The New York Pops: “United in Sound: America at 250”
There was something inherently ambitious—perhaps even unwieldy—about The New York Pops’ season finale, “United in Sound: America at 250.” Spanning two and a half centuries of American music in a single evening, the program, curated and conducted by Steven Reineke, attempted nothing less than a musical biography of the nation. That ambition was both the concert’s greatest strength and, at times, its limiting constraint. [more]