Pensioners’ party in Kirton

Having a profit of more than £500 from its Last Night of the Proms concert,The event was organised by Kirton parish councillors and paid for by Kirton Brass Band.

Parish councillors made a cold salad and trifles and invited all the older generation from across the parish so they can enjoy.

Villager Carol Meeds made the meal which was followed by mince pies.Carol Meeds, who baked a mammoth batch of 150 of the festive treats because she wanted to give something back to the village.

Parish councillor Taina Welberry said: “They all had a glass of wine with their dinner and a box of chocolates to take home and a good time was had by all.

“It is real joint effort by the parish council and their families and without everyone’s efforts it wouldn’t have been possible.

Last Night Of The Proms: Jones Hit With Tax Demand

Grace Jones with Tax Demand hits in U.S. they are perform at Last Night Of The Proms with a matter after allegedly turning down because its more than $63,000 (£42,000).

Tax Demand sang The I Need a Man on 29 Oct 2010 lien by bosses at America's Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

New York City Register the papers filed and obtained by The Detroit News but Jones owes payments totalling $63,898 (£42,598).

Boy George performs at Night Of The Proms

After Boy George gave up the drugs, Boy loses immense amount of weight because he cut out sugary snacks along with illegal substances.

He was also jailed for 4 months for the assault and false imprisonment of a male escort at his London apartment.Club singer was also vowed to tackle his drink and drug demons.

He's adamant his new clean-living ways have helped him slim down.The star will celebrate three years sober in 2011.

He tells Britain's The Times, "Two years ago I was four times the size I am now and I didn't realise it. People would tell me I was fat, but I was in denial. I was happy!

"It was the drugs that did it: I could go for three days without eating, then I'd eat sugary foods late at night. For the past eight months I've been exercising a lot."

And Boy George insists his outlook on life has changed since he gave up drugs: "I'm more religious now. It's only in the last two or three years that I've got me back. I wouldn't call myself spiritual though. It's about how you lead your life and what you do."

Flags fly at last night of the Proms

At a Wigan church for a night of celebration TALL hats and the British flag was flying all over.

Bethel Independent Methodist Church, in Hindley was a venue where Last Night of The Proms take place and we saw a masterpiece of music and song was bursting through the walls.

The orchestral evening included sounds from the organ, violins and the sailor’s hornpipe, playing classics including Dambusters, Britannia, Land of Hope and Glory and Jerusalem.

There was also an Act of Remembrance for fallen soldiers.

Brian Mills, church member, said: “We had quite a good mixture and it was a roaring success – the church was absolutely full.

“We did a short remembrance service and some moving solos from Ron Machin and Maurice Monk.

“We had some amusing costumes and the hats just got bigger and bigger as the night went on.”

Members raised £1,250 for church funds.

Last Night Of The Proms Raises Vital Cash

Few days back when Last Night of The Proms organised by the Humberston Happening Committee to raise money for the Humberston Hydrotherapy Pool appeal held at Lucarly's.

Around 200 of music lovers were wearing the union flags and were in patriotic mood at a fundraising event to elevate maintain a hydrotherapy pool for children with special needs.

The third annual Last Night Of The Proms-Humberston style, at Lucarly's, in Wilton Road, raised funds for the pool at Humberston Park Special School.

As reported, the £750,000 pool opened in 2006 following 17-years of fundraising in the local area. It now costs up to £30,000 a year to heat, clean and maintain.

The proms event was organised by Humberston Happening, a community group formed in 1994 to support local good causes.

Get Ready For the Last Night Of The Proms Concert...!!

This time it is the chance of local music talent and passionate adult groups to perform there talent exclusively and put on a spectacular Last Night of the Proms concert.

FOUR Swindon Rotary clubs promises shows to be the best among all the shows held so far and recommend not to missed the event at any cost. They encouraging people to join them for a light-hearted version, complete with flag-waving and a patriotic finale.

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Last Night of the Proms 2010

One of the two star guests alongside the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Jiri Belohlavek was soprano Renee Fleming, and she provided the most ravishing vocal sounds I've heard in the Albert Hall these past two months.

