work, "Il Sogno," is the highlight of the Pops' opening night performance Thursday.)
"Pops on the Edge was a spectacular success in its debut last year with the acoustic pop-rock trio Guster," Alves said. "I don't think we did a formal poll or anything, but we had plenty of anecdotal evidence from the ushers and people in the hall. The audience stayed for the whole performance, and heard Debussy and Tod Machover as well. If we can find a way to get a new audience into the hall to hear that, then that's a success.
Alves truly doesn't feel this pop/rock injection strays from the Pops' mission.
"If you really take a look at the history of the Boston Pops, Arthur Fiedler strove to present the most current popular artists, right up until he died," he said. "Our philosophy is not that different. We can't be a museum piece doing Gershwin or film music all the time."
For Boston Pops schedule and ticket information, call 617-266-1200 or go to www.bostonpops.org.
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2006/05/10/the_pops_adds_some_pop/
The Pops adds some pop
Programming aims at a broader audience
By Geoff Edgers, Globe Staff | May 10, 2006
Keith Lockhart had never heard of the rock band My Morning Jacket. But the Boston Pops conductor knows his audience. And over the years, it's been getting older and less willing to come to Symphony Hall.
So the Pops has booked My Morning Jack-et, along with onetime punk rocker Elvis Costello and brooding singer-songwriter AimeeMann. Tonight, Costello headlines the first Pops opener to sell out Symphony Hall in eight years. The new strategy continues later this month with the inaugural Pops Jazz Fest, which will feature crooning guitarist John Pizzarelli, sultry singer Jane Monheit, and groups of Berklee College of Music students jamming throughout the hall.
The programming changes have made an impression even on the performers.
''The Pops of old, you definitely thought of John Williams and the 'Theme to E.T.,' " said Mann, 45, who lived in Boston for nearly two decades before moving to Los Angeles. ''What they're doing now is making a concert somebody like me would actually want to see."
Pops management is quick to point out that the orchestra, still one of the best known in the country, isn't looking to abandon a core audience raised on Arthur Fiedler's programs and the many ''themed" music nights added in the nearly three decades since the conductor's death.
Williams, Fiedler's successor, will be back for a series of concerts starting tomorrow night. He will lead the Pops in selections from the many film scores he's composed, including ''Star Wars" and ''Jaws."
But the Pops has seen its attendance fall from a high of 93 percent of Symphony Hall's capacity in 2000 to 88 percent last year. As a result, the Pops this year have cut two Celtic music concerts and reduced the number of patriotic music shows from three to two. Last year, two of those patriotic concerts played to just over 60 percent of Symphony Hall's 2,300-seat capacity.
Cutting those shows opened up spots for the Mann and My Morning Jacket concerts, known as ''Pops on the Edge." Together with Jazz Fest, the programming changes account for nine of the 39 concerts in the Pops season.
''Basically, we want to segment the audience more," said marketing director Kim Noltemy. ''We want to drive younger people to one type of concert, and have the traditional crowd go to the traditional concerts."
Last year, the Pops tested the rock-show strategy on its audience by playing two concerts with rock band Guster. Both sold out, and led to the unlikeliest of sights in the hallowed hall: Audience members, in jeans and tank tops, dancing in the aisles.
They made an impression.
''We looked down and could see people who never come to hear us," said Lockhart. ''It was a relief. Our hunch was correct."
That's no surprise, according to Arthur Cohen of the New York-based arts consultants LaPlaca Cohen. The key for an organization with the rich history of the Pops is to balance the new with the most successful, crowd-pleasing traditions.
''They don't want to alienate the existing audience but they have to be thinking ahead," said Cohen, whose firm has been helping museums and music presenters target what he calls ''YoCos," the ''young cosmopolitans" that have become an important player in the arts market. ''What the Pops is worried about is the next generation of cultural patrons."
One of Cohen's clients, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has introduced programming designed to reach that younger audience. Earlier this year, the Philharmonic booked an all-night, electronic music party with the British group the Orb in Walt Disney Hall. Last year, at its summer venue, the Hollywood Bowl, the Philharmonic presented ''Video Games Live," music performed with lasers, lights, and live characters from ''Final Fantasy" and ''Halo." (A stop in Boston last November had to be canceled when, due to poor ticket sales, organizers scaled back a tour.) This season, the orchestra will play with Scottish chamber pop band Belle & Sebastian.
