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BBC Proms

January 03, 2023

This article is about the British concerts. For other uses, see Prom (disambiguation).

The BBC Proms or Proms, formally named the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts Presented by the BBC,[1][2] 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. The Proms were founded in 1895, and are now organised and broadcast by the BBC. Each season consists of concerts in the Royal Albert Hall, chamber music concerts at Cadogan Hall, additional Proms in the Park events across the UK on the Last Night of the Proms, and associated educational and children's events. The season is a significant event in British culture and in classical music. Czech conductor Jiří Bělohlávek described the Proms as "the world's largest and most democratic musical festival".[3]

Current BBC Proms logo, used from 2022 Proms season
Outside the Royal Albert Hall during the BBC Proms season of 2008

Prom is short for promenade concert, a term which originally referred to outdoor concerts in London's pleasure gardens, where the audience was free to stroll around while the orchestra was playing. In the context of the BBC Proms, promming refers to the use of the standing areas inside the hall (the Arena and Gallery) for which ticket prices are much lower than for the seating. Proms concert-goers, particularly those who stand, are sometimes referred to as "Prommers" or "Promenaders".

History

 
A promenade concert in the Royal Albert Hall, 2004. The bust of Sir Henry Wood can be seen in front of the organ.

Origins and Sir Henry Wood

Promenade concerts had existed in London's pleasure gardens since the mid-18th century, and indoor proms became a feature of 19th century musical life in London from 1838, notably under the direction of Louis Antoine Jullien and Sir Arthur Sullivan.[4] The annual series of Proms continuing today had their roots in that movement. They were inaugurated on 10 August 1895 in the Queen's Hall in Langham Place by the impresario Robert Newman, who was fully experienced in running similar concerts at His Majesty's Theatre.[5] Newman wished to generate a wider audience for concert hall music by offering low ticket prices and an informal atmosphere, where eating, drinking and smoking were permitted to the promenaders. He stated his aim to Henry Wood in 1894[6] as follows:

I am going to run nightly concerts and train the public by easy stages. Popular at first, gradually raising the standard until I have created a public for classical and modern music.[7]

George Cathcart, an otolaryngologist, gave financial backing to Newman for the series (called "Mr Robert Newman's Promenade Concerts") on condition that Henry Wood be employed as the sole conductor.[8][9] Wood, aged 26, seized this opportunity and built the "Queen's Hall Orchestra" as the ensemble specially devoted to performing the promenade concerts.[10] Cathcart also stipulated (contrary to Newman's preference) the adoption of French or Open Diapason concert pitch, necessitating the acquisition of an entirely new set of wind instruments for the orchestra, and the re-tuning of the Queen's Hall organ. This coincided with the adoption of this lower pitch by other leading orchestras and concert series.[11] Although the concerts gained a popular following and reputation, Newman went bankrupt in 1902, and the banker Edgar Speyer took over the expense of funding them. Wood received a knighthood in 1911. In 1914 anti-German feeling led Speyer to surrender his role, and music publishers Chappell & Co. took control of the concerts.[12]

Although Newman remained involved in artistic planning, it was Wood's name which became most closely associated with the Proms.[13] As conductor from the first concert (which opened with Wagner's Rienzi overture) in 1895, Sir Henry was largely responsible for building the repertoire heard as the series continued from year to year. While including many popular and less demanding works, in the first season there were substantial nights devoted to Beethoven or Schubert, and a programme of new works was given in the final week. Distinguished singers including Sims Reeves and Signor Foli appeared. In the first two decades Wood firmly established the policy of introducing works by contemporary composers (both British and international) and of bringing fresh life to unperformed or under-performed works.[14] A bronze bust of Sir Henry Wood recovered from the ruins of the bombed-out Queen's Hall in 1941, and now belonging to the Royal Academy of Music,[15] is still placed in front of the organ for the whole Promenade season. Though the concerts are now called the BBC Proms, and are headlined with the BBC logo, the tickets are subtitled "BBC Music presents the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts".

 
Sir Henry Wood's Queen's Hall Orchestra, rehearsing for the first Promenade Concert of the 1927 Season, from the BBC Hand Book 1928

In 1927, following Newman's sudden death in the previous year, the BBC – later based at Broadcasting House next to the hall – took over the running of the concerts.[16] This arose because William Boosey, then managing director of Chappell & Co. (the Prom. proprietors), detested broadcasting and saw the BBC's far-reaching demands and intentions in the control of musical presentation as a danger to the future of public concerts altogether. He decided to disband the New Queen's Hall Orchestra, which played for the last time at a Symphony concert on 19 March 1927. He found it more expedient to let the Queen's Hall to the broadcasting powers, rather than to continue the Promenade concerts and other big series independently in an unequal competition with what was effectively the Government itself. So the Proms were saved, but under a different kind of authority. The personnel of the New Queen's Hall Orchestra effectively continued until 1930 as "Sir Henry J. Wood and his Symphony Orchestra".[17] When the BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO) was formed in 1930, it became the main orchestra for the concerts. At this time the season consisted of nights dedicated to particular composers; Mondays were Wagner, Fridays were Beethoven, with other major composers being featured on other days. There were no Sunday performances.

During World War II

With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the BBC withdrew its support. However private sponsors stepped in to maintain the Proms, always under Sir Henry Wood's direction, until the Queen's Hall was devastated beyond repair during an air raid in May 1941. (The site is now occupied by the St George's Hotel and BBC Henry Wood House). The concerts then moved (until 1944) to their current home, the Royal Albert Hall, during the Promenade season presented by Keith Douglas in conjunction with the Royal Philharmonic Society (of which he was Secretary).[18][19]

The London Symphony Orchestra had sometimes assisted in the series since (after 1927) the New Queen's Hall Orchestra had ceased to function, and in 1942 Sir Henry Wood also invited the London Philharmonic Orchestra under its new leader Jean Pougnet to participate in this and subsequent seasons.[20] In this he was attempting to maintain vigour in the programme, under the renewal of its relationship with the BBC as promoters. 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.[21] During that period Sir Adrian Boult, chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and Basil Cameron also took on conducting duties for the series,[22] continuing them in 1944 when, under increased danger from bombing, they were moved again, this time to the Bedford Corn Exchange (home of the BBC Symphony Orchestra since 1941) which hosted them until the end of the War.

Post-war

Sir Adrian Boult and Basil Cameron continued as conductors of the Promenade Concerts after the War, on their return to the Royal Albert Hall, until the advent of Malcolm Sargent as Proms chief conductor in 1947. Sargent held this post until 1966; his associate conductor from 1949 to 1959 was John Hollingsworth. Sargent was noted for his immaculate appearance (evening dress, carnation) and his witty addresses where he good-naturedly chided the noisy Prommers. Sir Malcolm championed choral music and classical and British composers, especially Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. The charity founded in his name, CLIC Sargent, continues to hold a special Promenade Concert each year shortly after the main season ends. CLIC Sargent, the Musicians' Benevolent Fund and further musical charities (chosen each year) also benefit from thousands of pounds in donations from Prommers after most concerts. When asking for donations, Prommers from the Arena regularly announce to the audience the running donations total at concert intervals through the season, or before the concert when there is no interval.

After Wood's death, Julian Herbage acted as de facto principal administrator of the Proms for a number of years, as a freelance employee after his retirement from the BBC, with assistance from such staff as Edward Clark and Kenneth Wright.[23] During the tenure of William Glock as Controller of the Proms, from 1960 to 1973, the Proms repertory expanded both forwards in time, to encompass then contemporary and avant-garde composers such as Boulez, Berio, Carter, Dallapiccola, Peter Maxwell Davies, Gerhard, Henze, Ligeti, Lutosławski, Lutyens, Maw, Messiaen, Nono, Stockhausen, and Tippett, as well as backwards to include music by past composers such as Purcell, Cavalli, Monteverdi, Byrd, Palestrina, Dufay, Dunstaple, and Machaut, as well as less-often performed works of Johann Sebastian Bach and Joseph Haydn.[24] From the 1960s, the number of guest orchestras at the Proms also began to increase, with the first major international conductors (Leopold Stokowski, Georg Solti, and Carlo Maria Giulini) performing in 1963, and the first foreign orchestra, the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, performing in 1966. Since that time, almost every major international orchestra, conductor and soloist has performed at the Proms. In 1970, Soft Machine's appearance led to press attention and comment as the first "pop" band to perform there.

The 1968 season began on a Friday night instead of the usual Saturday night. This concert marked a tribute to Sir Malcolm Sargent who had died shortly after delivering a brief speech from the rostrum at the Last Night in 1967. He had been too ill to actually conduct that concert. Every year since then, the Proms have always started on a Friday night in July.

Since 1990

The Proms continue today, and still present newly commissioned music alongside pieces more central to the repertoire and early music. Innovations continue, with pre-Prom talks, lunchtime chamber concerts, children's Proms, Proms in the Park either appearing, or being featured more heavily over the past few years. In the UK, all concerts are broadcast on BBC Radio 3, an increasing number are televised on BBC Four with some also shown on BBC One and BBC Two. The theme tune that used to be played at the beginning of each programme broadcast on television (until the 2011 season) was an extract from the end of the "Red" movement of Arthur Bliss's A Colour Symphony. It is also possible to hear the concerts live from the BBC Proms website. The Last Night is also broadcast in many countries around the world.

In 1996, a related series of eight lunchtime chamber concerts was started, taking place on Mondays during the Proms season. In their first year these were held in the Britten Hall of the Royal College of Music (just across Prince Consort Road from the Albert Hall). The following year they moved slightly further afield, to the Henry Cole Lecture Theatre at the Victoria and Albert Museum. In 2005, they moved further again, to the new Cadogan Hall, just off London's Sloane Square. These allow the Proms to include music which is not suitable for the vast spaces of the Albert Hall.

From 1998 to 2007, the Blue Peter Prom, in partnership with long-running BBC television programme Blue Peter, was an annual fixture.[25] Aimed at children and families, the Prom is informal, including audience participation, jokes, and popular classics.[26] High demand for tickets – which are among the lowest priced in the season – saw this Prom be split in 2004 into two Proms with identical content.[27] In 2008, the Blue Peter Prom was replaced with a Doctor Who Prom which was revived in both the 2010 and 2013 seasons.[28]

The 2004 season also featured the Hall's newly rebuilt pipe organ. It took two years to complete the task (2002–2004) and was the work of Noel Mander, Ltd., of London. It was the first complete restoration of the instrument since Harrison and Harrison's work in 1936.

The tradition of Promming remains an important aspect of the festival, with over 1000 standing places available for each concert, either in the central arena (rather like the groundlings in the pit at Shakespeare's Globe) or high in the hall's gallery. Promming tickets cost the same for all concerts (currently £6 as of 2018[29]), providing a considerably cheaper option for the more popular events. Since the tickets cannot be bought until 9am on the morning of the concert[30] (although there are full-season tickets, first weekend and weekly passes available), they provide a way of attending otherwise sold-out concerts.[31][32]

In 2010, the Proms Archive was introduced on the BBC Proms webpage, to allow for a systematic searching of all works that have been performed and all artists who have appeared at the Proms since their inception. On 1 September 2011, a Prom given by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra was severely affected by interruptions from pro-Palestinian protesters.[33] While the Palestine Solidarity Campaign had urged a boycott, they denied being behind the disruption inside the Royal Albert Hall. For the first time ever, the BBC took a Prom concert off the air.[34]

Successive Controllers of the Proms after Glock have been Robert Ponsonby (1973–1985), John Drummond (1986–1995), Nicholas Kenyon (1996–2007), and Roger Wright (2007–2014). Between 1986 and 2014, the post of Director, BBC Proms had mostly been combined with the role of Controller, BBC Radio 3.

Edward Blakeman, editor of BBC Radio 3, became interim Proms Director upon Wright's departure in July 2014.[35] In May 2015, the BBC announced the appointment of David Pickard as the next Director of BBC Proms.[36][37]

Proms seasons

 
The Proms 2005. Most people sit, while Promenaders stand in front of the orchestra. The Royal Albert Hall Organ is in the background.