Looking resplendent in a purple power frock designed by Vivienne Westwood, she nailed the emotional heart of Strauss's songs in a way that stilled the waving flags and brought total silence to the packed hall

Later she found a different tone, defiant and burnished, in an aria from Smetana's Dalibor, and yet another, a dreamy and innocent tone, for Dvorak'sSong to the Moon from Rusalka.

Finally - now with her outfit topped with a frivolous quasi-naval hat and waving a dinky Stars and Stripes - she took Arne's Rule Britannia and made it into a vehicle for some brilliant vocal display. She truly is a complete singer, and right now must surely be in a class of her own.

But there were other good things, before sentiment and fun took over.

Young Ukrainian violist Maxim Rysanov took Tchaikovsky's famous showpiece for the cello, theVariations on a Rococo Theme, and turned it into a showpiece for the viola.

Or rather, he tried to. But though his arrangement of Tchaikovsky's piece was expertly done, and brilliantly played, he seemed to pushing too hard against the viola's essentially introverted nature.

The meditative unfurling of the Prelude from Vaughan Williams' Suite for Viola and Small Orchestra came more naturally (what a rare beauty this piece is, and how welcome to make this kind of discovery at the Last Night).

The BBC Singers were on hand too, and they certainly shone in Jonathan Dove's brand-new A Song of Joys, a five-minute setting of Walt Whitman's eponymous poem in leaping sprung rhythms. They weren't so strong in Parry'sBlest Pair of Sirens, where the men in particular seemed sluggish and ill-focused.

This year, the genuinely musical part of the Last Night encroached further than usual into the second half.

The very last item, Benjamin Britten's curiously touching arrangement of the National Anthem, felt like a last assertion of music's rights, just when the Prommers and flagwavers thought they had the evening to themselves.

But they can't be denied for long, and with You'll Never Walk Alone from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, sentiment and fun took over.

We clapped along to Nic Raine's pert new arrangement of a Fisher's Hornpipe, and when Jerusalem and Land of Hope and Glory came along, the din and the blizzard of flag-waving and shrieking of balloons seemed even more tumultuous than ever.

But then, that's true every year.

Comes to Portsmouth at the Last Night Of The Prom

Last Night of the Proms live come to the big screen from the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday 11th September. Proms season features music by Wagner, Rodgers and Hammerstein, along with the Hornpipe from the Pirates of the Caribbean movie and the classics such as Rule, Britannia! Jerusalem and Land of Hope and Glory. In the park we will be showing highlights during the interval taking place across the UK. Now bring your flags and join the in the Last Night of the Proms ceremony.

On the night will be available lightly refreshments to buy. Bring something warm to wear, a chair for comfort, a picnic and most importantly - yourself. Limited seating will be provided on a first come first served basis.

By Portsmouth City Council Events Team being organized working with the BBC.

At the Octagon Last Night of the Proms

At the Octagon Threatre THE Last Night of the Proms will be created with the British Philharmonic Concert in Yeovil on September 3.
By the Yeovil Rotary Club the fundraising event is being organised to benefit the Yeovil Young Achievers Trust which aims to help local young people achieve higher standards in education, sport, the arts and citizenship.
The concert will feature soloists Jeni Bern and Andrew Forbes Lane and the orchestra will be led by conductor Fraser Goulding.
The concert tickets, which starts at 7.30pm on September 3, are priced £24.50.
From Yeovil Rotary Club they are available on 01460-240984, concert sponsors Old Mill on 01935-426181 and the Octagon Theatre on 01935-422884.

At the Warehouse Theatre Last Night Of The Proms

At the Warehouse Theatre the Last Night of the Proms, there will be presenting THE Rotary Club of Ilminster next month.
On Saturday the event will be held, September 11, at 7.30pm in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society with music from the Taunton Concert Band.
The audience will be invited to join in with the patriotic songs associated with Last Night with Tim Donaldson, of the South Somerset Choral Society, leading the singing.
And a Rotary spokesman said: “Flag waving will be encouraged!”
Admission cards are available from Gill Coles on 01460-57573 or e-mail gillcoles8@hotmail.com.
It is free admission arrangers are looking for a donation and have suggested a minimum price of £7.50.

Last Night Of The Proms BBC strike threat

Some of the BBC’s biggest TV events of the autumn - including the Last Night of the Proms could be taken off the air by strike action over proposed cuts to the corporation’s pension scheme, the broadcasting unions have threatened.