''What's the risk?" said Arvind Manocha, general manager of the Hollywood Bowl. ''The risk is that people don't like it, that it's not a good, artistic product. But we don't just say, 'Let's put a band in front of an orchestra.' We're trying to find groups and artists that we think would really take advantage of having an entire orchestra at their disposal."
The upside is clear. Arlington's Hannah Schwab, 26, has never been to Symphony Hall. She didn't hesitate to buy tickets for a My Morning Jacket concert after seeing the June 21 and 22 shows announced on jambase.com.
''I'm excited," she said. ''My Morning Jacket has a lot of songs that incorporate violins and I thought it would be awesome to see with a symphony."
Lockhart has been looking forward to the show. The new strategy has seen him relying more on Margo Saulnier, the 32-year-old Pops artistic coordinator who scours Boston's rock clubs looking for potential talent.
It has also meant Lockhart is downloading more songs onto his iPod. He's become a fan of singer-songwriter Amos Lee and hopes to schedule Pops shows with the band Death Cab For Cutie.
Costello was a natural, he says -- an artist who came of age during the late 1970s but whose musical breadth includes country, big band, and even classical. He's in the midst of a short symphony tour. During the first part of tonight's concert, the Pops will play music from ''Il Sogno," Costello's first full-length orchestral work.
Paul Deninger, an investment banker and one of the co-chairs of tonight's event, said that many of his peers now live and work in the suburbs and rarely come into Boston on weeknights, unless they're going to a Red Sox game. That's the climate the Pops needs to compete in, and that's what makes Costello so perfect.
Deninger said he had no problem recruiting business leaders to purchase tables, which cost as much as $10,000 apiece.
''It was a snap," said Deninger. ''I think most of the guys I called, if I said, 'You've got to support it,' they'd support it. But they're actually excited about going and saying 'Thank you' for calling them. It's not an obligation or an act of philanthropy."
Geoff Edgers can be reached at gedgers@globe.com
did anybody see the words from guster that someone posted a link to on here?? man, that put together with these articles makes me a little nervous...I think I'll riot if things are too snooty down there in bean town....god I want to go to the mmj/pj show in 2 weeks!!! arghhh
I would find it deliciously humorous if they play "Run Thru" with the Pops. Can you imagine the reaction to "Oh SHIT Run!"... :D
http://www.weeklydig.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/article.view/issueID/96ce9d11-f4c1-4372-b73e-97696d0b60ff/articleID/5e32bfe0-3150-4d66-9699-5cfea5cf21a9/nodeID/5666324c-2898-4bdc-a362-4afcac799fcd
My Morning Jacket + Boston Pops | 6.21–6.22
Backwoods alt-rockers My Morning Jacket will be joining the Boston Pops onstage at Symphony Hall. And they're not just waving batons around or some shit—they're actually playing their instruments along with the orchestra. This might be the most bizarre Pops-related pairing since Keith Lockhart and heterosexual marriage. Also, the current odds of the band getting the string section totally baked are 3-1. [Symphony Hall. www.bso.org]
Im confused, in one of those articles someone said that my morning jacket have 'a lot of songs that incorporate violins'...
whaa? i cant think of many mmj songs that have violins..
Quote... an audience recording will sounds like balls.
That's good, right?
;)
I hate to bump this for a personal request, but I'm absolutely in desperation here...
If any one of you here who is going from Bonnaroo to Boston Pops could maybe make room for a hitch hiker... Uh... I would be forever greatful, and would gladly pay up som gas money. I've never hitched a ride before, certainly not for a 15+ hour drive... but god damnit, I cannot miss this show.
My planned ride to Boston isn't looking to be a completely sure thing, so I'd really, really like a backup plan... if anyone would be interested in helping a fellow Jacketeer out, please PM me!
Much love.
someone help this dude out!!
mmj in a tennessee field on a big ass stage cannot be missed...