2006

The 2006 season (the 112th) marked the 250th birthday celebrations of Mozart and the centenary of Shostakovich's birth. New initiatives included four Saturday matinee concerts at the Cadogan Hall and the chance for audience members to get involved with The Voice, a collaborative piece performed in two Proms on 29 July. On 3 September 2006, a concert was cancelled due to a fire.[38] 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.[39]

2007

The 2007 season ran from 13 July to 8 September. Early press coverage focused heavily on the fact that musical theatre star Michael Ball would be the central performer in a concert on 27 August and a concert of British film music on 14 July. This led to media accusations of "dumbing down", despite Kenyon's defence of the programme.[40][41][42] Anniversaries marked in this Proms season included:

  • The 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Edward Elgar
  • The 100th anniversary of the death of Edvard Grieg
  • The 50th anniversary of the death of Jean Sibelius
  • 80 years since the first BBC sponsorship of the Proms.

The series also included an additional series of four Saturday matinee concerts at Cadogan Hall. The 2007 season was Kenyon's last season as controller of the BBC Proms, before he became managing director at the Barbican Centre.[43] Roger Wright became Controller of the Proms in October 2007, whilst retaining responsibility for BBC Radio 3 and taking up a broader role controlling the BBC's classical music output across all media.[44]

2008

The 2008 season ran from 18 July to 13 September 2008. The BBC released details of the season slightly earlier than usual, on 9 April 2008.[45] Composers whose anniversaries were marked include:

The celebration of Stockhausen was centred on two large-scale concerts on 2 August 2008, and complementing Vaughan Williams's interest in folk music, the first Sunday was given over to a celebration of various aspects of British folk, including free events in Kensington Gardens and the Albert Hall, and ending with the first-ever Proms céilidh in the Albert Hall itself.[46]

Other changes included additional pre-Prom talks and events. For the first time, there was a related talk or event before every Prom, held in the Royal College of Music. The popular family-oriented Prom this year became the Doctor Who Prom, (in place of the Blue Peter Prom of recent years).[47] The Doctor Who Prom included a mini-episode of Doctor Who, "Music of the Spheres".

Just over a month before the announcement of the season, Margaret Hodge, a Minister of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport suggested "that the Proms was one of several big cultural events that many people did not feel comfortable attending" and advocated an increase in multicultural works and an effort to broaden the audience. Her comments received wide criticism in the musical world and media as being a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the Proms, with the then UK prime minister Gordon Brown even distancing himself from her remarks.[48]

2009

In the 2009 season, which ran from 17 July to 12 September 2009, the total number of concerts reached 100 for the first time. The principal anniversary composers included:

Other composer anniversaries noted in the 2009 Proms included:

The humorist and music impresario Gerard Hoffnung was also remembered with the performance in the Last Night of Malcolm Arnold's A Grand Grand Overture, which was commissioned for the first Hoffnung Music Festival.[39] The 2009 Proms featured Bollywood music for the first time, as part of a day-long series of concerts and events also covering Indian classical music. Performers in the day included Ram Narayan, Rajan and Sajan Mishra, and Shaan.[49] Noted historical anniversaries covered in the 2009 Proms included the 75th anniversary of the MGM film musical, and the 10th year of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.[50][51][52] There was a child-oriented Prom to mark the Darwin bicentenary as well as a Free Family Prom including the Proms Family Orchestra.[39] There was also a concert performance by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain which was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and received critical acclaim. This concert included a version of Beethoven's Ode to Joy in which at least 1000 audience members participated with Ukuleles.[53]

2010

 
BBC Proms logo, used until 2021 season.

The 2010 Proms season ran from 16 July to 11 September. The principal anniversary composers included:

Other anniversaries of composers featured at the Proms included:

In addition, Hubert Parry and Alexander Scriabin received particular focus.[54] One day was dedicated particularly to Sir Henry Wood, including a recreation of the 1910 Last Night.[55] For families, the Doctor Who Prom, first introduced in 2008, received new renditions hosted by the newest Doctor (Matt Smith) and his companions Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) and Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill).[56][57] 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.[58]

2011

The 2011 Proms season began on 15 July 2011 and ran until 10 September 2011. The principal anniversary composers included:

Other anniversaries of composers featured at the Proms included:

The music of Frank Bridge also received a particular non-anniversary-related focus. Other notable performances included the first Proms performance of Havergal Brian's Symphony No. 1 ('The Gothic'), which was also the 6th live performance ever,[59] and subsequently released on a Hyperion commercial recording.[60] The 2011 Proms season also featured new works by Sally Beamish, Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies, Pascal Dusapin, Graham Fitkin, Thomas Larcher, Kevin Volans, Judith Weir, and Stevie Wishart.

Prom 62, featuring the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra on 1 September 2011, was taken off air by the BBC following vocal anti-Israeli protests from some members of the audience. This was the first time that the BBC had taken a Proms concert off air mid-broadcast.[61][62]

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. No other 'Comedy Prom' has taken place to date.

The children's prom of 2011 was based on the CBBC television series Horrible Histories and featured a number of songs from the show.

2012

The 2012 Proms was the 118th season, began on 13 July 2012 and ran until 8 September 2012. Notable aspects of the season included the first Beethoven symphony cycle by a single orchestra at the Proms since 1942, with Daniel Barenboim conducting the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, and various works and concerts that highlighted the 2012 London Olympic Games. Composer anniversaries included:

The season also noted the 70th anniversary of the BBC programme Desert Island Discs.

2013

The 2013 season celebrated several composer anniversaries:

The season featured concert performances of seven of Wagner's thirteen operas, including Der Ring des Nibelungen performed over the course of one week by the Staatskapelle Berlin, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, the first time the complete Ring cycle had been performed at the Proms in a single season.[63] BBC Radio 3 also collaborated with BBC Radio 2 and Radio 6.

In 2013 Marin Alsop became the first female conductor of the Last Night of the Proms.[64]

2014

The 2014 season had a number of pieces in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, including the premier of the violin concerto "1914" by Gabriel Prokofiev and "Requiem Fragments" by John Tavener. Also performed were "War Elegy" by Ivor Gurney, and Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem".

There were special proms for younger children (The Cbeebies prom), a staging of Kiss Me, Kate, and a concert inspired by the World War I-era War Horse, featuring puppets from the play. The late night proms season included performances by the Pet Shop Boys and Paloma Faith.

Composers having special attention included Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (both celebrating their 80th birthdays in 2014), William Walton, and Richard Strauss.

 
A panorama of the 2015 season of the Proms, with the seats behind the orchestra half-and-half with choral members and audience.

2015

Themes for the 2015 season included works by Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius, in commemoration of the 150th anniversaries of each composer.

The Late Night Proms included collaborations with BBC Asian Network (Prom 8), Radio 1 (Prom 16, featuring dance music hits from the past 20 years), Radio 6 Music (Prom 27) and Radio 1Xtra (Prom 37, which featured grime artists Stormzy, Wretch 32, Little Simz and others).

2016

The 2016 Proms season featured a new series of 'Proms at...' concerts which included performances at venues in London besides the Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall, specifically:

These concerts were offered in place of the previous Saturday Matinee concerts at Cadogan Hall.

2016 marked David Pickard's first season as Director, BBC Proms. This marked the first time since the 1990s when the posts of Controller, BBC Radio 3 and Director, BBC Proms were not combined.

2017

The 2017 Proms season featured a number of composer anniversaries:

The season also continued the 'Proms at...' series, with the following concerts:

In addition, Xian Zhang became the first female conductor ever to conduct the annual Prom which includes the Symphony No. 9 of Beethoven, on 30 July 2017.[65] The 2017 Proms season featured 7 female conductors,[66] the greatest number of female conductors in a single Proms season to that point.

2018

The 2018 season ran from 13 July to 8 September and featured a number of composer anniversaries:

Women composers were also celebrated on the 100th anniversary of the extension of voting rights to some women in the UK. The 22 composers featured included Clara Schumann, Ethel Smyth, Amy Beach, Alma Mahler, Florence Price and Thea Musgrave.

Prom 3, on 15 July, marked the fortieth anniversary of the BBC Young Musician competition and featured performances from a number of the competition's previous and current winners and finalists.[67]

2019

The 2019 season ran from 19 July to 14 September.[68]

2020

The 2020 season marked 125 years since the first Proms season and was reimagined due to the COVID-19 pandemic, running from 19 July to 12 September. It featured "a unique format to reflect the times, with a compelling multi-platform offer".[69]

2021

The 2021 season ran from 30 July to 11 September. This year marked 150 years of the Royal Albert Hall.

Composers commissioned for the season were James MacMillan, Elizabeth Ogonek, Augusta Read Thomas, Britta Byström, Shiva Feshareki, Nico Muhly, George Lewis, George Benjamin, Grace-Evangeline Mason and Gity Razaz.[70]

2022

The 2022 season ran from 15 July to 8 September. This year marked the 100th anniversary of the BBC and for the first time, the festival used the new BBC logo as part of the wider corporate rebrand on 20 October 2021.[71][72]

Due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the 2022 season ended on 8 September as part of the BBC's policy of cancelling such shows for 12 days after the Queen died.

Last Night of the Proms

 
The Last Night of the Proms celebrates British tradition with patriotic music of the United Kingdom.[73][74]

Many people's perception of the Proms is based on the Last Night, although this is very different from the other concerts. It usually takes place on the second Saturday in September, and is broadcast in the UK on BBC Radio 3, and on television on BBC Two (first half) and BBC One (second half). The concert is traditionally in a lighter, 'winding-down' vein, with popular classics followed by a second half of British patriotic pieces. This sequence traditionally includes Edward Elgar's "Pomp & Circumstance March No. 1" (to part of which "Land of Hope and Glory" is sung) and Henry Wood's "Fantasia on British Sea Songs", followed by Thomas Arne's "Rule, Britannia!". The concert concludes with Hubert Parry's "Jerusalem", and the British national anthem, since 2010 in an arrangement by Benjamin Britten. The repeat of the Elgar march at the Last Night can be traced to the spontaneous audience demand for a double encore after its premiere at a 1901 Proms concert.[75] The closing sequence of the second half became fully established in 1954 during Sargent's tenure as chief conductor.[76] The Prommers have made a tradition of singing "Auld Lang Syne" after the end of the concert, but this was not included in the programme until 2015. However, when James Loughran, a Scot, conducted the Last Night concert in the late 1970s and early 1980s he did include the piece within the programme.

Tickets are highly sought after. Promming tickets are priced the same as for that season's concerts, but seated tickets are more expensive. To pre-book a seat, it is necessary to have bought tickets for at least five other concerts in the season and an advance booking for the Last Night must include those five concerts; the seat for the Last Night cannot be a better one (in terms of its pricing) than those for the other concerts. After the advance booking period, there is no requirement to have booked for additional concerts, but by then the Last Night is usually sold out, although returns may be available. For standing places, a full season pass automatically includes admission to the Last Night; day Prommers must present five ticket stubs from previous concerts to qualify for a standing Last Night ticket, either in the Arena or Gallery (prior to 2009, the requirement was for six other concerts).

In recent years,[clarify] some Arena standing tickets have been available for purchase on the day, with no requirement to have attended previous concerts. These are sold on a 'first-come first-served' basis to those prepared to queue.[77] In the post-war period, with the growing popularity of the Last Night, the only way to obtain tickets was through a postal ballot held well in advance. An annual ballot now exists for the chance to purchase a maximum of two tickets from a special allocation of 100 stalls seats.[77]

Prommers with tickets are likely to queue up much earlier than usual (many overnight, and in past years, some slept outside the hall for up to three weeks to guard their place – although this is no longer permitted) to ensure a good place to stand; the resulting camaraderie adds to the atmosphere. Some attend in fancy dress, from dinner jackets to patriotic T-shirts. Many use the occasion for an exuberant display of Britishness. Union Flags are waved by the Prommers, especially during "Rule, Britannia!". Other national flags, balloons and party poppers are all welcomed – although John Drummond discouraged 'extraneous noise' during his tenure as director.

Sir Henry Wood's bust is adorned with a laurel chaplet by representatives of the Promenaders, who often wipe an imaginary bead of sweat from his forehead or make some similar gentle visual joke. As with the rest of the season, the cost of promming tickets (standing tickets) is just £6. Many consider these to be the best tickets due to the atmosphere of standing in the hall for up to three hours, albeit with a twenty-five minute interval.