Gerry Morrissey, the general secretary of the broadcasting union Bectu, said that other targets for the strikes which could begin as early as September 9 - would be the party conferences and sporting events.
The co ordinated strike threat was issued yesterday from five unions with members at the BBC - Bectu, the National Union of Journalists, Unite, Equity and the Musicians’ Union. Their leaders had met at NUJ headquarters in London in advance of a meeting with BBC executives over pensions tomorrow.
Last month, the BBC started a 90 day consultation on proposals to make deep cuts to its “gold plated” defined benefit pension scheme, which could finally save it £50million a year in contributions.
One of the proposals is to cap pensionable earnings growth at 1 per cent a year, which is significantly less than the predicted rate of inflation. Because the cap applies to pensions based on years already worked as well as those from future earnings, the unions have called it a “pensions robbery”.
Mr Morrissey said: “Previously earned pensions are non negotiable. We are asking the BBC to withdraw this gun from our heads. Our members want us to make a stand long before these 90 days are up.”
Jeremy Dear, the general secretary of the NUJ, said: “While managers can look forward to gold plated pensions, thousands of BBC staff will be left significantly worse off in retirement. The BBC has broken its promises to staff and is undermining the value of people’s pensions. The BBC must withdraw these proposals or face the prospect of widespread strike action and industrial unrest over the coming months.”
The unions say that they have been mandated to ballot for strike action by union meetings over the last three weeks at BBC premises across the country. “I’ve never been at such an angry, crowded meeting as I was the other week,” said one BBC staffer. “This isn’t about wanting more money. It’s about being lied to by managers who are becoming less and less transparent with their intentions, while at the same time offering up ridiculous token gestures like the two months’ salary cut for execs.”
The unions have asked for “a guarantee by 21 July that the value of pensions already earned would be protected”. Mr Morrissey said that otherwise ballot papers could be sent out as early as August 5, with the ballot closing on September 1 and the first possible strike date being September 9.
The Last Night of the Proms is on September 11, by which time the Premiership football season will also be in full swing.
The last BBC strike was in 2005, when services which rely heavily on live programmes such as Radio 4 and BBC News 24 were severely disrupted.
A BBC management source said yesterday that 150 face to face meetings are being planned between management and staff about the pensions changes, and that there will also be a live phone in for staff to air their concerns.
“We know that staff have concerns about the proposed changes to the pension scheme, and we will listen and try to address these during the consultation period,” said a BBC spokesman.
The unions have also not accepted the BBC’s “final” pay offer, which calls for a pay freeze for staff earning £37,726 or more, and a flat rate pay rise of £475 a year for lower paid workers. Mr Morrissey said, “Pensions is the biggest issue, but the pay offer has been equally rejected”.

British Philharmonic Concert Orchestra With Last Night Of The Proms

THE Last Night of the Proms will be created at the Octagon Theatre in Yeovil on September 3 with the British Philharmonic Concert Orchestra.
The fundraising event is being organised by the Yeovil Rotary Club to benefit the Yeovil Young Achievers Trust which aims to help local young people achieve higher standards in education, sport, the arts and citizenship.
The concert will feature soloists Jeni Bern and Andrew Forbes Lane and the orchestra will be led by conductor Fraser Goulding.
Tickets for the concert, which starts at 7.30pm on September 3, are priced £24.50.
They are available from Yeovil Rotary Club on 01460-240984, concert sponsors Old Mill on 01935-426181 and the Octagon Theatre on 01935-422884.

Last Night Of The Proms joins Catrin Finch

Wales' contribution to the annual celebration of flag waving, Land Of Hope And Glory Britishness, Last Night Of The Proms will feature harpist Catrin Finch, alongside the Three Welsh Tenors.

