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The Proms, more formally known as The BBC Proms, or The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts presented by the BBC, is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in London.
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Founded in 1895, each season currently consists of more than 70 concerts in the Albert Hall, a series of chamber concerts at Cadogan Hall, additional Proms in the Park events across the United Kingdom on the last night, and associated educational and children's events.
The following year, the Proms moved to their current home, the Royal Albert Hall, and the BBC took over once more.
The Proms continue today, and still present newly commissioned music alongside pieces more central to the repertoire and early music.
Innovations continue, with pre-Prom talks, lunchtime chamber concerts, children's Proms, Proms in the Park either appearing, or being featured more heavily over the past few years.
It was envisaged as a home for less mainstream and more ambitious programming, and while this tendency has continued to date, most special-interest programmes of a kind previously broadcast on BBC Two, for example the BBC Proms, now tend to appear on BBC Four instead.
Newman was careful to balance " the Proms ", as they became known, with more prestigious and expensive concerts throughout the rest of the year.
Proms and formally
Newman's determination to make the promenade concerts attractive to everyone led him to permit smoking during concerts, which was not formally prohibited at the Proms until 1971.
Proms and known
From the outset the orchestra has been known for pioneering avant garde music, and it continues to do so, at the Proms, in concerts at the Barbican Centre, and in studio concerts from its base at BBC Maida Vale studios.
In 1927 the BBC took over the responsibility for the Promenade Concerts, widely known as " the Proms ".
While now known as the BBC Proms, the text on the tickets ( along with the headline " BBC Proms " next to the BBC logo ), still says " BBC Music presents the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts ".
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall situated on the northern edge of the South Kensington area, in the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941.
The BBC Promenade Concerts, known as " The Proms " is a popular annual eight-week summer season of daily classical music concerts and other events at the Hall.
Proms are commonly known as “ JS Prom ”, or, junior – senior prom.
Proms and BBC
In celebration of his 80th birthday, the Henry Miller's Theatre was renamed the Stephen Sondheim Theatre on September 15, 2010, and the The BBC Proms staged a concert in his honor.
On July 31, 2010, a BBC Proms concert was held to celebrate Sondheim's 80th Birthday at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
* 2010: Judi Dench Sang the song on BBC Proms for Stephen Sondheim's 80th birthday celebrations.
In August 2012, they presented an edition of The BBC Proms, Wallace & Gromit's Musical Marvels, as Prom 20 of the 2012 season.
On 20 October 2009 Williams opened the BBC Electric Proms at the London RoundHouse.
57 ( 1956 )" BBC Proms programme, Prom 76: Last Night of the Proms ( Saturday 12 September ).
A few examples are the Montreal International Jazz Festival, Canada, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Louisiana, the BBC Proms in Royal Albert Hall, London, the Verbier Festival in the mountain resort of Verbier, Switzerland, and the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto in the Japanese Alps near Matsumoto.
The BBC Proms that year devoted an entire evening to Rodgers ' music including a concert performance of Oklahoma!
" Land of Hope and Glory " has long been sung amidst much flag-waving at the climax of the Last Night of the BBC Proms.
* Leonard Slatkin introduced Elgar's Enigma Variations from BBC Proms 1995
* Complete variation performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin in 1995 BBC Proms.
Some seventy recordings of the choir are still in the catalogue and as well as appearing a number of times at the BBC Proms, the choir make numerous concert tours.
Commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, its European premiere at the 1984 Proms was relayed on BBC television.
She made her first appearance at the BBC Proms in 1990, and has appeared regularly since.
The orchestra performs regularly in the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall and has played in other great halls of the world, such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musikverein Vienna, and the Rudolfinum in Prague.
The corporation withdrew from responsibility for the Proms, with which Wood went ahead, backed by the Royal Philharmonic Society, with the LSO replacing the BBC SO.
The BBC resumed its support for the Proms in 1942, with the BBC SO returning temporarily to London during the Proms seasons of 1942 – 45.
" In addition to working under a conductor it disliked, the BBC SO found its role as a pioneer of progressive music gone, and its performances of the standard classics criticised as under-rehearsed ( particularly during Proms seasons ) compared with those given by Legge's Philharmonia and others.
Under Schwarz, BBC SO concerts other than the Proms drew poor houses – as low as 29 per cent of capacity in the 1959 – 60 season.
Proms and Henry
He performed the suite version of Henry V at the 2002 Last Night of the Proms.
The Proms continued though, under private sponsorship, until the Queen's Hall was gutted by an air raid in 1941 ( its site is now the St George's Hotel and BBC Henry Wood House ).
The tradition of the Last Night speech dates from 1941, when Sir Henry Wood gave the first such speech at the close of that Proms season, the first at the Royal Albert Hall, where he thanked colleagues and sponsors.
Indeed, the British premiere of the entire Fifth Symphony came thirty-six years after the Adagietto alone had been introduced ; that performance of the Adagietto was conducted by Henry Wood at a Proms concert in 1909.
** Of Adagietto only: August 31, 1909, London-conducted by Henry Wood during a Proms concert.
* 1903 – 21 October, English premiere: London as part of a Proms concert, conducted by Henry Wood.
A medley of sea songs performed by concert orchestra, Sir Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs, is a popular component of the Last Night of the Proms in Britain.
The orchestra, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, performed the complete Beethoven symphonic cycle at The Proms in July 2012-the first time all nine symphonies were performed under a single conductor in a single Prom season since Henry Wood did so in 1942.
From 1895 until 1941, it was the home of the promenade concerts (" The Proms ") founded by Robert Newman together with Henry Wood.
As a musical festival, it also attracted prestigious musical directors including Henry Wood, the founder of The Proms, Norman Del Mar and Vernon Handley.
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