Our charts are actually challenging for Pops charts, and orchestras love that. We've learned how to work with the symphonies, how to keep our level on stage down so we don't blast them out. We're not interested in drowning them out. We know ahead of time we're not the biggest thing in their lives. They get to play Mahler, they get to play Mozart, they get to play great stuff.
Pops is part of what they do.
Luckily our charts are good enough that they have fun with them. It's a perfect place for us to do what we want to do. And things are only getting better in the culturally quiet community the band moved back to in 1976. Traditionally the town has been retirees, military, transient. Because of the industries that are coming in, you're getting a lot of people from California, a lot of people from around the country who are used to paying for culture and paying for education.