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Boston Pops Holiday Pops
Boston, MA · Music
- When
- December 3–24, 2026
- Where
- Symphony Hall · Boston · MA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
The Boston Pops perform three weeks of holiday concerts at Symphony Hall each December, mixing seasonal standards with the orchestra's signature arrangements. The tradition dates back to conductor Arthur Fiedler and remains one of the city's best attended holiday events. Tickets sell out most nights.
The history within reach
- Symphony Hall openssame spot
The first concert hall designed using physics rather than instinct, by the Harvard physicist Wallace Sabine, who worked out the mathematics of reverberation for it.
- Boston Early Music Festivalsame spot
A biennial week-long celebration of historically informed early and Baroque music, built around a fully staged period opera production alongside about eighteen concerts and fringe events.
Opened on the centennial of the Boston Massacre with a collection largely of plaster casts, and grown into one of the great encyclopaedic museums, the finest collection of Japanese art outside Japan, assembled by Bostonians in the 1880s..
New England's largest film festival dedicated to films by and about people of color, screening features, documentaries, shorts and animation over about nine days at the Museum of Fine Arts and other Roxbury venues.
- The first public library0.6 mi
The first large free municipal library in America, on the then-radical principle that a city should lend books to anybody.