When soprano Lisa Vroman was attending the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, one of her teachers was Anthony Maiello, who is now on the faculty of George Mason University School of Music. Over the years, they have crossed paths and worked together several times, most recently two years ago in the concert that opened GMU’s Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas. Now they meet onstage again in “Broadway Lights,” a program of showstopping numbers backed by Maiello’s American Festival Pops Orchestra.

“I took a percussion course from Anthony, one of the courses required for my degree, and we’ve been friends ever since,” Vroman said. “He’s the best, a great musician who also has been close to my stepfather and other friends and faculty who were at Potsdam the same time we were there. When I sang with his AFPO for the first time, I was blown away by the 60 professional musicians he lined up, many of them from the service bands. They’re outstanding.”