Another tradition is that near the end of the concert the conductor makes a speech thanking the musicians and audiences, mentioning the main themes of the season, noting the cumulative donation collected for the Promenaders' musical charities over the season, and announcing the date of the First Night for the following year. This tradition dates from 1941, when Sir Henry Wood gave the first such speech at the close of that season, which was the first at the Royal Albert Hall, when he thanked colleagues and sponsors. Wood gave a similar speech at the 1942 Last Night, and a pre-recorded version was played at the 1943 Last Night. During his tenure as conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent established the tone of making the Last Night speech more humorous. Subsequent conductors have generally continued this, although one exception was in 1997 when Sir Andrew Davis addressed the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales, Mother Teresa, and Sir Georg Solti in 1997.[78]

Leonard Slatkin, chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 2000 to 2004, expressed a desire to tone down the nationalism of the Last Night, and during the seasons from 2002 until 2007 "Rule Britannia" was only heard as part of Henry Wood's '"Fantasia on British Sea Songs" (another piece traditional to the Last Night) rather than separately. Slatkin, an American and the first non-Commonwealth citizen to lead the Last Night, conducted his first in 2001, just days after the 9/11 attacks. The atmosphere was more restrained and less festive than normal, with a heavily revised programme where the finale of Beethoven's 9th Symphony replaced the "Sea Songs", and Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" was performed in tribute to 9/11 victims.[79]

On the day of the 2005 Last Night, the hall management received word of a bomb threat, which led to a thorough search of the Albert Hall for 5 hours, but the concert took place after a short delay. This has led to increased security concerns, given the stature of the Last Night in British culture, which Jacqui Kelly of the Royal Albert Hall staff noted:

That was quite a nerve-wracker – our biggest event, the one everybody knows the Albert Hall for, and we were in real danger of losing it. We're an iconic thing, up there in the public eye, so we have to expect that.[80]

2008 also contained some departures from the traditional programme. "Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1" was moved to after the conductor's speech. In addition, most of Wood's "Fantasia on British Sea Songs" was replaced by Vaughan Williams's Sea Songs as a final tribute in his anniversary year. However, Wood's arrangements of naval bugle calls from the start of the "Fantasia" were retained, and Sargent's arrangement of "Rule Britannia" returned with Bryn Terfel as soloist. As on his 1994 Last Night appearance,[81] he sang one verse in a Welsh translation, with the chorus also translated into Welsh. Additionally, 2008 saw the inclusion of Scottish composer Anna Meredith to the programme for her Proms premiere, froms, which involved five different groups of musicians telecasting in from around Britain.[82]

2009 saw the continued absence of Wood's Sea Songs, this time replaced by specially commissioned fanfares, and extracts from Handel's "Music for the Royal Fireworks".[83][84] In 2009, for the first time, the Last Night was shown live in several cinemas across Asia and in Canada and Australia.[85]

The 2014 Last Night saw soprano Elizabeth Watts wearing a dress by Vivienne Westwood, which was auctioned in aid of Streetwise Opera. The online auction ran from 8 September to 18 September.[86]

In 2016, anti-Brexit protestors waved EU flags in addition to the usual Union Jack flags.[87] The protests have continued in subsequent years.[88]

In 2020, the concert was performed to an empty hall, due to the COVID-19 restrictions in place in the UK.[89]

In 2022, the concert was cancelled 48 hours before it was scheduled to happen, following the death of Queen Elizabeth II; this was the first Last Night cancellation since 1944. Dalia Stasevska had been selected to conduct. Because of the cancellation of the Last Night in 2022, no date for the First Night of the Proms for 2023 has yet been announced.

Last Night conductors

The following table lists by year the conductors of the Last Night of the Proms. In general, since the tenure of Sargent, the Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra has led this concert, but guest conductors have directed the Last Night on several occasions. Additionally, the tradition was for a British conductor, and if not the current serving Chief Conductor, one who had an association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra or one of the other BBC orchestras. Charles Mackerras was the first non-British-born conductor to lead the Last Night, in 1980. Leonard Slatkin was the first American conductor of the Last Night in 2001. Jiří Bělohlávek was the first non-native English speaker to conduct the Last Night, in 2007. Marin Alsop was the Last Night's first female conductor in 2013.[90]

Conductor Last Night(s) ...[a]
19th c.–1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s
Henry Wood[b] 1895–1938, 1941–1943[a]
Sir Adrian Boult 1945, 1946[c][d]
Basil Cameron 1945[e]
Constant Lambert
Sir Malcolm Sargent 1947–1966
Colin Davis[f] 1967–1972
Norman Del Mar[g] 1973, 1975 1983[c]
Sir Charles Groves[h] 1974, 1976, 1978[c]
James Loughran[g] 1977, 1979 1981, 1982, 1984[c]
Sir Charles Mackerras[d] 1980[c]
Vernon Handley 1985[c]
Raymond Leppard[h] 1986[c]
Mark Elder[i] 1987[c] 2006[c]
Sir Andrew Davis[j] 1988[c] 1990[k]–1992, 1994–1999 2000[c] 2018[l]
Sir John Pritchard 1989
Barry Wordsworth[d] 1993[c]
Leonard Slatkin 2001–2004
Paul Daniel 2005[c]
Jiří Bělohlávek 2007 2010, 2012
Sir Roger Norrington 2008[c]
David Robertson 2009[c][m]
Edward Gardner 2011[c]
Marin Alsop 2013, 2015[c]
Sakari Oramo[93] 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019 2021
Dalia Stasevska[89] 2020[c]
  1. ^ a b The 1939 season was curtailed by the outbreak of war, and the 1940 season by German bombing, meaning that there was no official "Last Night". Only the first few concerts were held in public in 1944 due to renewed bombing. Wood died shortly before what should have been the end of the 1944 season.[91] The 2022 season was curtailed by the death of Elizabeth II, meaning that there was no official "Last Night" for that year
  2. ^ Sir Henry from 1911 onwards
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Duties undertaken as Guest Conductor, rather than as resident Chief Conductor, BBC Symphony Orchestra
  4. ^ a b c Former Principal Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra
  5. ^ Constant Lambert, Basil Cameron and Sir Adrian Boult jointly undertook proceedings upon the return in 1945
  6. ^ Later Sir Colin
  7. ^ a b Former Chief Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
  8. ^ a b Former Principal Conductor of the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra (later the BBC Philharmonic)
  9. ^ Later Sir Mark
  10. ^ Sir Andrew from 1999 onwards[92]
  11. ^ replacing Mark Elder
  12. ^ Davis is currently Conductor Laureate of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, having served as Chief Conductor from 1989–2000.
  13. ^ Robertson was Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC SO from 2005 to 2012

Proms in the Park

The Royal Albert Hall could be filled many times over with people who would wish to attend. To involve extra people, and to cater for those who are not near London, the Proms in the Park concerts were started in 1996. Initially there was one, in Hyde Park adjacent to the Hall, which was a simple video relay of the concert at the Royal Albert Hall. As audiences grew, Proms in the Park started to have musicians of their own on stage, including the BBC Concert Orchestra.[94]

In the 2000s, Proms in the Park started to be held in other locations across the UK, usually with one of the BBC's orchestras playing. In 2005, Belfast, Glasgow, Swansea and Manchester hosted a Last Night Prom in the Park, broadcast live from each venue. In 2007 Manchester's prom was replaced by one in Middlesbrough. In 2008 the number reduced from five to four, in Hyde Park, Belfast, Glasgow and Swansea. 2009 returned to a total of five, in Hyde Park, Glasgow, Swansea, County Down and Salford. Each location has its own live concert, typically playing the national anthem of the host country, before joining in a live big screen video link up with the Royal Albert Hall for the traditional finale.

In recent years Proms in the Park has become a series of established events in their own right, with events in Hyde Park and in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, managed by BBC Scotland, BBC Cymru Wales and BBC Northern Ireland respectively, in conjunction with the host local authority. Each event has a presenting team, a live orchestra, a video link to the Last Night of the Proms in London, and guest soloists and choirs. Events tend to move to different cities to cover a wider geographical area within the host nations.

All of these events are incorporated within BBC One's live coverage of the Last Night of the Proms, with live link-ups to each of the venues. However, some more traditional elements of the Last Night of the Proms (such as "Jerusalem", "Rule Britannia" and "Land of Hope and Glory") have been removed on some years depending on local politics.[95][96]

As the popularity of Proms in the Park grew, many communities across the UK decided to hold their own "Proms in the Park" events that were not affiliated with the BBC.

Year BBC Concert Orchestra BBC National Orchestra
and Chorus of Wales 		BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Ulster Orchestra BBC Philharmonic (P)
Halle Orchestra (H)
Northern Sinfonia (NS)
1996[97] Hyde Park, London
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001 Music Centre Gateshead[98] (NS)
2002[99] Belfast[100]
2003[101] Singleton Park, Swansea Pacific Quay, Glasgow Donegal Square, Belfast
2004[102] Cathedral Gardens, Manchester (H)
2005 Glasgow Green Belfast City Hall Heaton Park, Manchester[103] (P)
2006
2007[104] Carrickfergus Castle Centre Square, Middlesbrough (NS)
2008[105] Belfast City Hall[106]
2009[107] Hillsborough Castle, County Down[108] Buile Hill Park, Salford[109][110] (P)
2010 Caird Hall, Dundee[111][112]
2011 Caerphilly Castle Castle Park, Bangor[113]
2012[114] Glasgow City Halls Titanic Slipways, Belfast
2013 Glasgow Green
2014 Singleton Park, Swansea
2015[115]
2016 Colwyn Bay
2017 Singleton Park, Swansea Castle Coole, Enniskillen[116]
2018 Colwyn Bay[117] Titanic Slipways, Belfast
2019[118] Singleton Park, Swansea
2020 No public events due to COVID-19. A small invited audience watched the Last Night from London.
2021 No public events scheduled due to COVID-19. There was a live link-up to Assembly Festival Garden, Coventry.
2022 No public events due to the death and state funeral of the Queen Elizabeth II and the cancellation of the Last Night of the Proms.

The first live relays outside of London were to Swansea and Birmingham in 1999.[119]

In 2001, there were also live link-ups to Cornwall and Liverpool.

In 2011, Caerphilly's Proms in the Park was cancelled before the concert started due to heavy rainfall[120]

