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Current BBC Proms logo, used from the 2022 Proms season Outside the Royal Albert Hall during the BBC Proms season of 2008. The BBC Proms 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. Robert Newman founded The Proms in 1895.
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The BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, known as "The Proms", is a popular annual eight-week summer season of daily classical music concerts and other events at the Hall. In 1941, following the destruction of the Queen's Hall in an air raid , the Hall was chosen as the new venue for the Proms. [ 65 ]
This led to Wigglesworth presenting the premiere of Grace-Evangeline Mason's 'ABLAZE THE MOON' commissioned by BBC Radio 3 as part of the BBC Proms, performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in July 2023. [53] She was named in The Times 2020 Calendar of the Arts as the classical music 'Face To Watch.' [54]
Event 1: BBC One sees in the New Year with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, who performs and hosts a "New Year Disco". [1] Ross Kemp will reprise his role as EastEnders character Grant Mitchell to coincide with the programme's 40th anniversary. [2] Details of the most-watched television events of the decade so far are released.
Night of the Proms was created by two Belgian students, Jan Vereecke and Jan Van Esbroeck in 1985. The first NotP took place at the Antwerp Sportpaleis in Belgium on 19 October 1985. [3] Nowadays the event is organized by PSE Belgium (Promotion for Special Events), still managed by Vereecke and Van Esbroeck.
Louise Fryer and Rattus Rattus (the black rat puppet "host" of the TV series) presented the concert for BBC Radio 3.The featured performers were the six-member starring cast of Horrible Histories (Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond), supported by the Aurora Orchestra with Nicholas Collon conducting.
The BBC SSO appears annually in such festivals as the BBC Proms, the Edinburgh International Festival, the Cheltenham, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and the St Magnus Festival in Orkney. At the beginning of January 2006, the BBC SSO moved from Broadcasting House, Glasgow to the fully refurbished City Halls in Glasgow.