The Boston Pops Orchestra has been played on NTS in shows including Kit Grill, featured first on 12 November 2017. Songs played include Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy, The Blue Danube and A Christmas Festival.

The Boston Pops Orchestra was founded in 1885 as a subsection of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), founded four years earlier. Careful examination of the rosters of “Pops" or “Festival" orchestras, which are associated with a co-resident symphony orchestra in the same community, shows that the principal players of a “Pops" ensemble usually hold the post of assistant or associate principal of the “parent" ensemble. In general parlance, the…