Proms seasons

No Season Start date (1st night) End date (Last night) Location No of Proms
1 1895 Saturday 10 August Saturday 5 October Queen's Hall, London 49
2 1896 Saturday 29 August Saturday 10 October Queen's Hall, London 37
3 1897 Saturday 28 August Saturday 9 October Queen's Hall, London 43
4 1898 Saturday 27 August Saturday 15 October Queen's Hall, London 43
5 1899 Saturday 26 August Saturday 21 October Queen's Hall, London 49
6 1900 Saturday 25 August Saturday 10 October Queen's Hall, London 67
7 Summer 1901 Saturday 24 August Saturday 9 October Queen's Hall, London 67
7a Winter 1901/02 Saturday 26 December Saturday 1 February Queen's Hall, London 33
8 1902 Saturday 23 August Saturday 8 November Queen's Hall, London 67
9 1903 Saturday 22 August Friday 23 October Queen's Hall, London 54
10 1904 Saturday 6 August Friday 21 October Queen's Hall, London 66
11 1905 Saturday 19 August Friday 27 October Queen's Hall, London 60
12 1906 Saturday 18 August Friday 26 October Queen's Hall, London 60
13 1907 Saturday 17 August Saturday 26 October Queen's Hall, London 61
14 1908 Saturday 15 August Saturday 24 October Queen's Hall, London 61
15 1909 Saturday 14 August Saturday 23 October Queen's Hall, London 61
16 1910 Saturday 13 August Saturday 22 October Queen's Hall, London 61
17 1911 Saturday 12 August Saturday 21 October Queen's Hall, London 61
18 1912 Saturday 17 August Saturday 26 October Queen's Hall, London 61
19 1913 Saturday 16 August Saturday 25 October Queen's Hall, London 61
20 1914 Saturday 15 August Saturday 24 October Queen's Hall, London 61
21 1915 Saturday 14 August Saturday 23 October Queen's Hall, London 61
22 1916 Saturday 26 August Saturday 21 October Queen's Hall, London 49
23 1917 Saturday 25 August Saturday 20 October Queen's Hall, London 49
24 1918 Saturday 11 August Saturday 19 October Queen's Hall, London 61
25 1919 Saturday 16 August Saturday 25 October Queen's Hall, London 61
26 1920 Saturday 14 August Saturday 23 October Queen's Hall, London 61
27 1921 Saturday 13 August Saturday 22 October Queen's Hall, London 61
28 1922 Saturday 12 August Saturday 21 October Queen's Hall, London 61
29 1923 Saturday 11 August Saturday 20 October Queen's Hall, London 61
30 1924 Saturday 9 August Saturday 18 October Queen's Hall, London 61
31 1925 Saturday 8 August Saturday 17 October Queen's Hall, London 61
32 1926 Saturday 14 August Saturday 16 October Queen's Hall, London 55
33 1927 Saturday 13 August Saturday 24 October Queen's Hall, London 37
34 1928 Saturday 11 August Saturday 6 October Queen's Hall, London 49
35 1929 Saturday 10 August Saturday 5 October Queen's Hall, London 49
36 1930 (Northern) Monday 26 May Saturday 21 June Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Philharmonic, Liverpool
Town Hall, Leeds		 24
36a 1930 (London) Saturday 9 August Saturday 4 October Queen's Hall, London 49
37 1931 Saturday 8 August Saturday 3 October Queen's Hall, London 48
38 Summer 1932 Saturday 6 August Saturday 1 October Queen's Hall, London 49
38a Winter 1932/33 Saturday 31 December Saturday 14 February Queen's Hall, London 13
39 1933 Saturday 12 August Saturday 7 October Queen's Hall, London 49
40 Summer 1934 Saturday 11 August Saturday 6 October Queen's Hall, London 49
40a Winter 1934/35 Monday 31 December Saturday 12 January Queen's Hall, London 12
41 Summer 1935 Saturday 10 August Saturday 5 October Queen's Hall, London 49
41a Winter 1935/36 Monday 30 December Saturday 11 January Queen's Hall, London 12
42 1936 Saturday 8 August Saturday 3 October Queen's Hall, London 49
43 1937 Saturday 7 August Saturday 2 October Queen's Hall, London 49
44 1938 Saturday 6 August Saturday 1 October Queen's Hall, London 49
45 1939 Saturday 12 August Friday 1 September Queen's Hall, London 17.5[a]
46 1940 Saturday 10 August Saturday 7 September Queen's Hall, London 25[b]
47 1941 Saturday 12 July Saturday 23 August Royal Albert Hall, London 37
48 1942 Saturday 27 June Saturday 22 August Royal Albert Hall, London 49
49 1943 Saturday 19 June Saturday 21 August Royal Albert Hall, London 55
50 1944 Saturday 10 June Thursday 29 June Royal Albert Hall, London 17[c]
51 1945 Saturday 21 July Saturday 15 September Royal Albert Hall, London 49
52 1946 Saturday 27 July Saturday 21 September Royal Albert Hall, London 49
52a Winter 1947 Monday 6 January Saturday 18 January Royal Albert Hall, London 12
53 Summer 1947 Saturday 19 July Saturday 13 September Royal Albert Hall, London 49
53a Winter 1948 Monday 5 January Saturday 17 January Royal Albert Hall, London 12
54 Summer 1948 Saturday 24 July Saturday 18 September Royal Albert Hall, London 49
54a Winter 1949 Monday 10 January Saturday 22 January Royal Albert Hall, London 12
55 Summer 1949 Saturday 23 July Saturday 17 September Royal Albert Hall, London 49
55a Winter 1950 Monday 9 January Saturday 21 January Royal Albert Hall, London 12
56 Summer 1950 Saturday 22 July Saturday 16 September Royal Albert Hall, London 49
56a Winter 1951 Monday 8 January Saturday 20 January Royal Albert Hall, London 12
57 Summer 1951 Saturday 28 July Saturday 22 September Royal Albert Hall, London 49
58 Winter 1952 Monday 7 January Saturday 19 January Royal Albert Hall, London 12
58a 1952 Saturday 26 July Saturday 20 September Royal Albert Hall, London 49
59 1953 Saturday 25 July Saturday 19 September Royal Albert Hall, London 49
60 1954 Saturday 24 July Saturday 18 September Royal Albert Hall, London 49
61 1955 Saturday 23 July Saturday 17 September Royal Albert Hall, London 49
62 1956 Saturday 21 July Saturday 15 September Royal Albert Hall, London 49
63 1957 Saturday 20 July Saturday 14 September Royal Albert Hall, London 49
64 1958 Saturday 26 July Saturday 20 September Royal Albert Hall, London 49
65 1959 Saturday 25 July Saturday 19 September Royal Albert Hall, London 49
66 1960 Saturday 23 July Saturday 17 September Royal Albert Hall, London 49
67 1961 Saturday 22 July Saturday 16 September Royal Albert Hall, London 49
68 1962 Saturday 21 July Saturday 15 September Royal Albert Hall, London 49
69 1963 Saturday 20 July Saturday 14 September Royal Albert Hall, London 49
70 1964 Saturday 25 July Saturday 19 September Royal Albert Hall, London 49
71 1965 Saturday 17 July Saturday 11 September Royal Albert Hall, London 49
72 1966 Saturday 23 July Saturday 17 September Royal Albert Hall, London 50
73 1967 Saturday 22 July Saturday 16 September Royal Albert Hall, London 51
74 1968 Friday 19 July Saturday 14 September Royal Albert Hall, London 52
75 1969 Friday 18 July Saturday 13 September Royal Albert Hall, London 52
76 1970 Friday 17 July Saturday 12 September Royal Albert Hall, London 53
77 1971 Friday 23 July Saturday 18 September Royal Albert Hall, London 54
78 1972 Friday 21 July Saturday 16 September Royal Albert Hall, London 57
78a Winter 1972/73 Friday 29 December Friday 5 January Royal Albert Hall, London 8
79 1973 Friday 20 July Saturday 15 September Royal Albert Hall, London 55
80 1974 Friday 19 July Saturday 14 September Royal Albert Hall, London 55
81 1975 Friday 25 July Saturday 20 September Royal Albert Hall, London 57
82 1976 Friday 16 July Saturday 11 September Royal Albert Hall, London 56
83 1977 Friday 22 July Saturday 17 September Royal Albert Hall, London 55
84 1978 Friday 21 July Saturday 16 September Royal Albert Hall, London 55
85 1979 Friday 20 July Saturday 15 September Royal Albert Hall, London 54
86 1980 Friday 18 July Saturday 13 September Royal Albert Hall, London 57
87 1981 Friday 17 July Saturday 12 September Royal Albert Hall, London 56
88 1982 Friday 16 July Saturday 11 September Royal Albert Hall, London 57
89 1983 Friday 22 July Saturday 17 September Royal Albert Hall, London 57
90 1984 Friday 20 July Saturday 15 September Royal Albert Hall, London 59
91 1985 Friday 19 July Saturday 14 September Royal Albert Hall, London 60
92 1986 Friday 18 July Saturday 13 September Royal Albert Hall, London 60
93 1987 Friday 17 July Saturday 12 September Royal Albert Hall, London 66
94 1988 Friday 22 July Saturday 17 September Royal Albert Hall, London 69
95 1989 Friday 21 July Saturday 16 September Royal Albert Hall, London 68
96 1990 Friday 20 July Saturday 15 September Royal Albert Hall, London 66
97 1991 Friday 19 July Saturday 14 September Royal Albert Hall, London 67
98 1992 Friday 17 July Saturday 12 September Royal Albert Hall, London 66
99 1993 Friday 16 July Saturday 11 September Royal Albert Hall, London 67
100 1994 Friday 15 July Saturday 10 September Royal Albert Hall, London 68
101 1995 Friday 21 July Saturday 16 September Royal Albert Hall, London 70
102 1996 Friday 19 July Saturday 14 September Royal Albert Hall, London 72
103 1997 Friday 18 July Saturday 13 September Royal Albert Hall, London 73
104 1998 Friday 17 July Saturday 12 September Royal Albert Hall, London 73
105 1999 Friday 16 July Saturday 11 September Royal Albert Hall, London 72
106 2000 Friday 14 July Saturday 9 September Royal Albert Hall, London 72
107 2001 Friday 20 July Saturday 15 September Royal Albert Hall, London 73
108 2002 Friday 19 July Saturday 14 September Royal Albert Hall, London 73
109 2003 Friday 18 July Saturday 13 September Royal Albert Hall, London 73
110 2004 Friday 16 July Saturday 11 September Royal Albert Hall, London 74
111 2005 Friday 15 July Saturday 10 September Royal Albert Hall, London 74
112 2006 Friday 14 July Saturday 9 September Royal Albert Hall, London 73
113 2007 Friday 13 July Saturday 8 September Royal Albert Hall, London 72
114 2008 Friday 18 July Saturday 13 September Royal Albert Hall, London 76
115 2009 Friday 17 July Saturday 12 September Royal Albert Hall, London 76
116 2010 Friday 16 July Saturday 11 September Royal Albert Hall, London 76
117 2011 Friday 15 July Saturday 10 September Royal Albert Hall, London 74
118 2012 Friday 13 July Saturday 8 September Royal Albert Hall, London 76
119 2013 Friday 12 July Saturday 7 September Royal Albert Hall, London 75
120 2014 Friday 18 July Saturday 13 September Royal Albert Hall, London 76
121 2015 Friday 17 July Saturday 12 September Royal Albert Hall, London 76
122 2016 Friday 15 July Saturday 10 September Royal Albert Hall, London 75
123 2017 Friday 14 July Saturday 9 September Royal Albert Hall, London 75
124 2018 Friday 13 July Saturday 8 September Royal Albert Hall, London 75
125 2019 Friday 19 July Saturday 14 September Royal Albert Hall, London 75
126 2020 Friday 17 July Saturday 12 September Royal Albert Hall, London 15[d]
127 2021 Friday 30 July Saturday 11 September Royal Albert Hall, London 61
128 2022 Friday 15 July Thursday 8 September Royal Albert Hall, London 69[e]
129 2023 TBA Saturday 9 September Royal Albert Hall, London TBD
  1. ^ The second half of concert 18 and the remaining 31 concerts (19–49) of the 1939 season (Saturday 2 September to Saturday 7 October) were cancelled after the United Kingdom received the news of the outbreak of World War II
  2. ^ Concerts 26–49 of the 1940 season (Saturday 8 September to Saturday 5 October) were cancelled due to intensified nightly air raids during World War II
  3. ^ Concerts 18–55 (Friday 30 June to Saturday 12 August) of the 1944 season were cancelled due to V-1 flying bombs ("Doodle Bugs") which had started to fall on London during World War II
  4. ^ Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the first 60 concerts (comprising the first six weeks of the season) were cancelled after plans to hold the concerts without an audience became financially unfeasible. During the first six weeks, concerts from previous seasons of the BBC Proms were shown on BBC Television; the final two weeks of the season were broadcast as scheduled live from London's Royal Albert Hall without an audience.[121]
  5. ^ The last three concerts, including the Last Night, were cancelled following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. However, on 8 September, when the Philadelphia Orchestra was about to perform the 70th Prom before being cancelled, out of respect for the Queen, they played the national anthem and "Nimrod" from the Enigma Variations.