While the Albert Hall rocks to the strains of Rule Britannia, Swansea's Singleton Park on Saturday 11 September will be being lulled by Finch and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales performing John Rutter's Suite Lyrique.
Finch said, "What a fantastic chance to perform in such a prestigious Welsh event and to be joining so many other talented performers to celebrate the world famous Last Night of the Proms."
"It will be a thrilling and moving experience to perform at this live outdoor event. Following the tour to Amsterdam with BBC National Orchestra of Wales this August, I am delighted to be joining forces with them once again in Swansea at Proms in the Park."
The evening will also feature the newly formed Three Welsh Tenors Rhys Meirion, Aled Hall and Alun Rhys Jenkins. They will perform the aria Nessun Dorma.
Local mixed choir Swansea Bach Choir will perform the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Nabucco by the Italian Romantic composer Verdi.
The event will be presented by singer and BBC Radio Wales presenter Aled Jones and conducted by Grant Llewellyn, a regular with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
Part of the evening will be an attempt to form the largest ever operatic chorus, with the crowd, to sing the Bridal Chorus from Wagner's Lohengrin and the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic You'll Never Walk Alone.

In Yeovil Rotary's Last Night of the Proms

THE Rotary Club of Yeovil is hoping to fill all 600 seats of the town’s Octagon Theatre for a Last Night of the Proms Concert on September 3.
The British Philharmonic Concert Orchestra the concert will be performed and is to raise money for the Yeovil Young Achievers Trust.
The trust aims to help young people from the area achieve higher standards in education, sport, the arts and citizenship.

The concert starts at 7.45pm and tickets, costing £24.50, are available on 01460-240984, sponsors Old Mill on 01935-426181, or the Octagon on 01935-422884.

At the Last Night of the Proms Local singers’ opportunity to join Lesley Garrett

CALLING all singers from Perth and Kinross!
BBC Scotland is giving some 200 aspiring singers the opportunity to appear on stage with opera diva Lesley Garrett as part of the celebrations of the Last Night of the Proms in Dundee.
The particularly created Dundee Proms Chorus will be one of the highlights of the event in the Caird Hall on September 11, alongside Lesley Garret and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Broadcast live on TV and recorded for BBC Radio, this all new home grown choir will perform songs from some classic musicals and showpieces from some of the great operas and will lead the audience in a link nup to the Royal Albert Hall live on BBC 1, and other venues across the UK.
For those who would like to be part of the Dundee Proms Chorus, BBC Scotland is running a series of fun workshops, open to all aspiring singers over the age of 16.
Led by choir trainer Anna Flannagan, there will be six rehearsal sessions leading up to the big night, as well as a full dress rehearsal with the orchestra and company.
No previous experience of singing is required and all the songs will be taught by ear for those who can’t read music. All interested applicants should contact dundeepromschorus@bbc.co.uk or write to Proms Chorus Administrator, Zone 3.08, BBC Scotland, 40 Pacific Quay, Glasgow, G51 1DA. Applications must be received before Friday, July 30.
This is the first time that the Proms have visited Dundee, bringing some of the magic associated with the Last Night, but with a distinctly Scottish flavour. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra provides the musical backbone for the night, providing accompaniment to one of Britain’s most popular classical singers, soprano Lesley Garrett, conducted by Scottish conductor Garry Walker.
Tickets for the event are now available, and to bring the real bohemian spirit of the Proms to Dundee, there will be a choice of standing ‘promenade’ tickets in the stalls area with a limited number of seated tickets in the balcony.

Get your flags ready for a night at the proms

Rule Britannia, 1812 and other stirring favourites will chime out at Diss Park tomorrow evening for Diss’ very own night at the proms.

Proms In The Park, organised by Diss and District Rotary Club is a free evening of music that has been a tradition in the town for many years, offering families a fun and relaxed night out.

The evening starts at 6pm with the first music coming from the Norfolk Fellowship Brass, a band which is full of highly skilled retired musicians of the Salvation Army.

The band, which formed in 2002, was originally set up to have fun and encourage fellowship, but the quality of their music has lead to them being in demand throughout the region.

Then, as has been the tradition since the resurrection of Diss Carnival in 2008, the 2010 Carnival Queen, Annabel Oakes, will be crowned at about 7.30pm for her big day the following day.

The South Norfolk Youth Symphonic Band (SNYSB) then take to the stage to begin with a performance of songs from the stage and big screen.

They then end the night with a typically stirring performance of proms favourites.

SNYSB’s musical director Mike Booty said; “For the last five years we’ve done this Proms In The Park.

“It is a free evening and a good night out - if it doesn’t rain like it did last year!

