The Score | Boston Pops’ Virtual “Thanks, Mom”

The Boston Pops launched its first-ever all-virtual season on May 6 with a program celebrating music by and about women, led by Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart. “The Boston Pops Celebrates Mother’s Day: Honoring Women” included Joan Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 3, music from My Fair Lady, and music by Rachel Bruerville, Maurice Ravel, and William Grant Still. Also on the program were orchestral arrangements of music by Carole King and ABBA, the first movement of Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto with soloist Tanya Gabrielian, and the final movement from J.S. Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins, played by Boston Pops violinist Ala Jojatu and her daughter, Maria Jojatu. The Quincy, Massachusetts-based band the Dropkick Murphys performed the song “To Our Darlin’ Mothers.” The concert joined other newly recorded Boston Pops performances at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s BSO NOW web portal in May and June: “A Tribute to John Williams,” “An Evening with Chris Thile and the Stars of Tomorrow,” and “The Roots of Jazz: American Voices.”