Proms Controllers

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This article is about the British concerts For other uses see Prom disambiguation The BBC Proms or Proms formally named the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts Presented by the BBC 1 2 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 The Proms were founded in 1895 and are now organised and broadcast by the BBC Each season consists of concerts in the Royal Albert Hall chamber music concerts at Cadogan Hall additional Proms in the Park events across the UK on the Last Night of the Proms and associated educational and children s events The season is a significant event in British culture and in classical music Czech conductor Jiri Belohlavek described the Proms as the world s largest and most democratic musical festival 3 Current BBC Proms logo used from 2022 Proms season Outside the Royal Albert Hall during the BBC Proms season of 2008 Prom is short for promenade concert a term which originally referred to outdoor concerts in London s pleasure gardens where the audience was free to stroll around while the orchestra was playing In the context of the BBC Proms promming refers to the use of the standing areas inside the hall the Arena and Gallery for which ticket prices are much lower than for the seating Proms concert goers particularly those who stand are sometimes referred to as Prommers or Promenaders Contents 1 History 1 1 Origins and Sir Henry Wood 1 2 During World War II 1 3 Post war 1 4 Since 1990 2 Proms seasons 2 1 2006 2 2 2007 2 3 2008 2 4 2009 2 5 2010 2 6 2011 2 7 2012 2 8 2013 2 9 2014 2 10 2015 2 11 2016 2 12 2017 2 13 2018 2 14 2019 2 15 2020 2 16 2021 2 17 2022 3 Last Night of the Proms 3 1 Last Night conductors 4 Proms in the Park 5 Proms seasons 6 Proms Controllers 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksHistory Edit A promenade concert in the Royal Albert Hall 2004 The bust of Sir Henry Wood can be seen in front of the organ Origins and Sir Henry Wood Edit Promenade concerts had existed in London s pleasure gardens since the mid 18th century and indoor proms became a feature of 19th century musical life in London from 1838 notably under the direction of Louis Antoine Jullien and Sir Arthur Sullivan 4 The annual series of Proms continuing today had their roots in that movement They were inaugurated on 10 August 1895 in the Queen s Hall in Langham Place by the impresario Robert Newman who was fully experienced in running similar concerts at His Majesty s Theatre 5 Newman wished to generate a wider audience for concert hall music by offering low ticket prices and an informal atmosphere where eating drinking and smoking were permitted to the promenaders He stated his aim to Henry Wood in 1894 6 as follows I am going to run nightly concerts and train the public by easy stages Popular at first gradually raising the standard until I have created a public for classical and modern music 7 George Cathcart an otolaryngologist gave financial backing to Newman for the series called Mr Robert Newman s Promenade Concerts on condition that Henry Wood be employed as the sole conductor 8 9 Wood aged 26 seized this opportunity and built the Queen s Hall Orchestra as the ensemble specially devoted to performing the promenade concerts 10 Cathcart also stipulated contrary to Newman s preference the adoption of French or Open Diapason concert pitch necessitating the acquisition of an entirely new set of wind instruments for the orchestra and the re tuning of the Queen s Hall organ This coincided with the adoption of this lower pitch by other leading orchestras and concert series 11 Although the concerts gained a popular following and reputation Newman went bankrupt in 1902 and the banker Edgar Speyer took over the expense of funding them Wood received a knighthood in 1911 In 1914 anti German feeling led Speyer to surrender his role and music publishers Chappell amp Co took control of the concerts 12 Although Newman remained involved in artistic planning it was Wood s name which became most closely associated with the Proms 13 As conductor from the first concert which opened with Wagner s Rienzi overture in 1895 Sir Henry was largely responsible for building the repertoire heard as the series continued from year to year While including many popular and less demanding works in the first season there were substantial nights devoted to Beethoven or Schubert and a programme of new works was given in the final week Distinguished singers including Sims Reeves and Signor Foli appeared In the first two decades Wood firmly established the policy of introducing works by contemporary composers both British and international and of bringing fresh life to unperformed or under performed works 14 A bronze bust of Sir Henry Wood recovered from the ruins of the bombed out Queen s Hall in 1941 and now belonging to the Royal Academy of Music 15 is still placed in front of the organ for the whole Promenade season Though the concerts are now called the BBC Proms and are headlined with the BBC logo the tickets are subtitled BBC Music presents the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts Sir Henry Wood s Queen s Hall Orchestra rehearsing for the first Promenade Concert of the 1927 Season from the BBC Hand Book 1928 In 1927 following Newman s sudden death in the previous year the BBC later based at Broadcasting House next to the hall took over the running of the concerts 16 This arose because William Boosey then managing director of Chappell amp Co the Prom proprietors detested broadcasting and saw the BBC s far reaching demands and intentions in the control of musical presentation as a danger to the future of public concerts altogether He decided to disband the New Queen s Hall Orchestra which played for the last time at a Symphony concert on 19 March 1927 He found it more expedient to let the Queen s Hall to the broadcasting powers rather than to continue the Promenade concerts and other big series independently in an unequal competition with what was effectively the Government itself So the Proms were saved but under a different kind of authority The personnel of the New Queen s Hall Orchestra effectively continued until 1930 as Sir Henry J Wood and his Symphony Orchestra 17 When the BBC Symphony Orchestra BBC SO was formed in 1930 it became the main orchestra for the concerts At this time the season consisted of nights dedicated to particular composers Mondays were Wagner Fridays were Beethoven with other major composers being featured on other days There were no Sunday performances During World War II Edit With the outbreak of World War II in 1939 the BBC withdrew its support However private sponsors stepped in to maintain the Proms always under Sir Henry Wood s direction until the Queen s Hall was devastated beyond repair during an air raid in May 1941 The site is now occupied by the St George s Hotel and BBC Henry Wood House The concerts then moved until 1944 to their current home the Royal Albert Hall during the Promenade season presented by Keith Douglas in conjunction with the Royal Philharmonic Society of which he was Secretary 18 19 The London Symphony Orchestra had sometimes assisted in the series since after 1927 the New Queen s Hall Orchestra had ceased to function and in 1942 Sir Henry Wood also invited the London Philharmonic Orchestra under its new leader Jean Pougnet to participate in this and subsequent seasons 20 In this he was attempting to maintain vigour in the programme under the renewal of its relationship with the BBC as promoters 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 21 During that period Sir Adrian Boult chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Basil Cameron also took on conducting duties for the series 22 continuing them in 1944 when under increased danger from bombing they were moved again this time to the Bedford Corn Exchange home of the BBC Symphony Orchestra since 1941 which hosted them until the end of the War Post war Edit Sir Adrian Boult and Basil Cameron continued as conductors of the Promenade Concerts after the War on their return to the Royal Albert Hall until the advent of Malcolm Sargent as Proms chief conductor in 1947 Sargent held this post until 1966 his associate conductor from 1949 to 1959 was John Hollingsworth Sargent was noted for his immaculate appearance evening dress carnation and his witty addresses where he good naturedly chided the noisy Prommers Sir Malcolm championed choral music and classical and British composers especially Samuel Coleridge Taylor The charity founded in his name CLIC Sargent continues to hold a special Promenade Concert each year shortly after the main season ends CLIC Sargent the Musicians Benevolent Fund and further musical charities chosen each year also benefit from thousands of pounds in donations from Prommers after most concerts When asking for donations Prommers from the Arena regularly announce to the audience the running donations total at concert intervals through the season or before the concert when there is no interval After Wood s death Julian Herbage acted as de facto principal administrator of the Proms for a number of years as a freelance employee after his retirement from the BBC with assistance from such staff as Edward Clark and Kenneth Wright 23 During the tenure of William Glock as Controller of the Proms from 1960 to 1973 the Proms repertory expanded both forwards in time to encompass then contemporary and avant garde composers such as Boulez Berio Carter Dallapiccola Peter Maxwell Davies Gerhard Henze Ligeti Lutoslawski Lutyens Maw Messiaen Nono Stockhausen and Tippett as well as backwards to include music by past composers such as Purcell Cavalli Monteverdi Byrd Palestrina Dufay Dunstaple and Machaut as well as less often performed works of Johann Sebastian Bach and Joseph Haydn 24 From the 1960s the number of guest orchestras at the Proms also began to increase with the first major international conductors Leopold Stokowski Georg Solti and Carlo Maria Giulini performing in 1963 and the first foreign orchestra the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra performing in 1966 Since that time almost every major international orchestra conductor and soloist has performed at the Proms In 1970 Soft Machine s appearance led to press attention and comment as the first pop band to perform there The 1968 season began on a Friday night instead of the usual Saturday night This concert marked a tribute to Sir Malcolm Sargent who had died shortly after delivering a brief speech from the rostrum at the Last Night in 1967 He had been too ill to actually conduct that concert Every year since then the Proms have always started on a Friday night in July Since 1990 Edit The Proms continue today and still present newly commissioned music alongside pieces more central to the repertoire and early music Innovations continue with pre Prom talks lunchtime chamber concerts children s Proms Proms in the Park either appearing or being featured more heavily over the past few years In the UK all concerts are broadcast on BBC Radio 3 an increasing number are televised on BBC Four with some also shown on BBC One and BBC Two The theme tune that used to be played at the beginning of each programme broadcast on television until the 2011 season was an extract from the end of the Red movement of Arthur Bliss s A Colour Symphony It is also possible to hear the concerts live from the BBC Proms website The Last Night is also broadcast in many countries around the world In 1996 a related series of eight lunchtime chamber concerts was started taking place on Mondays during the Proms season In their first year these were held in the Britten Hall of the Royal College of Music just across Prince Consort Road from the Albert Hall The following year they moved slightly further afield to the Henry Cole Lecture Theatre at the Victoria and Albert Museum In 2005 they moved further again to the new Cadogan Hall just off London s Sloane Square These allow the Proms to include music which is not suitable for the vast spaces of the Albert Hall From 1998 to 2007 the Blue Peter Prom in partnership with long running BBC television programme Blue Peter was an annual fixture 25 Aimed at children and families the Prom is informal including audience participation jokes and popular classics 26 High demand for tickets which are among the lowest priced in the season saw this Prom be split in 2004 into two Proms with identical content 27 In 2008 the Blue Peter Prom was replaced with a Doctor Who Prom which was revived in both the 2010 and 2013 seasons 28 The 2004 season also featured the Hall s newly rebuilt pipe organ It took two years to complete the task 2002 2004 and was the work of Noel Mander Ltd of London It was the first complete restoration of the instrument since Harrison and Harrison s work in 1936 The tradition of Promming remains an important aspect of the festival with over 1000 standing places available for each concert either in the central arena rather like the groundlings in the pit at Shakespeare s Globe or high in the hall s gallery Promming tickets cost the same for all concerts currently 6 as of 2018 29 providing a considerably cheaper option for the more popular events Since the tickets cannot be bought until 9am on the morning of the concert 30 although there are full season tickets first weekend and weekly passes available they provide a way of attending otherwise sold out concerts 31 32 In 2010 the Proms Archive was introduced on the BBC Proms webpage to allow for a systematic searching of all works that have been performed and all artists who have appeared at the Proms since their inception On 1 September 2011 a Prom given by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra was severely affected by interruptions from pro Palestinian protesters 33 While the Palestine Solidarity Campaign had urged a boycott they denied being behind the disruption inside the Royal Albert Hall For the first time ever the BBC took a Prom concert off the air 34 Successive Controllers of the Proms after Glock have been Robert Ponsonby 1973 1985 John Drummond 1986 1995 Nicholas Kenyon 1996 2007 and Roger Wright 2007 2014 Between 1986 and 2014 the post of Director BBC Proms had mostly been combined with the role of Controller BBC Radio 3 Edward Blakeman editor of BBC Radio 3 became interim Proms Director upon Wright s departure in