“But even then the audience showed true British grit and stuck with it.”

The audience often bring picnics and drinks, with champagne and sandwiches on the menu for many in the past.

And for those who come empty handed, there will be a bar and a barbecue available.

Mr Booty said his 60-strong band has members aged eight up to their early 20s and with the group playing upwards of 30 concerts per year, is well drilled when it comes to live performance.

“As well as the usual Union Flags, I am expecting a lot of St George flags because of the World Cup.”

For anyone who is struggling to remember the words for the stirring proms favourites that bring the evening to a close, they are all printed in the programme.

During the interval a prize draw takes place with top prizes including a 32-inch high definition television and a microwave.

Money raised from programmes and the draw will go to Diss Rotary Club charities.

The event, sponsored by the Diss branch of Bennetts, is due to finish at about 9.30pm.

Diss Carnival takes place on Sunday starting at 12.30pm with morris dancing in Market Place.

The Last Night of the Proms Tickets are available online on GigSport.

Last Night Of The Proms : Wave your flag on Proms night

EAST Grinstead will play host to its very own last night of the Proms soon.

Chequer Mead will become the Land Of Hope And Glory on Saturday, June 26, when the massed voices of East Grinstead Choral Society combine with a fantastic soprano soloist and the angelic choristers of St Peter's School for the rousing show.

Flag-waving and enthusiastic audience participation is encouraged in an exciting programme that also includes such stirring anthems as Rule Britannia and Jerusalem, and Chilcott's Little Jazz Mass.

The show starts at 7.30pm.

The Last Night At The Proms Tickets are available online on GigSport.com or call 0844 477 9950.

Cash shortage hits Glasgow city festivals

Two of Glasgow's main summer events will not take place this year due to a shortage of funding.

The BBC Proms in the Park - scheduled for September in Glasgow Green - will not go ahead in the city after problems in obtaining sponsorship.

BBC Scotland understands organisers are in discussions to take the event to an indoor venue in Dundee.

It follows news last month that the annual River Festival would not go ahead due to "budget constraints".

BBC Proms in the Park events have been sponsored in recent years by National Savings and Investments.

That deal has ended, however, meaning organisers of events outside London - in Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast - are having to rework plans.

A spokesman for BBC Scotland said: "We've decided to hold this year's Last Night of the Proms concert at a different venue which we'll be announcing shortly."

A spokesman for Glasgow City Council said the authority would be "concerned" if the event was lost.

He said: "We have provided substantial financial and logistical support since BBC Proms in the Park first came to the city, helping to ensure that the event was free to the people of Glasgow.

"Clearly, we would be disappointed if this important fixture in Glasgow's cultural calendar is to be lost to us this year."

The decision not to go ahead with this year's River Festival was confirmed last month by Glasgow City Marketing Bureau.

Chief executive Scott Taylor said the budget would be rolled over to 2011 to coincide with the launch of the new Riverside Museum which will house the city's transport collection.

"All of our partners have had to take a tough decision regarding the River Festival but it makes absolute sense to combine our resources and budgets to ensure the opening of the Riverside Museum is an outstanding success for Glasgow and Scotland," he said.

Last Night of the Proms at Selby Abbey

BEAUTIFUL voices and sweet music will raise Selby Abbey roof when the district council chairman's Proms concert is held later this month.

Coun Ian Chilvers will welcome the Sherburn Sinfionetta and York Philharmonic Male Voice Choir to entertain the abbey audience on March 20 from 6.30pm.Ian (pictured) said: "Money will be raised for charity and the audience will be able to join in singing Rule Britannia and Jerusalem, among others."This is always a well-attended and exciting concert, and I encourage everyone to come along."

The chairman will hold a concert at the abbey on May 8 to raise funds for Help for Heroes

Last Night of the Proms goes global

The climax of this year’s event on 12 September will be broadcast to screens in 15 countries, including Japan, Australia, Germany and South Africa.
BBC Worldwide’s Music arm secured the international deals, which will feed the concert via

satellite in digital surround sound.

The finale, famous for flag-waving renditions of patriotic anthems Land of Hope and Glory and Rule, Britannia!, is already shown on large outdoor screens around the UK.

The 72nd Prom will be broadcast across BBC Two, BBC HD and BBC Radio 3.