Sarky Mouradian, an Armenian writer-director who also hosted a U.S. TV series in which he interviewed celebrity countrymen, has died. He was 90.
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BOSTON -- David Mugar, the businessman and philanthropist who transformed the Boston Pops July Fourth concert and fireworks show from a small local event into a nationally televised extravaganza, has died according to his family.He died Tuesday night, his three children said in a statement. He was 82.
No cause of death was provided.“He was a Bostonian through and through, continually finding ways to give back to the community he loved," the family said. “He was humble and generous.
Quietly doing good for others and always leading with his heart. The many gifts he gave to civic and cultural organizations across the city and the state were most often given in recognition and honor of his parents, our grandparents."Although Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler had organized the city's free July Fourth concert since 1929, its popularity and crowds had dwindled by the mid-1970s.Mugar, inspired to produce large-scale events by actor Charlton Heston's character in the 1952 Academy Award-winning movie “The Greatest Show on Earth,” suggested to his longtime friend Fiedler that the show add cannon fire, church bells, fireworks over the Charles River, and a rendition of Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture.”The music choice was controversial at first, as some thought it inappropriate to play a piece by a Russian composer at the height of the Cold War, but the show's popularity soared and today it draws about 500,000 people, many of whom line up for hours, blankets at the ready, to get a prime space on the lawn.
Sarky Mouradian, an Armenian writer-director who also hosted a U.S. TV series in which he interviewed celebrity countrymen, has died. He was 90.
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