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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. Robert Newman founded The Proms in 1895 ...
Wallace & Gromit's Musical Marvels (also known as Wallace & Gromit at the Proms) is the name of Prom 20 of the 2012 season of The BBC Proms. It features orchestral renditions of music featured in the Wallace & Gromit series of films. Ben Whitehead reprises his role as Wallace. [1]
Chappell Roan wins BBC Radio 1's Sound of 2025. [7] The Elton John compilation album Diamonds reaches number one in the UK Albums chart after 374 weeks. [8] Le Pub, a music venue in Newport which was threatened with closure, has been bought by a community enterprise, Music Venue Properties (MVP), which aims to protect live music locations. [9]
Televised as "Horrible Histories' Big Prom Party", it took the form of a free family concert showcasing original songs from the Horrible Histories TV series, along with classical music. 22 July 2023 In the 30th-anniversary year of the Horrible Histories books by Terry Deary , a Prom looked at the world of opera. [ 1 ]
Night of the Proms is the biggest annually organised indoor event in Europe. Night of the Proms is based on the Last Night of the Proms, the last concert of the BBC Proms, a series of seventy or so classical concerts held yearly in the Royal Albert Hall in London, but it is organised independently. [3]
Soft Machine performing live in 2018. Soft Machine are an English jazz-rock band from Canterbury. Formed in mid-1966, the group originally consisted of drummer and vocalist Robert Wyatt, guitarists Daevid Allen and Larry Nowlin, bassist and vocalist Kevin Ayers, and keyboardist Mike Ratledge. The current lineup of the band features guitarist John Etheridge (1975–1978, 1984 and since 2015 ...
The Fantasia on British Sea Songs was first performed by Henry Wood and the Queen's Hall Orchestra at a Promenade Concert on 21 October 1905. [1] [2] It comprises nine parts which follow the course of the Battle of Trafalgar from the point of view of a British sailor, starting with the call to arms, progressing through the death of a comrade, thoughts of home, and ending with a victorious ...
The John Wilson Orchestra has been acclaimed for showing how "authentic period performance" extends to screen musicals. [2]In an interview with Rebecca Franks for the BBC Music Magazine prior to the 2010 Proms season, John Wilson explained how the specific make-up of the orchestra reflects this purpose: