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Pops LIVE! Series

Another fantastic season of musical entertainment is ready for your delight at the 2009-2010 ACXIOM POPS LIVE! Join the musicians of the ASO as they perform the dazzling variety you’ve come to expect from this series: music from the movies, from Broadway, beloved light classics,  and, our special Christmas performance. There’s something to love for everyone at every concert! Won’t you join us?

 


 

MOTOWN GOLD with JEANS ‘N CLASSICS
September 18 & 19, 2009
8:00 PM

Geoffrey Robson, conductor 

From Smokey Robinson and The Supremes to Gladys Knight and Marvin Gaye, this music is the soundtrack of your life; and on this concert Jeans ’n Classics celebrates the Golden Anniversary of Motown and the unique sound of its legendary stars! Some of the Top 40 hits you’ll love hearing again include “My Girl,” “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg,” and “Reach Out, I’ll Be There.” You be there, too, on this soul-filled journey down memory lane! 
 
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HOLIDAY POPS
December 18 & 19, 2009
8:00 PM

Geoffrey Robson, conductor
 
This holiday season join us for a true variety show, featuring an array of Arkansas-based talent performing with the orchestra in a wide range of popular musical genres. Holiday spirit will abound as dancers, singers, solo performers, popular bands, and choirs join forces with the Arkansas Symphony to celebrate the Christmas season.
 


 
IN LOVE WITH BROADWAY
February 12 & 13, 2010
8:00 PM

Geoffrey Robson, conductor
Christiane Noll, soprano
Doug LaBrecque, tenor
 
The perfect concert for Valentine’s Day: a celebration of love, Broadway-style! You and your special someone are invited to start your romantic evening at the ASO Pops with love songs from movies and musicals: from the sophisticated (Cole Porter‘s “Begin the Beguine”) to the classics (a West Side Story medley) and mega-hits (“Music of the Night” from Phantom of the Opera). 
 
 

 
PORGY AND BESS IN CONCERT
March 12 & 13, 2010
8:00 PM

Geoffrey Robson, conductor
Chorus and soloists TBA

George and Ira Gershwin's Porgy and Bess comes to life at the first-ever ASO presentation of highlights from this quintessential American classic. The denizens of Catfish Row in Charleston, South Carolina—Porgy, Bess, Clara, and Sportin' Life—sing their unforgettable songs: the gorgeous "Summertime," the romantic "Bess You is My Woman Now," the upbeat "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'," the seductive "It Ain't Necessarily So,"  and the chorus intoning complex harmonies during a raging hurricane.
 
 

 
SPOTLIGHT ON HOLLYWOOD
May 7 & 8, 2010
8:00 PM

Carl Topilow, conductor
 
Break out the buttered popcorn and settle into your stadium seats. It’s time for music from the movies at the Pops! You’ll hear selections from your favorite movie classics, past and present … including The Wizard of Oz, The Empire Strikes Back, Psycho, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Lord of the Rings. For extra fun and entertainment, our affable guest maestro and clarinetist, Carl Topilow, will test your movie knowledge with a trivia quiz.

 

 
 
 
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