Alsop is principal conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, which plays tomorrow night at the BBC Proms. |
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It is tempting to view the Last Night of the Proms as William Blake's idea of heaven. |
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Glasgow's Proms in the Park will be broadcast live, in its entirety on BBC Radio Scotland. |
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Lydiard Park will fill with people and their picnics relaxing to the sounds of the Proms and the sights of the firework spectacular. |
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The Last Night of the Proms tomorrow has dropped some of the rousing anthems associated with it, including Rule, Britannia! |
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Tonight, people and their picnics will pack out the park to relax to the sounds of the Proms and the sights of the firework spectacular. |
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Compare the beginnings of the two symphonies that I will be conducting at this year's Proms. |
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Catherine Wyn-Rogers, one of Britain's most acclaimed mezzo-sopranos and much loved by Proms audiences, sings Sir Edward Elgar's ravishing Sea Pictures. |
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The Proms continue today, and still present newly commissioned music alongside pieces more central to the repertoire and early music. |
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In 1996, a related series of eight lunchtime chamber concerts was started, taking place on Mondays during the Proms season. |
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These allow the Proms to include music which is not suitable for the vast spaces of the Albert Hall. |
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In May 2015, the BBC announced the appointment of David Pickard as the next Director of The Proms. |
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Many people's perception of the Proms is taken from the Last Night, although this concert is very different from the others. |
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During his tenure as conductor of the Proms, Sir Malcolm Sargent established the tone of making the Last Night speeches more humorous in nature. |
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The following table lists by year the conductors of the Last Night of the Proms. |
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This work follows the summer Proms season during which temperatures were particularly high. |
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Other tours include Story of the Proms, Behind the Scenes, Inside Out and School tours. |
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When the BBC evacuated its orchestra from London and abandoned the Proms, the LSO took over for Wood. |
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The Proms, a season of orchestral classical music concerts held at the Royal Albert Hall, is a major cultural event held annually. |
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The BBC SO is also the principal orchestra at The Proms, performing the most concerts of any single orchestra in a given Proms season. |
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Sargent's contract was not renewed in 1957, although he continued as chief conductor of the Proms until his death ten years later. |
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The orchestra remains the principal orchestra of the Proms, giving about a dozen concerts each season, including the first and last nights. |
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During his chief conductorship, prestigious foreign conductors and orchestras began to perform regularly at the Proms. |
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In October 2008, Robin performed a couple of songs in London as part of the BBC Electric Proms Saturday Night Fever performance. |
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On 20 October 2009 Williams opened the BBC Electric Proms at the London RoundHouse. |
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For some years the performance at the Last Night of the Proms reverted to Sir Henry Wood's original arrangement. |
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A Doctor Who Prom was celebrated on 27 July 2008 in the Royal Albert Hall as part of the annual BBC Proms. |
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On Saturday 12 September 2009 she performed in Hyde Park for Proms in the Park. |
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It's the home of the Proms and broadcasts more live music than any other network. |
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The station broadcasts the BBC Proms concerts, live and in full, each summer in addition to performances by the BBC Orchestras and Singers. |
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When Bryn Terfel performed it at the Proms in 1994 and 2008 he sang the third verse in Welsh. |
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This version has been programmed several times at the Last Night of the Proms. |
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In 1943 Vaughan Williams conducted the premiere of his Fifth Symphony at the Proms. |
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In fact this tradition has been revived in parks and stately homes around the UK at promenade concerts such as the Battle Proms. |
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The annual series of Proms continuing today had their roots in that movement. |
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Although Newman remained involved in artistic planning, it was Wood's name which became most closely associated with the Proms. |
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Sir Henry Wood continued his work with the Proms through vicissitudes with the BBC until his death in 1944, the year of his Jubilee Season. |
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Since that time, almost every major international orchestra, conductor and soloist has performed at the Proms. |
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Walpole was a keen music lover and when in 1920 he heard a new tenor at the Proms he was much impressed and sought him out. |
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In 1987 the positions of Controller of Music and Controller of Radio 3 were merged, and with it the operation of the Proms, under the former Music Controller John Drummond. |
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This strategy was also introduced to some of the BBC Proms concerts. |
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The introduction of family orientated concerts to the BBC Proms, which is broadcast live on Radio 3, helped the station to introduce itself to a younger audience. |
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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. |
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Musicians from the sinfonia ViVA orchestra and a storyteller will be entertaining shoppers at the John Lewis store in the Touchwood shopping centre with their Beanbag Proms. |
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On 31 July, again at the Proms, he performed in a concert from the Royal Albert Hall celebrating the works of Stephen Sondheim, in his 80th birthday year. |
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I heard Gergiev conduct a superb performance of the 5th symphony at the Proms in 2009 and there is no doubt that he is fully inside the Mahlerian idiom. |
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It is also possible to hear the concerts live from the BBC Proms website. |
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Sargent was chief conductor of the Proms from 1948 until his death in 1967 and of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1950 to 1957, succeeding Sir Adrian Boult. |
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The 2011 Proms also featured the first ever 'Comedy Prom' hosted by comedian and pianist Tim Minchin, as well as the debut of the Spaghetti Western Orchestra. |
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The booking system was also revised with a new online system to allow ticket buyers to set up a personalised Proms plan in advance to speed up the booking process. |
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The season saw the launch of a venture called the Proms Family Orchestra in which children and their extended families can make music with BBC musicians. |
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It is familiar to millions of television viewers all over the world every year who watch the Last Night of the Proms, where it is traditionally performed. |
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From the launch until 1987, the controllers of Radio 3 showed preferences towards speech and arts programming as opposed to focus on classical music and the Proms. |
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