George Takei Joins Boston Pops Season, to Narrate 'Music of the Cosmos'

The Boston Pops and conductor Keith Lockhart announce a new addition to the 2025 Season: "Star Trek's" George Takei to narrate "Music of the Cosmos," a multimedia program exploring the intersection of music, science, and science fiction.

Presented in partnership with the Museum of Science and its Center for Space Science, the program is part of the year-long celebration of Keith Lockhart's 30th anniversary season as Boston Pops conductor.

Tickets are currently on sale at 888-266-1200 or at this link.

As part of the celebration, there are a distinguished lineup of guest artists that include Cynthia Erivo, Cody Fry, Orville Peck, Michael Feinstein, Mandy Gonzalez, Brian Stokes Mitchell, among others at Boston's Symphony Hall. 

As narrator of the "Music of the Cosmos" program on May 23 and 24, Takei will be making his Boston Pops debut, guiding the audience through this multimedia program exploring the intersection of music, science, and science fiction through imagery and thematic repertoire, which has been developed in partnership with the Museum of Science, Boston and its Center for Space Sciences. Through a compelling and elegant narration, Takei will contextualize and illuminate the ways in which science, science-fiction, and music have inspired and informed one another both in the concert hall and in film and television.  

"I am thrilled George can join us for these performances. He is nothing less than an icon, whether through his work as an actor, an activist, an author, or as a personality in our collective cultural consciousness. His collaboration can only increase the impact and uniqueness of this exciting, newly created program," said Lockhart.

For more information on the Boston Pops 2025 season, please click here for the original season announcement. 

Best known for his portrayal of Mr. Sulu in the acclaimed television and film series "Star Trek," Takei has been in more than 40 feature films and hundreds of television guest-starring roles over an acting career that has spanned eight decades. A social justice activist, social media mega-power, and New York Times bestselling author, Takei originated the role of Sam Kimura and Ojii-Chan in the 2015-16 Broadway musical "Allegiance," based on his childhood experiences living behind the barbed-wire enclosures of U.S. internment camps during World War II along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans. He was also the subject of "To Be Takei," a documentary on his life and career that showed last year at the Museum of Science's Mugar Omni Theater, among other venues. 

Takei is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Actors' Equity Association, and Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. As a community activist, he serves as chair of the council of governors of East West Players, the nation's foremost Asian Pacific American theater. Takei is also a member of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender political organization. 

Tickets for the Boston Pops' spring season at Symphony Hall are currently available or at this link. All performances start at 7:30 p.m., except for the 2:30 p.m. matinee performances of Disney's "Frozen in Concert" (May 24 & 31).  

Pops concerts offer cabaret-style seating on the orchestra floor level with food and beverage service at the tables. Balcony seating is also available. Click here to view a Pops-style seating chart.   

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