Music Album Review: '100 Fiedler Favorites: Boston Pops - Fiedler'
(C) 1994 BMG Classics, a division of Bertelsmann Music Group My father did not invent the Boston Pops, although he was always delighted when people thought he had. “Many think that way because I’ve been in it so long and there’s almost no separation between Pops and Fiedler,” he said with uncharacteristic pride. “It’s sort of a household term, and when you’ve done it so long, the two are just as closely knit.” – Johanna Fiedler writing about her father, Arthur, in the liner notes for 100 Fiedler Favorites. I don’t remember exactly when I discovered Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra. Certainly not before I was 11 or 12; my widowed mom’s record and tape collection was small and didn’t include any light classical music albums. And in the mid-1970s, I didn’t own a lot of records, either. In fact, my one-and-only vinyl long-play (LP) album was a 33-rpm compilation of waltz music by Josef and Johann Strauss, Jr. I do know, though, that I started watching Evening at P