fiedler said, that's the 1812 overture. he said, that should be a july 4 thing.f humor go, it is a russian piece written about a victory over the french. charlie: are there other orchestras like the boston pops in other countries? keith lockhart: elements of. and certainly, the boston pops like so many things in america are based on european models. on the summer concerts and biergartens of germany. and the prom in london. i think the mix of things we do is probably unique among orchestras in the world. charlie: you have said that part of your job is to protect the tradition of live music. keith lockhart: i think, these days, pretty much every performing artist, part of their job is to protect tradition and sell the concept. we live in an age where so many people get their entertainment and cultural information in increasingly insular pods. the performing arts are about engaging the community and other people to experience art live. to be part of the performance. as you know, in the web-based culture we live in, that is more and more out of fashion but absolute n

it was founded by hairy -- who was artzup fiedler's assistants conductor and dukakis' father. interesting connections in massachusetts. so we worked with them to determine something that they think will play well for their audience. and as you know there's 15,000 people come together in this wonderfully old fast american scene with picnic blankets out and list anything to music. >> rose: you also conducted bbc concert orchestra. what is that? >> that is one of five or orchestras believe it or not that are employed by the bbc in

it was founded by hairy -- who was artzup fiedler's assistants conductor and dukakis' father. connections in massachusetts. so we worked with them to determine something that they think will play well for their audience. and as you know there's 15,000 people come together in this wonderfully old fast american scene with picnic blankets out and list anything to music. >> rose: you also conducted bbc concert orchestra. what is that? >> that is one of five or orchestras believe it or not that are employed by the bbc in the united kingdom. two in london. one of the one is in london. this is an orchestra that does many different things. i just did a three week tour in the east coast of the united states with them, 14 concerts in 21 days. that was very much traditional classical symphonic repertoire but this is the or coast tra that does much of the sound tracking. if you've seen frozen planet or blue planet that's my orchestra. it's nicely with the boston pops job. i love those and the commute between boston and london is not a very difficult one. >> rose: thank you for coming. >>