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Loading player… Last.fm concert page for Night of the Proms 2008 at Ahoy (Rotterdam) on Nov. 24, 2008. Another musical summer at an end!

As for the rest of it, you know the drill: the arena bobbing up and down to Vaughan's Sea Songs; the panto excerpt from Falstaff; the Guardian reader's mild anxiety at the thought of thousands of people singing the lines, "Wider still and wider/ shall thy bounds be set" in these troubled times. Sir Mark Elder, music director of the Hallé Orchestra who conducted the last night of the Proms in 1987 and 2006, agreed.

Featuring The idea seems to be to promote the Union: Songs from the British Isles runs the legend across the Union flags on sale outside the Royal Albert Hall; on the back is a picture of Bryn Terfel, who comes on stage in the second half wearing a suit made out of the Welsh flag. Last Night Proms 2008 - Folk Song Medley Part1 by RupertJones. Discuss the gig, get concert tickets, see who's attending, find similar events.

Proms 2008. BBC ONE joins the live celebrations for the climax of the Last Night of the Proms on Saturday 13 September.

For the first time BBC TWO has a regular primetime weekly presence at the BBC Proms throughout the season, providing Proms broadcasts on Saturday nights, adding to BBC TWO’s coverage of the First Night on Friday 18 July and the Last Night.

8:14. On display, as well as the Union flags and their constituent elements, are American, Canadian, Swedish, German, French, Maltese, and other unidentified flags: bring a flag and wave it, is the order of the day.The programming contains its tacit acknowledgement that, in a sense, the last proper musical night of the Proms was the night before: Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, although a wonderful work in its own right, is a sort of run-through of ideas that were to be put into the Ninth Symphony; and the new work commissioned for the evening, Anna Meredith's "froms" (sic) sounds, in its John Adams-ish way, like Rule Britannia played backwards. Rule Britannia - Last Night of the Proms 2008 by RupertJones. Land of Hope and Glory - Last Night of the Proms 08 by RupertJones. A new version of Last.fm is available, to keep everything running smoothly, please © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. 9:05. We were wrong to suggest in a review that Vaughan Williams' Sea Songs are usually played at the Last Night of the Proms. It is a brave and foolish killjoy who meddles with the Last Night, and Roger Wright, whose handling of the concerts this year has been exemplary (audiences are apparently up this year, which has to be quite an achievement considering they were already about as popular as it is possible for a series of classical music concerts to be) has wisely allowed the audience to let themselves go in the traditional manner.Popularity, and populism, is the keynote of the Proms.

The last night of a season of 164 events spanning an eight-week period, or the Last Night, a concert in celebration of the 2008 series. Let us know what you think of the Last.fm website. 5:35. This article was amended on Monday September 22 2008. Last Night of the Proms 2008 - where were the Sea Songs? The first female conductor of the Last Night of the Proms says prejudice against women survives in surprising quarters Marin Alsop, who will on Saturday night be the first female conductor to tackle the Last Night of the Proms in its 118-year history, has suggested society is still uncomfortable seeing women in authority roles such as hers.

This article traces the history of the ‘Last Night of the Proms’, from the foundation of the Promenade Concerts in 1895, through the troubled early decades of the twentieth century and the subsequent commitment of the B.B.C., to its current iconic status. Jerusalem & GSTQ - Last Night of the Proms 08 by RupertJones. But that is tough.

I heard Vaugh-Williams' Sea Songs but was expecting Sir Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs as it's been in the programme for as long as I can remember - but they didn't play it! That is their point. 'Roger is a wonderful musician, but he is obsessed,' he said. Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform.

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