‘Hope for a Path Forward’: Philly Pops May Not Be Over After All

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The Philly Pops played the Harry Potter theme music at the announcement of Harry Potter: The Exhibition on Nov. 3, 2021.
Kimberly Paynter

It may not be curtains for the Philly POPS, yet. The orchestra had announced in November that it could not stay financially solvent and would shut down at the end of this season. But WHYY's Peter Crimmins reports the POPS has now decided to try keep it going.

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(Original air-date: 1/10/23)

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WHYY’s arts and culture reporter Peter Crimmins first became interested in radio in the fourth grade, when he smuggled a contraband crystal-diode radio into the Boy Scout summer camp. Subsequent radio projects were more successful.