Conductor Steven Reineke has been named music director of The New York Pops.
Reineke will take over on Oct. 1, 2009. It's the nation's largest independent pops orchestra specializing in popular music.
He succeeds New York Pops founder and former NBC music director Skitch Henderson, who died in 2005.
The native of Tipp City, Ohio, conducted the New York Pops' 25th birthday gala at Carnegie Hall earlier this year, and will lead the orchestra in the annual telecast of the 2009 Macy's July 4 fireworks on NBC.
The New York Pops was founded in 1983 to create greater public appreciation of America's rich musical heritage. It performs an annual subscription series at Carnegie Hall.
Reineke is an established symphonic composer and associate conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.
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