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.

For tickets and more details you can visit Last Night Of the Proms....

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”.