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Keith Alan Lockhart (born November 7, 1959) is an American conductor. He is the Conductor of the Boston Pops orchestra, the Chief Guest Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra , and the Artistic Director of the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina.
Lockhart was born into an Adventist family, became a member of the church through baptism, and studied theology at Newbold College (where he later taught) and religion at Andrews University. He works as a freelance journalist. Bull was also born into an Adventist family and spent one year at Newbold College, but never officially joined the church.
Keith Lockhart has described the "Golden Age" of Adventism (from a sociological point of view) as the fundamentalist era of the 1920s–1950s. It is to this time period the expression "historic Adventism" most accurately applies, not to 19th century Adventism. [9]
After Fiedler's death in 1979, he was succeeded as conductor of the Boston Pops by the noted film composer John Williams.Williams continued the Pops' tradition of bringing classical music to a wide audience, initiating the annual "Pops-on-the-Heights" concerts at Boston College and adding his own library of well-known film scores (including Star Wars and Indiana Jones) to the orchestra's ...
Paul D. Lockhart (born 1963) [1] is an American historian who specializes in American and Scandinavian military history. He has authored several well known books such as The Drillmaster of Valley Forge: The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army (New York: HarperCollins, 2008) and The Whites of Their Eyes: Bunker Hill, the First American Army, and the Emergence of George ...
The Orchestra’s season grew to a year-round schedule by 1980. Successors to Abravanel included Varujan Kojian (1980–1983), Joseph Silverstein (1983–1998), and Keith Lockhart (1998–2009). Under Silverstein and Lockhart, the orchestra continued its commitment to contemporary American music.
James Lockhart (disambiguation), various people, including: J. B. Lockhart (1886–1969), Scottish mathematician; James Lockhart (historian) (1933–2014), American academic and historian, specialising in colonial Latin America; James Stewart Lockhart (1858–1937), British colonial official in Hong Kong and China; Joe Lockhart (born 1959), US ...
Gilbert Vinter served as its first principal conductor. Barry Wordsworth, principal conductor from 1989 to 2006, now holds the title of Conductor Laureate.In August 2010, the orchestra announced the simultaneous appointments of Keith Lockhart as its seventh principal conductor, with immediate effect, and of Johannes Wildner as principal guest conductor.