When the music of classical composers Beethoven, Bach and Mozart was gaining popularity 250 years ago, it’s likely that listeners had no reason to believe it would have the impact it did or that it would still be revered these so many years later.
Similarly, when R&B vocal groups were helping propel the popularity of Motown Records more than 60 years ago, audiences likely didn’t think about the impact it would have or that it still would be around already one quarter as many years as those classical composers’ music.
On Aug. 2, Wednesday, on the opening night of the Service Electric Grandstand Stage at The Great Allentown Fair, the two musical genres combined in a concert by The Four Tops, one of the most commercially successful pop music groups of the 1960s, and the Allentown Symphony Orchestra…