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Current BBC Proms logo, used from the 2022 Proms season Outside the Royal Albert Hall during the BBC Proms season of 2008. The BBC Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London.
Limelight is a classical club night that is held at the 100 Club, in Soho, London.The event aims to broaden the appeal of classical music by presenting artists in an intimate, "rock & roll" environment, undermining conventional notions that classical music needs to be heard in a formal concert hall to be enjoyed.
The BBC Sir Henry Wood 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. In 1941, following the destruction of the Queen's Hall in an air raid, the Hall was chosen as the new venue for the Proms. [65]
The Royal Albert Hall in London. A major venue for classical and other forms of music. Classical music of the United Kingdom is taken in this article to mean classical music in the sense elsewhere defined, of formally composed and written music of chamber, concert and church type as distinct from popular, traditional, or folk music.
By 2010, the site listed 7,000 events and was being described favourably by both local London and national UK press. [4] [3] Bachtrack ' s first mobile app was launched in late 2009. [5] [6] In July 2010, Bachtrack was named as no. 5 in Classical Music magazine's top ten Web Winners. [7]
The London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London.Founded in 1904, the LSO is the oldest of London's symphony orchestras.The LSO was created by a group of players who left Henry Wood's Queen's Hall Orchestra because of a new rule requiring players to give the orchestra their exclusive services.
The Royal Festival Hall, London, the main base of the orchestra. The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) is a British orchestra based in London.One of five permanent symphony orchestras in London, the LPO was founded by the conductors Sir Thomas Beecham and Malcolm Sargent in 1932 as a rival to the existing London Symphony and BBC Symphony Orchestras.
Concerts are now primarily held at St John's, Smith Square, a classical music venue originally built as a church in the Baroque period. Concerts also take place at Westminster Abbey . Other venues in the Westminster area have included St Margaret's Church , St Peter's Eaton Square, and Westminster School .