What do Daniel Barenboim, Doctor Who, Dvorak and Disco, Beethoven’s Choral Symphony, Benjamin Britten, Bruckner, Brahms and Burt Bacharach, Kirill Petrenko, The King’s Singers and the Kanneh-Masons, Sir Simon Rattle, Symphonie Fantastique, Sakari Oramo, Sarah Vaughan, Sam Smith and Smetana, Henry Mancini, Handel and Holst, Charles Villiers Stanford, CBeebies, Carmen and Clara Schumann, Antonio Pappano, Anne-Sophie Mutter, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Angel Blue, the Paraorchestra, the "Pathetique" (Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 6), Purcell and Puccini, as well as Mendelssohn, Marisha Wallace, the BBC Singers, VOCES8, Fauré, Nick Drake, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Laura Mvula, Yo-Yo Ma, Stevie Wonder, Wynton Marsalis, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, Verdi's Requiem, Florence and the Machine, Jules Buckley - and Rule, Britannia! - have in common?
Yes, of course - the mightiest musical "festival" on Earth, the BBC Proms Season has been announced, and every one of 'em is in the mix of delights on offer...
Read a basic guide to The Proms, its history and other associated bits'n'pieces, courtesy of Country and Town House magazine.
The comprehensive guide to the entire season on the BBC.
The Proms Season opens on 19th July, and the Last Night of the Proms is on 14th September 2024. Enjoy!
We don't get much coverage of the Proms here in the US, but I always love the big finale of Hope and Glory.
ReplyDeleteIt's rather shameful, really, that the USA broadcasters have so little time for such culture. Jx
DeleteDoes PBS do much classical music?? I think there are some classical radio stations in America but they're a bit splintered
DeleteBugger only knows, tbh. Jx
DeleteProms 33; 13th Aug - Titans of British Music; sounds good
ReplyDeleteElgar, Holst, Stanford and Ralph Vaughan Williams's London Symphony.
But I think we will be in Amsterdam
That's a Tuesday. We fly to the 'Dam on Thursday, so it is possible. Jx
DeleteI'll be dropping into the bookshop for my copy of the prospectus and a hefty weekend's reading. I do find a lot of the concerts I like are on telly anyway (as well as all of them being on radio and online - though not quite so engaging). But the atmosphere in the hall is always great. How does it manage to be so grand and yet intimate at the same time?
ReplyDeleteEvery concert in the series will be broadcast by the BBC on either radio or telly (or both), so there will be an opportunity to enjoy it all in some way! I agree - having been to the Royal Albert Hall a few times, it never feels daunting, like, say the Theatre Royal Drury Lane or The London Palladium can. Jx
DeleteThat must be incredible, and I can’t believe I’ve never heard of the Proms before. It HAS been going on for a while.
ReplyDeleteOnly 130 years (next year)... It seems the Atlantic is wider than we thought, if it has gone unnoticed to Americans in all that time! Jx
DeleteAhhh!The Proms. Even 40 years ago you struggled to get a front row spot (thanks, mainly, to the toffs who had the money to buy up most of the front rows), but I did manage to get to Last Night once. And, of course, the Beeb was most obliging. "There'll always be an Eng-laaand and England shall be free..."
ReplyDeleteWe've been to a few Proms over the years - not as many as we possibly could, or should have done, as we've missed some great stuff. Never managed to do a "Last Night" in the Hall either, but its linked "Proms in the Park" in Hyde Park was a highlight of our social calendar - until they cancelled it... Nowadays we watch it on the Beeb, and wave flags, and sing along, in our own living-room. Jx
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