"classical Monday Pops"

The Monday Pops were "popular concerts of classical music" held on Mondays by Chappell and Company "in St. James Hall, opened in 1858 on part of the site of what is now the Piccadilly Hotel" (Ayre 244; Green 435 n. 81).

This discussion is based on the definition of the word pops in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which requires a little explanation.

To Act I or Act II of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado.

To the homepage of this Mikado website.

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(c) Copyright 1998 Sharon Cogdill, dramaturg for this production and author of this website.

College of Fine Arts and Humanities

St. Cloud State University

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Last update: 16 May 1998.