It was commissioned by the Eire Society of Boston for a Boston Pops concert on June 6, 1947 conducted by Arthur Fiedler. The Irish Suite was originally called "Erie Suite" and had only four ...
In 1881, Henry Lee Higginson, the founder of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, wrote of his wish to present in Boston "concerts of a lighter kind of music." The first Boston Pops concert in 1885 ...