Arthur Fiedler Papa the Pops and Me Author:Johanna Fiedler Arthur Fiedler's daughter writes a personal memoir of her father, world-famous musician and conductor of the Boston Pops who died in 1979. The story chronicles her family life in detail, describing what it was like to grow up in an unhappy family as the daughter of this curmudgeonly, complex, and sometimes cruel man, as well as deftly render... more »ing the typically East Coast social milieu of metropolitan Boston during the 1950s and 60s.« less