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Cleveland Pops Orchestra’s 10th
Year Anniversary CD review
February 13, 2005
Cleveland Pops Orchestra
Live at the Pops
Carl Topilow and his Cleveland Pops Orchestra have
been charming audiences for al most a decade, as this self-produced
collection of live performances snazzily confirms. Show and movie
music, jazz, swing and a host of other styles receive energetic and
suave treatment. Topilow does double duty by conducting and playing
clarinet (usually a red one, as Pops audiences know). My favorites
here are the "Flower Drum Song" medley, "Roumanian Horra and Bulgar"
(with violinist Steven Greenman and clarinetist Topilow), and Paul
Ferguson's witty arrangements of music from "The Drew Carey Show," but
you'll enjoy it all.
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