New York Pops summering in Forest Hills

  • 2015-07-06
The country’s largest independent pops orchestra, the New York Pops, has selected Queens as it summertime home.

An announcement in June from the renowned symphony confirmed its new summer home would be the Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, and that the tenure for this arrangement was “indefinite”. The venue will see its first two New York Pops concerts in August. The group will give away more than 1,000 free tickets to both of these events.

Founded in 1983, the 78-person orchestra performs regularly at Manhattan’s Carnegie Hall, but spends its summers playing around the city and across the nation. According to Anne Swanson, the New York Pops Executive Director, the orchestra has been searching from its very beginnings for a summer home in the city.

Swanson says that Forest Hills is the summer “home away from home” for which the group has been looking. She said that performing here under the stars will become a staple for the Pops for years to come.

The first date for the New York Pops concerts is August 6, when Sutton Foster, a Tony Award-winning singer and actress. On August 7, the orchestra will be joined by Pink Martini, a jazz band from Portland, Oregon.

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