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| Founded | 1977 (1977) |
| Location | Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Concert hall | Music Hall, Cincinnati |
| Principal conductor | John Morris Russell |
TheCincinnati Pops Orchestra is apops orchestra based inCincinnati, Ohio,United States, founded in 1977 out of theCincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Its members are also the members of the Cincinnati Symphony, and the Pops is managed by the same administration.Erich Kunzel, the Pops' founding conductor, continued to lead the Pops until his death in 2009.
In 1965,maestroMax Rudolf invitedErich Kunzel, a young conductor on the faculty ofBrown University, to join theCincinnati Symphony. That October, Kunzel, aDartmouth graduate and assistant to French conductorPierre Monteux, conducted his first "8 O'Clock" Pops concert. Over the next four decades, the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra regularly performed for packed houses inCincinnati's Music Hall and established worldwide recognition through tours and critically acclaimed, best-selling recordings on theTelarc label.
An estimated 30 million people have viewed eight national telecasts of the Cincinnati Pops on PBS, and the Orchestra has more than 100 available recordings, 56 of which have appeared on the Billboard charts, a record unmatched by any other orchestra, and sales of over 10 million units. The Pops’ Copland: Music of America won a1998 Grammy Award, and four other Pops recordings have been nominated for Grammy Awards.
In May 2008, the Pops received an invitation to the2008 Summer Olympics inBeijing, the only American orchestra to play the opening weekend.[1]
After Kunzel's death on September 1, 2009,John Morris Russell was named in December 2010 as the new director of the Pops, effective September 1, 2011.
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