Last Night of the Proms

Renowned for being one of the most riotous nights of the entire Proms season, the Last Night of the Proms is the concert that everyone remembers as the flag waving, hat wearing promenaders gig.

Land of Hope and Glory
With spectacular pomp and ceremony, the Last Night of the Proms has a fabulous programme of very British sounding music. Gershwin, Handel and Haydn, along with Elgar are on the playlist for this year's end of Proms celebratory concert.

Orchestral music
The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus will be joined by the likes of Alison Balsom and Sarah Connolly as a fascinating night of music comes to the Royal Albert Hall. A great night of classically good classical music, the Last Night of the Proms is a chance to experience the brilliant atmosphere of the Royal Albert Hall at its most jubilant.

Proms in the Park
Missed out on tickets to see the the Last Night of the Proms live at the Royal Albert Hall? Proms in the Park will be screening all the action from the proms at Hyde Park, with Terry Wogan acting as host and live music from Barry Manilow and other special guests.

Last Night Of The Proms - Other Information

BBC Proms
http://www.bbc.co.uk/Proms
For general inquiries, contact Proms@bbc.co.uk; for ticket information email Promsbooking@royalalberthall.com.


BBC Prom Season Tickets
http://www.rahrequests.org/acatalog/Weekend_Passes.html


Battle Proms
http://www.battleproms.com/
Held at Burghley House, Hatfield House, Blenheim Palace, Highclere Castle, and Loseley Park, this series of Proms includes cavalry and infantry re-enactors of the Napoleonic Association, fireworks, and a rendition of Beethoven's Battle Symphony ("Wellington's Victory") with a full complement of 193 cannons.


Musical Associates
http://www.musicalassociates.co.uk/concert_dates.html
This organization produces proms at several locations, including Battle Abbey (Sussex), Tonbridge Castle (Kent), Castle Howard (near York), Harewood House (Yorkshire), Tatton Park (Cheshire), and more.


The Promenaders' (Unofficial) Home Page
http://www.promenaders.freeserve.co.uk/Door6.html
TDedicated to the Proms from the Promenaders' point of view. Find news and gossip from the Proms, reviews (better described as personal impressions), photos, a discussion forum, information about how to get to the Proms and what to do when you get there, and loads more.


Welsh Proms
http://www.welshproms.co.uk/

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What You Can Expect at The Proms Today

The Proms today contains over 70 main Prom concerts at the Albert Hall and additional Proms Chamber Music performances at the Victoria and Albert Museum. There is at least one Prom concert every evening, and a large number of these are preceded by a pre-Prom talk. Every Prom concert is broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and a number of Proms are now broadcast on the web and on BBC4 -- a digital television channel. The Last Night of the Proms is always shown on BBC television.

Each Prom term now has themes, and the works mirror one of the themes. The performance is still a mix of old and new and includes music, conductors, performers and orchestras from around the world. The themes for 2004 were "Back to Bohemia" and "East meets West and England in 1934." This year's proms include concerts marking 200 years since the Battle of Trafalgar and the death of Hans Christian Andersen and the 60th Anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Thus the themes for the 2005 season will be "Fairy Tales," "The Sea," and "Composer Anniversaries." Placido Domingo will make his Proms debut this year, performing in Die Walkure on 18 July. Ravi Shankar, 85,is also making his debut and will perform his sitar Concerto No 1 with daughter Anoushka in August. Also for the first time ever, 100 young musicians aged between 15 and 18 will join the BBC Symphony Orchestra on stage at the proms. Half-price tickets are being offered to all under-16's.
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Last Night Of The Proms Has Finish with its own traditonal way

The 115th BBC Proms period sketch to a close last night with the conventional last night spectacular of patriotic songs and flag-waving - and an curious work featuring Sir David Attenborough playing a floor polisher.
The expert natural history broadcaster said the prospect of performing for a TV and radio audience that could run into hundreds of millions around the world was more frightening than being charged by a rhinoceros.



Joining Sir David on stage at the Royal Albert Hall was comedian Rory Bremner on rifle, drum and bass musician Goldie on vacuum cleaner and journalist Martha Kearney, also on rifle.
Part of the piece involved Bremner 'shooting' Sir David, and he said he was very nervous about gunning down a national treasure.

During rehearsals with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir David said he was worried about his instrument's performance, though conductor David Robertson joked that he had been given the 'Stradivarius of floor polishers'.
Sir David came into view as a guest speaker at a Darwin-themed Prom earlier this summer, but said his presentation will be one of the most intimidating moments in his eminent career.
'This is tough. This is nerve-wracking,' he said.
'A charging rhinoceros is absolutely nothing compared to this.'

Last Night Of The Proms - 2008 season

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. Composers whose anniversaries were marked include:

• Ralph Vaughan Williams, 2008 being 50 years since his death
  
• Elliott Carter and Olivier Messiaen, each in his centenary year
  
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, to mark the centenary of his death
  
• Karlheinz Stockhausen, whose 80th birthday would have fallen during the season (he died on 5 December 2007).

