The New York Pops Tickets

The country's largest pop orchestra and New York City's single symphonic orchestra, The New York Pops is all set to put together a mesmerizing music show at the city's most prestigious music venue, the Carnegie Hall. The New York Pops tickets are now available for the upcoming event that is scheduled to take place in October. The orchestra comprises of talented musicians who perform under the expert direction of conductor, Steven Reineke.

The orchestra was founded by the former NBC music director, Skitch Henderson in 1983. Its aim was to celebrate and promote the rich music heritage of the US. In order to fulfill this purpose, seventy skilled musicians were chosen to perform concerts across the country, both in formal as well as informal settings and styles. Apart from selecting the cream of music artists, The New York Pops designed high quality educational workshops and programs in order to teach and enlighten the people about the history of the art.

The performances held by The New York Pops are picked from the Great American Songbook that consists of everything from film soundtracks to theatrical scores and from jazz to indie music. It includes the contributions of notable names of the industry such as Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim, Duke Ellington, Aaron Copland, Ron Roullier, Leonard Bernstein, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Richard Rodgers.

Other than performing at prestigious venues like the Carnegie Hall, The New York Pops also holds free music concerts in various parks around the city. This enables people from all backgrounds to easily participate in the events. In addition to city parks, the orchestra holds touring shows, presenting the country's enormous music variety throughout the world. Previously The New York Pops has held successful New Year's special concerts in cities like Tokyo and Osaka.

A nonprofit organization, The New York Pops also works in collaboration with various youth organizations and schools across the five boroughs of the city. Together they undertake to serve the lifelong cause of facilitating the emerging music talents of the country with apt training and guidance. Music classes are held to polish the creative potentials of the young generation. Apart from providing valuable knowledge and training, the symphonic orchestra even provides free concert and rehearsal passes to children so as to give them the opportunity to observe the amount of practice and hard work that goes into the process of music compositions.

The New York Pops' annual birthday gala takes place at the Carnegie Hall. It grants children the privilege to watch the event from the famous balcony of the venue. A professional music artist from the orchestra is provided residential facility at a selected city school so that he is able to devote his full time and attention to the cause of grooming young music talents. He works in close interaction with the children teaching them about various music instruments, their purpose and the products their arrangements can produce. Towards the end of the program, the school children hold a music event where they play their own original compositions.

Every Saturday, the orchestra instructors conduct after-school classes for students who want to learn and take part in music related activities. These are called 'Salute to Music'. At the end of the year, the cream of students is selected to play and share the stage with the expert musicians of The New York Pops on the occasion of its gala concert, at the Carnegie Hall.

Another prominent feature of the educational program is the 'Rhythm, Rhyme and Rap'. It lays focus on boosting the creativity and confidence of the child. The children are encouraged to choose their instruments and compose their own rhythms. The program essentially brings out the hidden capabilities and aesthetics of the young minds by guiding them towards the direction of self-discovery.

The role of The New York Pops is vital to the production of new music artists. Besides, through its various events it seeks to celebrate and entertain the classic yesteryear music hits of the country. You can now join the talented music artists as they perform at the Carnegie Hall once again. So get your The New York Pops tickets and enjoy the diverse music pieces of the Great American Songbook.