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Who should I ask to prom? I’ve never been to prom and I want to go, bad. I want it to be perfect so I’ve put it off year after year. How can it be perfect if I ask just any ol’ girl? I also have to find the perfect restaurant and the perfect hotel room. That’s right, hotel room.
There’s just one other little thing that’s keeping me from prom. I’ll need to book a flight to London.
The BBC Proms were started as a concert series in 1895 by Robert Newman and Henry Wood at Queens Hall in London. The original title of the concert series was Mr. Robert Newman's Promenade Concerts.
The BBC took over the series in 1927 and the BBC Orchestra was formed in 1930. During World War II Queen’s Hall was destroyed in The Blitz and The Proms moved to Royal Albert Hall in 1941. Royal Albert Hall remains the home of The Proms.
What exactly are The Proms? They are the greatest musical festival in the world. The run for 70 days during the summer and feature the great musicians of the world.
Here’s a sample of what a week at The Proms is like. If you attended for the week starting on Monday July 16th you would get to hear a concert of French songs, Respighi’s Roman Festivals, Ravel’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra and Four Last Songs, Sibelius Symphony No. 7, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2, Prokofiev Symphony No. 6, Handel’s Water Music, Royal Fireworks, and Judas Maccabeus, Beethoven Symphonies No. 1, 2, 3, and 4, Bach’s Art of the Fugue, and Berlioz’s five-hour-long opera Les Troyens.
By the way, that list is just the highlights of the week and doesn’t include all the pieces being performed.
It’s a nice list but who are the performers? How about super-star conductors Daniel Barenboim and Sir Antonio Pappano?
With the Olympics falling smack in the middle of The Proms, perhaps this isn’t the year for me. Maybe next year…
Finale of Mahler 8 from 2002 Proms as performed by Sir Simon Rattle and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WhNn6zxqVg&feature=related
Who should I ask to prom? I’ve never been to prom and I want to go, bad. I want it to be perfect so I’ve put it off year after year. How can it be perfect if I ask just any ol’ girl? I also have to find the perfect restaurant and the perfect hotel room. That’s right, hotel room.
There’s just one other little thing that’s keeping me from prom. I’ll need to book a flight to London.
The BBC Proms were started as a concert series in 1895 by Robert Newman and Henry Wood at Queens Hall in London. The original title of the concert series was Mr. Robert Newman's Promenade Concerts.
The BBC took over the series in 1927 and the BBC Orchestra was formed in 1930. During World War II Queen’s Hall was destroyed in The Blitz and The Proms moved to Royal Albert Hall in 1941. Royal Albert Hall remains the home of The Proms.
What exactly are The Proms? They are the greatest musical festival in the world. The run for 70 days during the summer and feature the great musicians of the world.
Here’s a sample of what a week at The Proms is like. If you attended for the week starting on Monday July 16th you would get to hear a concert of French songs, Respighi’s Roman Festivals, Ravel’s Piano Concerto No. 2, Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra and Four Last Songs, Sibelius Symphony No. 7, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2, Prokofiev Symphony No. 6, Handel’s Water Music, Royal Fireworks, and Judas Maccabeus, Beethoven Symphonies No. 1, 2, 3, and 4, Bach’s Art of the Fugue, and Berlioz’s five-hour-long opera Les Troyens.
By the way, that list is just the highlights of the week and doesn’t include all the pieces being performed.
It’s a nice list but who are the performers? How about super-star conductors Daniel Barenboim and Sir Antonio Pappano?
With the Olympics falling smack in the middle of The Proms, perhaps this isn’t the year for me. Maybe next year…
Finale of Mahler 8 from 2002 Proms as performed by Sir Simon Rattle and the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WhNn6zxqVg&feature=related