Bob Lappin & The Palm Beach Pops Honor the Legacy of Louis Armstrong February 6-8 & 10-12, 2012
Bob Lappin & The Palm Beach Pops
January 13, 2012
Bob Lappin & The Palm Beach Pops celebrate the great Louis Armstrong with Tony Award Winner Lillias White and renowned trumpeter and vocalist Longineu Parsons to honor the everlasting legacy of this legendary musician. With a six-night South Florida engagement entitled “Wonderful World: A Salute to Louis Armstrong,” this concert will run February 6 & 7 at the Kravis Center, West Palm Beach, February 8, 10 & 11 at The Carole and Barry Kaye Performing Arts Auditorium at FAU, Boca Raton and February 12 at the Eissey Campus Theatre at Palm Beach State College in Palm Beach Gardens. Fans will swing to the sounds of classic Armstrong standards such as "Hello Dolly," "Mack the Knife," and "Wonderful World," among many other favorites.
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Vegas Entertainer Clint Holmes Premiers "INSPIRED" with Bob Lappin and The Palm Beach Pops
Bob Lappin & The Palm Beach Pops
December 20, 2011
Back by popular demand, Vegas entertainer Clint Holmes returns to join Bob Lappin & the Palm Beach Pops for their 20th Anniversary Season. He will be premiering his brand new show entitled "Inspired". This show includes a medley of songs that have inspired Clint. The concert will include music from Nat King Cole, Bobby Darin, Marvin Gaye, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Jackson, Lena Horne and more.
Since moving to Las Vegas, Clint has quickly become a favorite in the Las Vegas community as well as a rising star in the entertainment arena. He was selected as “Best Kept Secret” by Las Vegas Life Magazine, and “Best Singer” (two years in a row), "Best All-Around Las Vegas Performer” and “Favorite Male Las Vegan” by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Clint was inducted into the Buffalo Musical Hall of Fame and into the Casino Legends Hall of Fame.
Four Mayors in Palm Beach County Honor Bob Lappin & The Palm Beach Pops 20th Anniversary
Bob Lappin & The Palm Beach Pops
November 7, 2011
Twenty years of guardianship of The Great American Songbook have been recognized by the mayors of four cities - Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, Boca Raton and Palm Beach Gardens. Each respective mayor has issued an official proclamation designating the opening concert day in each venue as The Official Bob Lappin & The Palm Beach Pops 20th Anniversary Day.
The first proclamation, presented by Palm Beach Councilman Richard Kleid, was given during the opening night concert at the Kravis Performing Arts Center in West Palm Beach onFriday, November 4, 2011. The audience, many of them subscribers for more than a decade (and even up to 20 years), cheered as Bob Lappin was recognized for his two decade-long stewardship of one of the nation's top orchestras. Upon receiving the Proclamation, Maestro Bob Lappin thanked the audience members and the orchestra for creating and maintaining what has become recognized as South Florida's premier pops orchestra.
Thousands of Music Fans to Celebrate Cultural Icon's 20th Anniversary in South Florida
Bob Lappin & The Palm Beach Pops
November 1, 2011
Thousands of music lovers will soon be hearing the exciting music of The Great American Songbook when Bob Lappin and The Palm Beach Pops return to the South Florida stages to celebrate their 20th concert season beginning November 4, 2011.
Known for their signature themed concerts, The Palm Beach Pops will launch its 2011-2012 season with acclaimed performances of the most requested songs from the past 20 years of concerts and bring back all-time favorite performers such as Clint Holmes, Lillias White, David Burnham and Lynn Roberts, as well as showcasing some of today’s top performers including John Pagano and Lea Salonga.
Music director and conductor Bob Lappin will lead the orchestra into a celebratory season with six commemorative concert series at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach, The Carole and Barry Kaye Performing Arts Auditorium at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and the Eissey Campus Theatre in Palm Beach Gardens.
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Palm Beach Pops Inspires Children With the Power of Music and Free Concert
Bob Lappin & The Palm Beach Pops
November 1, 2011
The Palm Beach Pops will provide a free performance for 750 elementary school children in Palm Beach Gardens this Thursday. The Music & You Education Program culminates on October 27th at the Eissey Theatre at Palm Beach State College with a live concert performed by Bob Lappin and the Palm Beach Pops orchestra for students and teachers. The students and music fans in attendance will get to enjoy pieces from The Pink Panther and The Flintstones as well as “It Don’t Mean A Thing,” “Rhapsody in Blue,” “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” “Strings on Fire” and other true American classics. In addition to the hundreds of students in the audience, one student from each school will be chosen to accompany the orchestra during a musical selection, while another group of promising students will appear on stage to assist Maestro Lappin in conducting the orchestra.
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Palm Beach Pops to Open 20th Concert Season Friday with New Star
Bob Lappin & The Palm Beach Pops
November 1, 2011
Bob Lappin & The Palm Beach Pops planned to open the 20th Anniversary Season on November 4, 2011 at the Kravis Center with veteran actor and singer Tom Wopat. As a result of his continued successful career, Wopat canceled his run with The Pops due to landing a role in an upcoming feature film.
In his place, The Palm Beach Pops have secured another popular singer, Tony Desare. Singer, pianist and songwriter, DeSare – whose third CD Radio Show was released earlier this year – was named a “Rising Star” Male Vocalist in the 2009 Downbeat Critics Poll. He has won critical and popular acclaim for his concert performances throughout the United States as well as in Australia, Japan and Hong Kong.
What sets Desare apart is his ability to also write original material that sounds fresh and blends seamlessly with the Great American Songbook, which is why Maestro Bob Lappin chose him to perform in the opening series, The American Songbook Spectacular, alongside legendary Lynn Roberts.
Bob Lappin and The Palm Beach Pops Announce 2010-2011 Concerts
Bob Lappin & The Palm Beach Pops
July 1, 2010
BOB LAPPIN & THE PALM BEACH POPS ANNOUNCE 2010-2011 CONCERTS
Programs to include: Let It Be…The Beatles, The Best of Broadway, The Streisand Songbook, An Evening of Rodgers & Hart, Celebrating the Great Sammy Davis, Jr. and The Music of Billy Joel.
Guest Artists include Clint Holmes, Michael Cavanaugh, The Nylons, and The John Pizzarelli Quartet
Palm Beach Pops Youth Program Gives Kids the Magic of Music
Bob Lappin & The Palm Beach Pops
May 7, 2010
During the school year, Charlie, a first grade student at Liberty Park Elementary School, experienced the loss of his mother. Since then, he’s had trouble coping with her passing and difficulties interacting with other students. Last week, Charlie met musicians from the Palm Beach Pops orchestra who are visiting his school for their weekly Music & You classroom session. Charlie learned to sing a new song that was taught to the class, and it reminded him of his mom. The healing power of music touches the human heart and soul, bringing hope and comfort through even the darkest times.
“My mom’s in heaven and that song sounds like heaven,” whispered Charlie to his teacher. “I miss my mom so much and she’d be so proud of me singing.” And after seeing the brass and woodwinds instruments the prior week, Charlie, along with his father, learned how to make his own woodwind instrument that he showed to his class
Nobody sets the stage for Broadway like Bob Lappin & The Palm Beach Pops in their renowned tribute to Andrew Lloyd Webber, March 2-8, 2010. This concert series features Broadway stars soprano Tamra Hayden of Les Misérables and tenor David Burnham, Helen Hayes Award winner for Best Actor and star of Wicked. Audiences will delight in breathtaking selections from famed Broadway shows Cats, Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables and other classics from the Great American Songbook!