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 céilidh in the Albert Hall itself.

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). The Doctor Who Prom included a mini-episode of Doctor Who, "Music of the Spheres".

Just over a month before the announcement, 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 Prime Minister even distancing himself from her remarks.

How to Get To Last Night Of The Proms - Royal Albert Hall

By Underground
South Kensington (District and Piccadilly lines)High Street Kensington (Circle and District lines)

By Bus
The following buses serve the Royal Albert Hall (via Kensington Gore, Queen's Gate, Palace Gate and/or Prince Consort Road): 9/ N9, 10/ N10, 49, 52/ N52, 70, 360 & 452 For 24-hour London travel information, call 020 7222 1234 or visit http://www.tfl.gov.uk/
Please note that all Proms venues lie inside the Congestion Charging Zone which operates 7.00am-6.00pm Monday - Friday.

Cyclists
There are bicycle racks near Door 1 and 11 of the Royal Albert Hall. (Neither the Hall nor the BBC can accept responsibility for items lost or stolen from these racks.) The Royal Albert Hall is unable to accept folding bicycles in the cloakrooms.

Last Night Of The Proms - Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall was constructed to accomplish the dream of Prince Albert (Queen Victoria's consort) of a 'Central Hall' that would be used to encourage sympathetic and admiration of the Arts and Sciences and would stand at the heart of the South Kensington estate, enclosed by museums and places of learning.

Located on the south side of Kensington Gardens in London and with a capacity of almost 6000, the world-famous Royal Albert Hall is where all the main orchestral Prom concerts take place

The Hall is a Grade I Listed building; and has been in nonstop use since it was opened in March 1871. It was always visualized as a multipurpose building to host not only concerts of music but exhibitions, public meetings, scientific conversations and award ceremonies. It is a registered charity held in trust for the nation but is financially self sufficient: it receives no funding from central or local government.

Last Night Of The Proms - Last Night Conductors

The following table lists by year the conductors of the Last Night of the Proms. Normally, the Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra leads this concert, but guest conductors have directed the Last Night on several occasions.

Conductor	Last Night(s) ...
	-1940s	1950s	1960s	1970s	1980s	1990s	2000s
Sir Henry Wood	1895–1939, 1941–19432
Sir Adrian Boult	19451 4
Basil Cameron
Constant Lambert
Sir Malcolm Sargent	1949–1966
Colin Davis			1967–1968	1970–1972
Norman Del Mar			1969	1973, 1975	1983
Sir Charles Groves				1974, 1976, 1978
James Loughran				1977, 1979	1981–1982, 1984
Sir Charles Mackerras					1980
Vernon Handley					1985
Raymond Leppard					1986
Sir Mark Elder					1987		2006
Sir Andrew Davis3					1988	1990–1992, 1994–2000
Sir John Pritchard					1989
Barry Wordsworth						1993
Leonard Slatkin							2001–2004
Paul Daniel							2005
Jiří Bělohlávek							2007
Sir Roger Norrington							20081
David Robertson							20091 5

• Note 1: Duties undertaken as Guest conductor, rather than as resident Chief Conductor, BBC Symphony Orchestra
• Note 2: The seasons of 1940 and 1944 were curtailed by German bombing, so there was no official "Last Night", Wood died shortly before what should have been the end of the 1944 season
• Note 3: Sir Andrew Davis from 1994 onwards
• Note 4: Constant Lambert, Basil Cameron and Sir Adrian Boult jointly undertook proceedings upon the return in 1945
• Note 5: Robertson has been Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC SO since 2005

Last Night Of The Proms Picture Gallery

Last Night Of The Proms 2009 Season

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)
• Bohuslav Martinů (50th anniversary of his death)
• Peter Maxwell Davies (75th birthday)
• Albert Ketèlbey (50th anniversary of his death)

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. Noted historical anniversaries covered in the 2009 Proms included the Darwin bicentenary at the child-oriented Prom, the 75th anniversary of the MGM film musical, and the 10th year of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

About The Last Night Of The Proms

The Proms, more generally called as The BBC Proms, or The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts to be had by the BBC, is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held yearly, mainly in the Royal Albert Hall in South Kensington, London. Founded in 1895, each season at present contains of over 70 concerts in the Albert Hall, a series of chamber concerts at Cadogan Hall, additional Proms in the Park events across the United Kingdom on the last night, and linked educational and children's events. In 2009 the total number of concerts will accomplish 100 for the first time. In the situation of classical music festivals, Jiří Bělohlávek has described The Proms as "the world's largest and most democratic musical festival".

Proms is short for promenade concert, a term which arose from the original practice of audience members promenading, or strolling, in some areas of the concert hall during the concert. Promming now 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 reserved seating. A number of Prommers are mainly eager in their attendance, and see it as a badge of respect to accomplish the "grand slam" of attending every concert of the season (a "little slam" being every concert at the Royal Albert Hall). In 1997, one programme in the BBC documentary series Modern Times covered this devoted following of fans.