July 2014 35 In May 2015 the BBC announced the appointment of David Pickard as the next Director of BBC Proms 36 37 Proms seasons Edit The Proms 2005 Most people sit while Promenaders stand in front of the orchestra The Royal Albert Hall Organ is in the background 2006 Edit The 2006 season the 112th marked the 250th birthday celebrations of Mozart and the centenary of Shostakovich s birth New initiatives included four Saturday matinee concerts at the Cadogan Hall and the chance for audience members to get involved with The Voice a collaborative piece performed in two Proms on 29 July On 3 September 2006 a concert was cancelled due to a fire 38 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 39 2007 Edit The 2007 season ran from 13 July to 8 September Early press coverage focused heavily on the fact that musical theatre star Michael Ball would be the central performer in a concert on 27 August and a concert of British film music on 14 July This led to media accusations of dumbing down despite Kenyon s defence of the programme 40 41 42 Anniversaries marked in this Proms season included The 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Edward Elgar The 100th anniversary of the death of Edvard Grieg The 50th anniversary of the death of Jean Sibelius 80 years since the first BBC sponsorship of the Proms The series also included an additional series of four Saturday matinee concerts at Cadogan Hall The 2007 season was Kenyon s last season as controller of the BBC Proms before he became managing director at the Barbican Centre 43 Roger Wright became Controller of the Proms in October 2007 whilst retaining responsibility for BBC Radio 3 and taking up a broader role controlling the BBC s classical music output across all media 44 2008 Edit The 2008 season ran from 18 July to 13 September 2008 The BBC released details of the season slightly earlier than usual on 9 April 2008 45 Composers whose anniversaries were marked include Ralph Vaughan Williams 50th anniversary of his death Elliott Carter 100th birthday Olivier Messiaen 100th anniversary of his birth Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov centenary of his death Karlheinz Stockhausen 80th anniversary of his birthThe celebration of Stockhausen was centred on two large scale concerts on 2 August 2008 and complementing Vaughan Williams s interest in folk music the first Sunday was given over to a celebration of various aspects of British folk including free events in Kensington Gardens and the Albert Hall and ending with the first ever Proms ceilidh in the Albert Hall itself 46 Other changes included additional pre Prom talks and events For the first time there was a related talk or event before every Prom held in the Royal College of Music The popular family oriented Prom this year became the Doctor Who Prom in place of the Blue Peter Prom of recent years 47 The Doctor Who Prom included a mini episode of Doctor Who Music of the Spheres Just over a month before the announcement of the season Margaret Hodge a Minister of State at the Department for Culture Media and Sport suggested that the Proms was one of several big cultural events that many people did not feel comfortable attending and advocated an increase in multicultural works and an effort to broaden the audience Her comments received wide criticism in the musical world and media as being a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the Proms with the then UK prime minister Gordon Brown even distancing himself from her remarks 48 2009 Edit In the 2009 season which ran from 17 July to 12 September 2009 the total number of concerts reached 100 for the first time The principal anniversary composers included George Frideric Handel 250th anniversary of his death Joseph Haydn 200th anniversary of his death Felix Mendelssohn 200th anniversary of his birth Henry Purcell 350th anniversary of his birth Other composer anniversaries noted in the 2009 Proms included Louis Andriessen 70th birthday Harrison Birtwistle 75th birthday John Casken 60th birthday George Crumb 80th birthday Frederick Delius 75th anniversary of his death Edward Elgar 75th anniversary of his death Jonathan Harvey 70th birthday Gustav Holst 75th anniversary of his death Albert Ketelbey 50th anniversary of his death Bohuslav Martinu 50th anniversary of his death Peter Maxwell Davies 75th birthday Heitor Villa Lobos 50th anniversary of his death The humorist and music impresario Gerard Hoffnung was also remembered with the performance in the Last Night of Malcolm Arnold s A Grand Grand Overture which was commissioned for the first Hoffnung Music Festival 39 The 2009 Proms featured Bollywood music for the first time as part of a day long series of concerts and events also covering Indian classical music Performers in the day included Ram Narayan Rajan and Sajan Mishra and Shaan 49 Noted historical anniversaries covered in the 2009 Proms included the 75th anniversary of the MGM film musical and the 10th year of the West Eastern Divan Orchestra 50 51 52 There was a child oriented Prom to mark the Darwin bicentenary as well as a Free Family Prom including the Proms Family Orchestra 39 There was also a concert performance by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain which was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and received critical acclaim This concert included a version of Beethoven s Ode to Joy in which at least 1000 audience members participated with Ukuleles 53 2010 Edit BBC Proms logo used until 2021 season The 2010 Proms season ran from 16 July to 11 September The principal anniversary composers included Frederic Chopin 200th anniversary of his birth Gustav Mahler 150th anniversary of his birth Robert Schumann 200th anniversary of his birth Stephen Sondheim 80th birthday Arvo Part 75th birthday Rodgers and Hammerstein 50th anniversary of the death of Oscar Hammerstein II Other anniversaries of composers featured at the Proms included Thomas Arne 300th anniversary of his birth Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 300th anniversary of his birth Samuel Barber 100th anniversary of his birth Alban Berg 125th anniversary of his birth George Benjamin 50th birthday James Dillon 60th birthday Bayan Northcott 70th birthday Gunther Schuller 85th birthday Mark Anthony Turnage 50th birthday Hugo Wolf 150th anniversary of his birth In addition Hubert Parry and Alexander Scriabin received particular focus 54 One day was dedicated particularly to Sir Henry Wood including a recreation of the 1910 Last Night 55 For families the Doctor Who Prom first introduced in 2008 received new renditions hosted by the newest Doctor Matt Smith and his companions Amy Pond Karen Gillan and Rory Williams Arthur Darvill 56 57 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 58 2011 Edit The 2011 Proms season began on 15 July 2011 and ran until 10 September 2011 The principal anniversary composers included Percy Grainger 50th anniversary of his death Franz Liszt 200th anniversary of his birth 125th anniversary of his death Gustav Mahler 100th anniversary of his death Tomas Luis de Victoria 400th anniversary of his death Other anniversaries of composers featured at the Proms included Richard Rodney Bennett 75th birthday Marc Andre Dalbavie 50th birthday Marcel Dupre 125th anniversary of his birth Henri Dutilleux 95th birthday Sofia Gubaidulina 80th birthday Bernard Herrmann 100th anniversary of his birth Stan Kenton 100th anniversary of his birth Colin Matthews 65th birthday Steve Reich 75th birthday The music of Frank Bridge also received a particular non anniversary related focus Other notable performances included the first Proms performance of Havergal Brian s Symphony No 1 The Gothic which was also the 6th live performance ever 59 and subsequently released on a Hyperion commercial recording 60 The 2011 Proms season also featured new works by Sally Beamish Harrison Birtwistle Peter Maxwell Davies Pascal Dusapin Graham Fitkin Thomas Larcher Kevin Volans Judith Weir and Stevie Wishart Prom 62 featuring the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra on 1 September 2011 was taken off air by the BBC following vocal anti Israeli protests from some members of the audience This was the first time that the BBC had taken a Proms concert off air mid broadcast 61 62 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 No other Comedy Prom has taken place to date The children s prom of 2011 was based on the CBBC television series Horrible Histories and featured a number of songs from the show 2012 Edit The 2012 Proms was the 118th season began on 13 July 2012 and ran until 8 September 2012 Notable aspects of the season included the first Beethoven symphony cycle by a single orchestra at the Proms since 1942 with Daniel Barenboim conducting the West Eastern Divan Orchestra and various works and concerts that highlighted the 2012 London Olympic Games Composer anniversaries included John Adams 65th birthday John Cage centenary Hugh Wood 80th birthdayThe season also noted the 70th anniversary of the BBC programme Desert Island Discs 2013 Edit The 2013 season celebrated several composer anniversaries Benjamin Britten centenary Giuseppe Verdi bicentenary Richard Wagner bicentenaryThe season featured concert performances of seven of Wagner s thirteen operas including Der Ring des Nibelungen performed over the course of one week by the Staatskapelle Berlin conducted by Daniel Barenboim the first time the complete Ring cycle had been performed at the Proms in a single season 63 BBC Radio 3 also collaborated with BBC Radio 2 and Radio 6 In 2013 Marin Alsop became the first female conductor of the Last Night of the Proms 64 2014 Edit The 2014 season had a number of pieces in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I including the premier of the violin concerto 1914 by Gabriel Prokofiev and Requiem Fragments by John Tavener Also performed were War Elegy by Ivor Gurney and Benjamin Britten s War Requiem There were special proms for younger children The Cbeebies prom a staging of Kiss Me Kate and a concert inspired by the World War I era War Horse featuring puppets from the play The late night proms season included performances by the Pet Shop Boys and Paloma Faith Composers having special attention included Sir Harrison Birtwistle Sir Peter Maxwell Davies both celebrating their 80th birthdays in 2014 William Walton and Richard Strauss A panorama of the 2015 season of the Proms with the seats behind the orchestra half and half with choral members and audience 2015 Edit Themes for the 2015 season included works by Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius in commemoration of the 150th anniversaries of each composer The Late Night Proms included collaborations with BBC Asian Network Prom 8 Radio 1 Prom 16 featuring dance music hits from the past 20 years Radio 6 Music Prom 27 and Radio 1Xtra Prom 37 which featured grime artists Stormzy Wretch 32 Little Simz and others 2016 Edit This section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed December 2019 Learn how and when to remove this template message The 2016 Proms season featured a new series of Proms at concerts which included performances at venues in London besides the Royal Albert Hall and Cadogan Hall specifically The Chapel Old Royal Naval College Greenwich Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Shakespeare s Globe The Roundhouse Camden Bold Tendencies Multi Storey Car Park PeckhamThese concerts were offered in place of the previous Saturday Matinee concerts at Cadogan Hall 2016 marked David Pickard s first season as Director BBC Proms This marked the first time since the 1990s when the posts of Controller BBC Radio 3 and Director BBC Proms were not combined 2017 Edit The 2017 Proms season featured a number of composer anniversaries John Adams 70th birthday Philip Glass 80th birthday John Williams 85th birthdayThe season also continued the Proms at series with the following concerts Stage TheDock Hull the first Prom to be given outside of the London metropolitan area since 1930 Southwark Cathedral Bold Tendencies Multi Storey Car Park Peckham Wilton s Music Hall The Tanks at Tate ModernIn addition Xian Zhang became the first female conductor ever to conduct the annual Prom which includes the Symphony No 9 of Beethoven on 30 July 2017 65 The 2017 Proms season featured 7 female conductors 66 the greatest number of female conductors in a single Proms season to that point 2018 Edit The 2018 season ran from 13 July to 8 September and featured a number of composer anniversaries Leonard Bernstein 100th anniversary of his birth Lili Boulanger 100th anniversary of her death Claude Debussy 100th anniversary of his death Hubert Parry 100th anniversary of his deathWomen composers were also celebrated on the 100th anniversary of the extension of voting rights to some women in the UK The 22 composers featured included Clara Schumann Ethel Smyth Amy Beach Alma Mahler Florence Price and Thea Musgrave Prom 3 on 15 July marked the fortieth anniversary of the BBC Young Musician competition and featured performances from a number of the competition s previous and current winners and finalists 67 2019 Edit The 2019 season ran from 19 July to 14 September 68 2020 Edit The 2020 season marked 125 years since the first Proms season and was reimagined due to the COVID 19 pandemic running from 19 July to 12 September It featured a unique format to reflect the times with a compelling multi platform offer 69 2021 Edit The 2021 season ran from 30 July to 11 September This year marked 150 years of the Royal Albert Hall Composers commissioned for the season were James MacMillan Elizabeth Ogonek Augusta Read Thomas Britta Bystrom Shiva Feshareki Nico Muhly George Lewis George Benjamin Grace Evangeline Mason and Gity Razaz 70 2022 Edit The 2022 season ran from 15 July to 8 September This year marked the 100th anniversary of the BBC and for the first time the festival used the new BBC logo as part of the wider corporate rebrand on 20 October 2021 71 72 Due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II the 2022 season ended on 8 September as part of the BBC s policy of cancelling such shows for 12 days after the Queen died Last Night of the Proms Edit The Last Night of the Proms celebrates British tradition with patriotic music of the United Kingdom 73 74 Many people s perception of the Proms is based on the Last Night although this is very