For about 100,000 people every year in my adopted home town of Boston, the Holiday Pops are a major attraction and marker of the holiday season. The modern institution as we know it today—a series of December concerts with repertoire both classical and popular, garnished by a certain man ...
which well up and seem several times on the point of flooding out. The vocal harmonies are entirely built from the notes of the C major scale, but for the most part without conventional tonal voicings; this makes the sound at once familiar and slightly strange, the strangeness intensified by...