Their programs are based around two genres, easy listening and country music, though the programs vary, including jazz, big band and light classics.

He programmed his shows regularly with boogie-woogie pieces, and his arrangements often quoted popular light classics.

We'll sing medleys from musical comedies and the lighter classics, and you don't even have to read music.

It is used, mostly in summer, to describe large orchestral performances that mix light classics with popular music of substance.

"Actually, light classics that we can read to the Victims: even Westerns or a good mystery story."

Over the next 25 years he composed some 50 more light classics, which virtually defined the sound of the American pops orchestra.

The initial aim was to perform "the finest of the lighter classics in orchestral music".

The distinction between classical and popular music has sometimes been blurred in marginal areas such as minimalist music and light classics.

Performances include programs of light classics, popular melodies, patriotic songs, and marches.

Programs include light classics, operetta, ballads, musical comedy and other genres.