different from the other concerts It usually takes place on the second Saturday in September and is broadcast in the UK on BBC Radio 3 and on television on BBC Two first half and BBC One second half The concert is traditionally in a lighter winding down vein with popular classics followed by a second half of British patriotic pieces This sequence traditionally includes Edward Elgar s Pomp amp Circumstance March No 1 to part of which Land of Hope and Glory is sung and Henry Wood s Fantasia on British Sea Songs followed by Thomas Arne s Rule Britannia The concert concludes with Hubert Parry s Jerusalem and the British national anthem since 2010 in an arrangement by Benjamin Britten The repeat of the Elgar march at the Last Night can be traced to the spontaneous audience demand for a double encore after its premiere at a 1901 Proms concert 75 The closing sequence of the second half became fully established in 1954 during Sargent s tenure as chief conductor 76 The Prommers have made a tradition of singing Auld Lang Syne after the end of the concert but this was not included in the programme until 2015 However when James Loughran a Scot conducted the Last Night concert in the late 1970s and early 1980s he did include the piece within the programme Tickets are highly sought after Promming tickets are priced the same as for that season s concerts but seated tickets are more expensive To pre book a seat it is necessary to have bought tickets for at least five other concerts in the season and an advance booking for the Last Night must include those five concerts the seat for the Last Night cannot be a better one in terms of its pricing than those for the other concerts After the advance booking period there is no requirement to have booked for additional concerts but by then the Last Night is usually sold out although returns may be available For standing places a full season pass automatically includes admission to the Last Night day Prommers must present five ticket stubs from previous concerts to qualify for a standing Last Night ticket either in the Arena or Gallery prior to 2009 the requirement was for six other concerts In recent years clarify some Arena standing tickets have been available for purchase on the day with no requirement to have attended previous concerts These are sold on a first come first served basis to those prepared to queue 77 In the post war period with the growing popularity of the Last Night the only way to obtain tickets was through a postal ballot held well in advance An annual ballot now exists for the chance to purchase a maximum of two tickets from a special allocation of 100 stalls seats 77 Prommers with tickets are likely to queue up much earlier than usual many overnight and in past years some slept outside the hall for up to three weeks to guard their place although this is no longer permitted to ensure a good place to stand the resulting camaraderie adds to the atmosphere Some attend in fancy dress from dinner jackets to patriotic T shirts Many use the occasion for an exuberant display of Britishness Union Flags are waved by the Prommers especially during Rule Britannia Other national flags balloons and party poppers are all welcomed although John Drummond discouraged extraneous noise during his tenure as director Sir Henry Wood s bust is adorned with a laurel chaplet by representatives of the Promenaders who often wipe an imaginary bead of sweat from his forehead or make some similar gentle visual joke As with the rest of the season the cost of promming tickets standing tickets is just 6 Many consider these to be the best tickets due to the atmosphere of standing in the hall for up to three hours albeit with a twenty five minute interval Another tradition is that near the end of the concert the conductor makes a speech thanking the musicians and audiences mentioning the main themes of the season noting the cumulative donation collected for the Promenaders musical charities over the season and announcing the date of the First Night for the following year This tradition dates from 1941 when Sir Henry Wood gave the first such speech at the close of that season which was the first at the Royal Albert Hall when he thanked colleagues and sponsors Wood gave a similar speech at the 1942 Last Night and a pre recorded version was played at the 1943 Last Night During his tenure as conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent established the tone of making the Last Night speech more humorous Subsequent conductors have generally continued this although one exception was in 1997 when Sir Andrew Davis addressed the deaths of Diana Princess of Wales Mother Teresa and Sir Georg Solti in 1997 78 Leonard Slatkin chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 2000 to 2004 expressed a desire to tone down the nationalism of the Last Night and during the seasons from 2002 until 2007 Rule Britannia was only heard as part of Henry Wood s Fantasia on British Sea Songs another piece traditional to the Last Night rather than separately Slatkin an American and the first non Commonwealth citizen to lead the Last Night conducted his first in 2001 just days after the 9 11 attacks The atmosphere was more restrained and less festive than normal with a heavily revised programme where the finale of Beethoven s 9th Symphony replaced the Sea Songs and Samuel Barber s Adagio for Strings was performed in tribute to 9 11 victims 79 On the day of the 2005 Last Night the hall management received word of a bomb threat which led to a thorough search of the Albert Hall for 5 hours but the concert took place after a short delay This has led to increased security concerns given the stature of the Last Night in British culture which Jacqui Kelly of the Royal Albert Hall staff noted That was quite a nerve wracker our biggest event the one everybody knows the Albert Hall for and we were in real danger of losing it We re an iconic thing up there in the public eye so we have to expect that 80 2008 also contained some departures from the traditional programme Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 was moved to after the conductor s speech In addition most of Wood s Fantasia on British Sea Songs was replaced by Vaughan Williams s Sea Songs as a final tribute in his anniversary year However Wood s arrangements of naval bugle calls from the start of the Fantasia were retained and Sargent s arrangement of Rule Britannia returned with Bryn Terfel as soloist As on his 1994 Last Night appearance 81 he sang one verse in a Welsh translation with the chorus also translated into Welsh Additionally 2008 saw the inclusion of Scottish composer Anna Meredith to the programme for her Proms premiere froms which involved five different groups of musicians telecasting in from around Britain 82 2009 saw the continued absence of Wood s Sea Songs this time replaced by specially commissioned fanfares and extracts from Handel s Music for the Royal Fireworks 83 84 In 2009 for the first time the Last Night was shown live in several cinemas across Asia and in Canada and Australia 85 The 2014 Last Night saw soprano Elizabeth Watts wearing a dress by Vivienne Westwood which was auctioned in aid of Streetwise Opera The online auction ran from 8 September to 18 September 86 In 2016 anti Brexit protestors waved EU flags in addition to the usual Union Jack flags 87 The protests have continued in subsequent years 88 In 2020 the concert was performed to an empty hall due to the COVID 19 restrictions in place in the UK 89 In 2022 the concert was cancelled 48 hours before it was scheduled to happen following the death of Queen Elizabeth II this was the first Last Night cancellation since 1944 Dalia Stasevska had been selected to conduct Because of the cancellation of the Last Night in 2022 no date for the First Night of the Proms for 2023 has yet been announced Last Night conductors Edit The following table lists by year the conductors of the Last Night of the Proms In general since the tenure of Sargent the Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra has led this concert but guest conductors have directed the Last Night on several occasions Additionally the tradition was for a British conductor and if not the current serving Chief Conductor one who had an association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra or one of the other BBC orchestras Charles Mackerras was the first non British born conductor to lead the Last Night in 1980 Leonard Slatkin was the first American conductor of the Last Night in 2001 Jiri Belohlavek was the first non native English speaker to conduct the Last Night in 2007 Marin Alsop was the Last Night s first female conductor in 2013 90 Conductor Last Night s a 19th c 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020sHenry Wood b 1895 1938 1941 1943 a Sir Adrian Boult 1945 1946 c d Basil Cameron 1945 e Constant LambertSir Malcolm Sargent 1947 1966Colin Davis f 1967 1972Norman Del Mar g 1973 1975 1983 c Sir Charles Groves h 1974 1976 1978 c James Loughran g 1977 1979 1981 1982 1984 c Sir Charles Mackerras d 1980 c Vernon Handley 1985 c Raymond Leppard h 1986 c Mark Elder i 1987 c 2006 c Sir Andrew Davis j 1988 c 1990 k 1992 1994 1999 2000 c 2018 l Sir John Pritchard 1989Barry Wordsworth d 1993 c Leonard Slatkin 2001 2004Paul Daniel 2005 c Jiri Belohlavek 2007 2010 2012Sir Roger Norrington 2008 c David Robertson 2009 c m Edward Gardner 2011 c Marin Alsop 2013 2015 c Sakari Oramo 93 2014 2016 2017 2019 2021Dalia Stasevska 89 2020 c a b The 1939 season was curtailed by the outbreak of war and the 1940 season by German bombing meaning that there was no official Last Night Only the first few concerts were held in public in 1944 due to renewed bombing Wood died shortly before what should have been the end of the 1944 season 91 The 2022 season was curtailed by the death of Elizabeth II meaning that there was no official Last Night for that year Sir Henry from 1911 onwards a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Duties undertaken as Guest Conductor rather than as resident Chief Conductor BBC Symphony Orchestra a b c Former Principal Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra Constant Lambert Basil Cameron and Sir Adrian Boult jointly undertook proceedings upon the return in 1945 Later Sir Colin a b Former Chief Conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra a b Former Principal Conductor of the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra later the BBC Philharmonic Later Sir Mark Sir Andrew from 1999 onwards 92 replacing Mark Elder Davis is currently Conductor Laureate of the BBC Symphony Orchestra having served as Chief Conductor from 1989 2000 Robertson was Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC SO from 2005 to 2012Proms in the Park EditThe Royal Albert Hall could be filled many times over with people who would wish to attend To involve extra people and to cater for those who are not near London the Proms in the Park concerts were started in 1996 Initially there was one in Hyde Park adjacent to the Hall which was a simple video relay of the concert at the Royal Albert Hall As audiences grew Proms in the Park started to have musicians of their own on stage including the BBC Concert Orchestra 94 In the 2000s Proms in the Park started to be held in other locations across the UK usually with one of the BBC s orchestras playing In 2005 Belfast Glasgow Swansea and Manchester hosted a Last Night Prom in the Park broadcast live from each venue In 2007 Manchester s prom was replaced by one in Middlesbrough In 2008 the number reduced from five to four in Hyde Park Belfast Glasgow and Swansea 2009 returned to a total of five in Hyde Park Glasgow Swansea County Down and Salford Each location has its own live concert typically playing the national anthem of the host country before joining in a live big screen video link up with the Royal Albert Hall for the traditional finale In recent years Proms in the Park has become a series of established events in their own right with events in Hyde Park and in Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland managed by BBC Scotland BBC Cymru Wales and BBC Northern Ireland respectively in conjunction with the host local authority Each event has a presenting team a live orchestra a video link to the Last Night of the Proms in London and guest soloists and choirs Events tend to move to different cities to cover a wider geographical area within the host nations All of these events are incorporated within BBC One s live coverage of the Last Night of the Proms with live link ups to each of the venues However some more traditional elements of the Last Night of the Proms such as Jerusalem Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory have been removed on some years depending on local politics 95 96 As the popularity of Proms in the Park grew many communities across the UK decided to hold their own Proms in the Park events that were not affiliated with the BBC Year BBC Concert Orchestra BBC National Orchestraand Chorus of Wales BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Ulster Orchestra BBC Philharmonic P Halle Orchestra H Northern Sinfonia NS 1996 97 Hyde Park London19971998199920002001 Music Centre Gateshead 98 NS 2002 99 Belfast 100 2003 101 Singleton Park Swansea Pacific Quay Glasgow Donegal Square Belfast2004 102 Cathedral Gardens Manchester H 2005 Glasgow Green Belfast City Hall Heaton Park Manchester 103 P 20062007 104 Carrickfergus Castle Centre Square Middlesbrough NS 2008 105 Belfast City Hall 106 2009 107 Hillsborough Castle County Down 108 Buile Hill Park Salford 109 110 P 2010 Caird Hall Dundee 111 112 2011 Caerphilly Castle Castle Park Bangor 113 2012 114 Glasgow City Halls Titanic Slipways Belfast2013 Glasgow Green2014 Singleton Park Swansea2015 115 2016 Colwyn Bay2017 Singleton Park Swansea Castle Coole Enniskillen 116 2018 Colwyn Bay 117 Titanic Slipways Belfast2019 118 Singleton Park Swansea2020 No public events due to COVID 19 A small invited audience watched the Last Night from London 2021 No public events scheduled due to COVID 19 There was a live link up to Assembly Festival Garden Coventry 2022 No public events due to the death and state funeral of the Queen Elizabeth II and the cancellation of the Last Night of the Proms The first live relays outside of London were to Swansea and Birmingham in 1999 119 In 2001 there were also live link ups to Cornwall and Liverpool In 2011 Caerphilly s Proms in the Park was cancelled before the concert started due to heavy rainfall 120 Proms seasons EditNo Season Start date 1st night End date Last night Location No of Proms1 1895 Saturday 10 August Saturday 5 October Queen s Hall London 492 1896 Saturday 29 August Saturday 10 October Queen s Hall London 373 1897 Saturday 28 August Saturday 9 October Queen s Hall London 434 1898 Saturday 27 August Saturday 15 October Queen s Hall London 435 1899 Saturday 26 August Saturday 21 October Queen s Hall London 496 1900 Saturday 25 August Saturday 10 October Queen s Hall London 677 Summer 1901 Saturday 24 August Saturday 9 October Queen s Hall London 677a Winter 1901 02 Saturday 26 December Saturday 1 February Queen s Hall London 338 1902 Saturday 23 August Saturday 8 November Queen s Hall London 679 1903 Saturday 22 August Friday 23 October Queen s Hall London 5410 1904 Saturday 6 August Friday 21 October Queen s Hall London 6611 1905 Saturday 19 August Friday 27 October Queen s Hall London 6012 1906 Saturday 18 August Friday 26 October Queen s Hall London 6013 1907 Saturday 17 August Saturday 26 October Queen s Hall London 6114 1908 Saturday 15 August Saturday 24 October Queen s Hall London 6115 1909 Saturday 14 August Saturday 23 October Queen s Hall London 6116 1910 Saturday 13 August Saturday 22 October Queen s Hall London 6117 1911 Saturday 12 August Saturday 21 October Queen s Hall London 6118 1912 Saturday 17 August Saturday 26 October Queen s Hall London 6119 1913 Saturday 16 August Saturday 25 October Queen s Hall London 6120 1914 Saturday 15 August Saturday 24 October Queen s Hall London 6121 1915 Saturday 14 August Saturday 23 October Queen s Hall London 6122 1916 Saturday 26 August Saturday 21 October Queen s Hall London 4923 1917 Saturday 25 August Saturday 20 October Queen s Hall London 4924 1918 Saturday 11 August Saturday 19 October Queen s Hall London 6125 1919 Saturday 16 August Saturday 25 October Queen s Hall London 6126 1920 Saturday 14 August Saturday 23 October Queen s Hall London 6127 1921 Saturday 13 August Saturday 22 October Queen s Hall London 6128 1922 Saturday 12 August Saturday 21 October Queen s Hall London 6129 1923 Saturday 11 August Saturday 20 October Queen s Hall London 6130 1924 Saturday 9 August Saturday 18 October Queen s Hall London 6131 1925 Saturday 8 August Saturday 17 October Queen s Hall London 6132 1926 Saturday 14 August Saturday 16 October Queen s Hall London 5533 1927 Saturday 13 August Saturday 24 October Queen s Hall London 3734 1928 Saturday 11 August Saturday 6 October Queen s Hall London 4935 1929 Saturday 10 August Saturday 5 October Queen s Hall London 4936 1930 Northern Monday 26 May Saturday 21 June Free Trade Hall ManchesterPhilharmonic LiverpoolTown Hall Leeds 2436a 1930 London Saturday 9 August Saturday 4 October Queen s Hall London 4937 1931 Saturday 8 August Saturday 3 October Queen s Hall London 4838 Summer 1932 Saturday 6 August Saturday 1 October Queen s Hall London 4938a Winter 1932 33 Saturday 31 December Saturday 14 February Queen s Hall London 1339 1933 Saturday 12 August Saturday 7 October Queen s Hall London 4940 Summer 1934 Saturday 11 August Saturday 6 October Queen s Hall London 4940a Winter 1934 35 Monday 31 December Saturday 12 January Queen s Hall London 1241 Summer 1935 Saturday 10 August Saturday 5 October Queen s Hall London 4941a Winter 1935 36 Monday 30 December Saturday 11 January Queen s Hall London 1242 1936 Saturday 8 August Saturday 3 October Queen s Hall London 4943 1937 Saturday 7 August Saturday 2 October Queen s Hall London 4944 1938 Saturday 6 August Saturday 1 October Queen s Hall London 4945 1939 Saturday 12 August Friday 1 September Queen s Hall London 17 5 a 46 1940 Saturday 10 August Saturday 7 September Queen s Hall London 25 b 47 1941 Saturday 12 July Saturday 23 August Royal Albert Hall London 3748 1942 Saturday 27 June Saturday 22 August Royal Albert Hall London 4949 1943 Saturday 19 June Saturday 21 August Royal Albert Hall London 5550 1944 Saturday 10 June Thursday 29 June Royal Albert Hall London 17 c 51 1945 Saturday 21 July Saturday 15 September Royal Albert Hall London 4952 1946 Saturday 27 July Saturday 21 September Royal Albert Hall London 4952a Winter 1947 Monday 6 January Saturday 18 January Royal Albert Hall London 1253 Summer 1947 Saturday 19 July Saturday 13 September Royal Albert Hall London 4953a Winter 1948 Monday 5 January Saturday 17 January Royal Albert Hall London 1254 Summer 1948 Saturday 24 July Saturday 18 September Royal Albert Hall London 4954a Winter 1949 Monday 10 January Saturday 22 January Royal Albert Hall London 1255 Summer 1949 Saturday 23 July Saturday 17 September Royal Albert Hall London 4955a Winter 1950 Monday 9 January Saturday 21 January Royal Albert Hall London 1256 Summer 1950 Saturday 22 July Saturday 16 September Royal Albert Hall London 4956a Winter 1951 Monday 8 January Saturday 20 January Royal Albert Hall London 1257 Summer 1951 Saturday 28 July Saturday 22 September Royal Albert Hall London 4958 Winter 1952 Monday 7 January Saturday 19 January Royal Albert Hall London 1258a 1952 Saturday 26 July Saturday 20 September Royal Albert Hall London 4959 1953 Saturday 25 July Saturday 19 September Royal Albert Hall London 4960 1954 Saturday 24 July Saturday 18 September Royal Albert Hall London 4961 1955 Saturday 23 July Saturday 17 September Royal Albert Hall London 4962 1956 Saturday 21 July Saturday 15 September Royal Albert Hall London 4963 1957 Saturday 20 July Saturday 14 September Royal Albert Hall London 4964 1958 Saturday 26 July Saturday 20 September Royal Albert Hall London 4965 1959 Saturday 25 July Saturday 19 September Royal Albert Hall London 4966 1960 Saturday 23 July Saturday 17 September Royal Albert Hall London 4967 1961 Saturday 22 July Saturday 16 September Royal Albert Hall London 4968 1962 Saturday 21 July Saturday 15 September Royal Albert Hall London 4969 1963 Saturday 20 July Saturday 14 September Royal Albert Hall London 4970 1964 Saturday 25 July Saturday 19 September Royal Albert Hall London 4971 1965 Saturday 17 July Saturday 11 September Royal Albert Hall London 4972 1966 Saturday 23 July Saturday 17 September Royal Albert Hall London 5073 1967 Saturday 22 July Saturday 16 September Royal Albert Hall London 5174 1968 Friday 19 July Saturday 14 September Royal Albert Hall London 5275 1969 Friday 18 July Saturday 13 September Royal Albert Hall London 5276 1970 Friday 17 July Saturday 12 September Royal Albert Hall London 5377 1971 Friday 23 July Saturday 18 September Royal Albert Hall London 5478 1972 Friday 21 July Saturday 16 September Royal Albert Hall London 5778a Winter 1972 73 Friday 29 December Friday 5 January Royal Albert Hall London 879 1973 Friday 20 July Saturday 15 September Royal Albert Hall London 5580 1974 Friday 19 July Saturday 14 September Royal Albert Hall London 5581 1975 Friday 25 July Saturday 20 September Royal Albert Hall London 5782 1976 Friday 16 July Saturday 11 September Royal Albert Hall London 5683 1977 Friday 22 July Saturday 17 September Royal Albert Hall London 5584 1978 Friday 21 July Saturday 16 September Royal Albert Hall London 5585 1979 Friday 20 July Saturday 15 September Royal Albert Hall London 5486 1980 Friday 18 July Saturday 13 September Royal Albert Hall London 5787 1981 Friday 17 July Saturday 12 September Royal Albert Hall London 5688 1982 Friday 16 July Saturday 11 September Royal Albert Hall London 5789 1983 Friday 22 July Saturday 17 September Royal Albert Hall London 5790 1984 Friday 20 July Saturday 15 September Royal Albert Hall London 5991 1985 Friday 19 July Saturday 14 September Royal Albert Hall London 6092 1986 Friday 18 July Saturday 13 September Royal Albert Hall London 6093 1987 Friday 17 July Saturday 12 September Royal Albert Hall London 6694 1988 Friday 22 July Saturday 17 September Royal Albert Hall London 6995 1989 Friday 21 July Saturday 16 September Royal Albert Hall London 6896 1990 Friday 20 July Saturday 15 September Royal Albert Hall London 6697 1991 Friday 19 July Saturday 14 September Royal Albert Hall London 6798 1992 Friday 17 July Saturday 12 September Royal Albert Hall London 6699 1993 Friday 16 July Saturday 11 September Royal Albert Hall London 67100 1994 Friday 15 July Saturday 10 September Royal Albert Hall London 68101 1995 Friday 21 July Saturday 16 September Royal Albert Hall London 70102 1996 Friday 19 July Saturday 14 September Royal Albert Hall London 72103 1997 Friday 18 July Saturday 13 September Royal Albert Hall London 73104 1998 Friday 17 July Saturday 12 September Royal Albert Hall London 73105 1999 Friday 16 July Saturday 11 September Royal Albert Hall London 72106 2000 Friday 14 July Saturday 9 September Royal Albert Hall London 72107 2001 Friday 20 July Saturday 15 September Royal Albert Hall London 73108 2002 Friday 19 July Saturday 14 September Royal Albert Hall London 73109 2003 Friday 18 July Saturday 13 September Royal Albert Hall London 73110 2004 Friday 16 July Saturday 11 September Royal Albert Hall London 74111 2005 Friday 15 July Saturday 10 September Royal Albert Hall London 74112 2006 Friday 14 July Saturday 9 September Royal Albert Hall London 73113 2007 Friday 13 July Saturday 8 September Royal Albert Hall London 72114 2008 Friday 18 July Saturday 13 September Royal Albert Hall London 76115 2009 Friday 17 July Saturday 12 September Royal Albert Hall London 76116 2010 Friday 16 July Saturday 11 September Royal Albert Hall London 76117 2011 Friday 15 July Saturday 10 September Royal Albert Hall London 74118 2012 Friday 13 July Saturday 8 September Royal Albert Hall London 76119 2013 Friday 12 July Saturday 7 September Royal Albert Hall London 75120 2014 Friday 18 July Saturday 13 September Royal Albert Hall London 76121 2015 Friday 17 July Saturday 12 September Royal Albert Hall London 76122 2016 Friday 15 July Saturday 10 September Royal Albert Hall London 75123 2017 Friday 14 July Saturday 9 September Royal Albert Hall London 75124 2018 Friday 13 July Saturday 8 September Royal Albert Hall London 75125 2019 Friday 19 July Saturday 14 September Royal Albert Hall London 75126 2020 Friday 17 July Saturday 12 September Royal Albert Hall London 15 d 127 2021 Friday 30 July Saturday 11 September Royal Albert Hall London 61128 2022 Friday 15 July Thursday 8 September Royal Albert Hall London 69 e 129 2023 TBA Saturday 9 September Royal Albert Hall London TBD The second half of concert 18 and the remaining 31 concerts 19 49 of the 1939 season Saturday 2 September to Saturday 7 October were cancelled after the United Kingdom received the news of the outbreak of World War II Concerts 26 49 of the 1940 season Saturday 8 September to Saturday 5 October were cancelled due to intensified nightly air raids during World War II Concerts 18 55 Friday 30 June to Saturday 12 August of the 1944 season were cancelled due to V 1 flying bombs Doodle Bugs which had started to fall on London during World War II Due to the COVID 19 pandemic the first 60 concerts comprising the first six weeks of the season were cancelled after plans to hold the concerts without an audience became financially unfeasible During the first six weeks concerts from previous seasons of the BBC Proms were shown on BBC Television the final two weeks of the season were broadcast as scheduled live from London s Royal Albert Hall without an audience 121 The last three concerts including the Last Night were cancelled following the death of Queen Elizabeth II However on 8 September when the Philadelphia Orchestra was about to perform the 70th Prom before being cancelled out of respect for the Queen they played the national anthem and Nimrod from the Enigma Variations Proms Controllers EditWilliam Glock 1960 1973 Robert Ponsonby 1973 1985 John Drummond 1986 1995 Nicholas Kenyon 1996 2007 Roger Wright 2007 2014 Edward Blakeman interim Director 2014 2015 David Pickard 2015 present 37 See also Edit BBC portalBBC Radio 2 Electric Proms List of music festivals in the United KingdomReferences Edit The Proms A year of great events BBC StoryWorks webcache googleusercontent com Retrieved 18 November 2019 BBC Proms British Arts Festivals Association Retrieved 18 November 2019 2007 Last Night of the Proms speech Jiri Belohlavek 8 September 2007 Daily Kos 3 November 2007 Robert Elkin Queen s Hall 1893 1941 Rider amp Co London 1944 pp 25 6 Henry J Wood My Life of Music Victor Gollancz London First edition 1938 cheap edition 1946 1946 p 68 Wood 1946 p 68 Ivan Hewett 12 July 2007 The Proms and the Promenerders The Daily Telegraph London Retrieved 20 July 2008 dead link Peter Mullen 21 July 1995 Everyone knows Henry Wood set up the Proms But who remembers the man who hired him to do it The Independent London Archived from the original on 18 June 2022 Retrieved 19 April 2009 John Smith 18 April 2010 Encore for the Proms Manchester Evening News Retrieved 19 April 2009 Wood 1946 pp 68 84 Wood 1946 pp 69 71 73 Jacobs Arthur 2004 Wood Sir Henry Joseph 1869 1944 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online ed Oxford University Press doi 10 1093 ref odnb 37001 Subscription or UK public library membership required In a BBC interview recorded on 23 August 1941 introducing Sir Henry Wood W W Thompson the orchestral manager remarked There s only one man to speak for the Proms for he is the Proms That s Sir Henry Wood Would you live them over again Sir Henry Henry Wood Every day and every hour Thompson All those five thousand concerts Henry Wood Every one of them R Elkin Queen s Hall 1893 1941 Rider amp Co London 1944 Transcript pp 138 46 at p 143 For a list of Wood s principal novelties from 1895 to 1937 see Wood 1946 pp 353 372 Sir Henry Wood Collection Retrieved 13 September 2014 Symphony concerts PDF BBC Hand Book 1929 BBC 1928 pp 71 72 Elkin 1944 p 33 quoting from W Boosey Fifty Years of Music Ernest Benn Limited London 1931 at pp 177 78 The title Queen s Hall Orchestra2 was briefly revived in 1935 and 1936 for some recordings and a series of Sunday Concerts Thomas Russell Philharmonic Decade Hutchinson amp Co London New York Melbourne amp Sydney 1944 pp 97 8 Further details of Wood s sometimes difficult relations with Keith Douglas and with the BBC are given in Reginald Pound Sir Henry Wood A Biography Cassell London 1969 Russell Philharmonic Decade pp 97 8 112 In 1944 an article in The Times commented The Proms as we 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