Last Night of the Proms: January 2010

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Proms in 2007 season

The 2007 season ran from 13 July–8 September 2007, with the first concert beginning with Walton's Portsmouth Point and included Elgar's Cello Concerto performed by Paul Watkins and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Following the previous year's Voice day, brass instruments were specially featured with two concerts on 28 July 2007. Early press coverage focused heavily on the fact that musical theatre star Michael Ball would be the central performer in a concert on 27 August and a concert of British film music on 14 July. This led to media accusations of "dumbing down", despite Nicholas Kenyon's defence of the programme. Anniversaries marked in this Proms season included the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Edward Elgar, the 100th anniversary of the death of Edvard Grieg and the 50th anniversary of the death of Jean Sibelius as well as marking 80 years since the first BBC sponsorship of the Proms. The series also included an additional series of four Saturday matinee concerts at Cadogan Hall.

The 2007 season was Nicholas Kenyon's last season as controller of the BBC Proms, before he became Managing Director at the Barbican Centre from October 2007. Roger Wright became controller of the Proms in October 2007, whilst retaining responsibility for BBC Radio 3 and taking up a broader role controlling the BBC's classical music output across all media.

what the papers said about the proms in 2007, here are the comments from a famous paper guardian

"When Campra is in austere mood, his harmonies and plaintive scoring, as in the oboe accompaniment to the counter-tenor in the Gradual, have affecting gravity. Anders Dahlin and Nicholas Mulroy sang their solos with great beauty."

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Roger Norrington condutor 08

Sir Roger Arthur Carver Norrington, CBE (born 16 March 1934) is a British conductor. He is the son of Sir Arthur Norrington and the brother of Humphrey Thomas Norrington.

Norrington studied at the Dragon School, Westminster School, Clare College, Cambridge and the Royal College of Music under Adrian Boult among others.

Career Path:

Norrington worked as a tenor through the 1960s, and in 1962 founded the Schütz Choir of London. From 1969 to 1984, he was music director of Kent Opera. In 1978 he founded the London Classical Players (led by baroque violinist John Holloway) and remained their musical director until 1997. From 1985-1989 he was Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Sinfonietta. From 1990 to 1994, he was music director of the Orchestra of St. Luke's. In 1998, he became principal conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra.

He became Artistic Advisor of the Handel and Haydn Society in 2006.Norrington is best known for performances of Baroque, Classical and Romantic music using period instruments and period style. He is a member of the historically informed performance movement.

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Night of the Proms

Most people's perception of the Proms is taken from the Last Night, although this concert is very different from the others. It usually takes place on the second Saturday in September, and is broadcast in the UK on BBC2 (first half) and BBC1 (second half).

The concert is traditionally in a lighter, 'winding-down' vein, with popular classics being followed by a series of British patriotic pieces in the second half of the concert. This sequence traditionally begins with Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 (Land of Hope and Glory), and continues with Sir Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs, which culminates in Thomas Arne’s Rule, Britannia!. However, the Fantasia has not featured since 2007, though Rule, Britannia! has retained its place in the programme in its own right.

Another tradition of the Last Night is that near the end, the conductor makes a speech thanking the musicians and audiences, mentioning the main themes covered through the season, noting the cumulative season's donations collected by the prommers for charity raised over the season, and announcing the date of the First Night of the Proms for the next season.

The highlight of the Proms season is The Last Night of the Proms. This is an amazing, bizarre, uniquely British event. It is also incredibly popular and tickets for the Last Night are invariably the first to be sold out when tickets go on sale in mid May.

To buy a seat in advance it is necessary to have bought tickets for at least five other proms in the season to have a chance of getting a Last Night ticket, and either an advance booking must include those five concerts, plus an application for a Last Night ticket, or the ticket stubs must be presented at the box office when purchasing a Last Night ticket for that season; tickets can only be purchased in an equivalent (or lower) price band to that for the previous tickets. Once the advance booking period ends, there is no requirement to have booked for additional concerts, but the concert is generally sold out by this time, though returns may be available.

For standing places, full season tickets automatically include last night admission, half-season ticket holders have access to a special distribution of tickets, but must purchase their Last Night ticket in addition to the cost of the season ticket; day Prommers also have to present five ticket stubs at the box office. Some standing tickets are sold on the day, just as for other concerts during the season. Prommers with tickets are likely to queue up much earlier than usual (many overnight, and in past years, some slept outside the hall up to three weeks to guard their place in the queue) in order to ensure a good place to stand in the hall. The resulting camaraderie adds to the atmosphere.

Karlheinz Stockhausen 08

Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German,widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music". He is known for his ground-breaking work in electronic music, aleatory in serial composition.

He was educated at the Hochschule and the University of Cologne, and later studied with Olivier Messiaen in Paris, and with Werner Meyer-Eppler at the University of Bonn.

One of the leading figures of the Darmstadt School, his compositions and theories were and remain widely influential, not only on composers of art music, but also on jazz and popular-music artists.

Early life:

Stockhausen was born in the Burg Mödrath, the so-called castle of the village of Mödrath, which served at the time as the maternity home of the Bergheim Kreis. His father was a schoolteacher, and his mother was the daughter of a prosperous family of farmers in Neurath in the Cologne Bight. She played the piano and accompanied her own singing but, after three pregnancies in as many years, experienced a mental breakdown and was institutionalized in December 1932, followed a few months later by the death of her younger son, Hermann.

From the age of seven, Stockhausen grew up in Altenberg, where he received his first piano lessons from the Protestant organist of the Altenberg Cathedral, Franz-Josef Kloth. His father, Simon Stockhausen, remarried in 1938 and with his new wife, Luzia, had two daughters. Because his relationship with his new stepmother was less than happy, in January 1942 Karlheinz became a boarder at the teachers' training college in Xanten, where he continued his piano training and also studied oboe and violin. According to one source, as a young teenager he worked as a cobbler .

In 1941 or 1942, he learned that his mother had died, ostensibly from leukemia, although everyone at the same hospital had supposedly died of the same disease. It was generally understood that she had been a victim of the Nazi policy of killing "useless eaters".

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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 08

Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five. He was noted for folk and fairy-tale subjects as well as his skill in orchestration. His best-known orchestral compositions—Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade—are considered staples of the classical music repertoire, along with suites and excerpts from some of his 15 operas.

For much of his life, Rimsky-Korsakov combined his compositional and educational careers with one in the Russian military—at first as an officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, then in the civilian rank of Inspector of Naval Bands. Rimsky-Korsakov wrote in his autobiography that he developed a passion for the ocean in childhood from reading books and hearing of his older brother's exploits in the navy.

Early Life:

Rimsky-Korsakov was born at Tikhvin, 200 kilometres (120 mi) east of Saint Petersburg, into an aristocratic family with a long line of military and naval service. He later recalled that both parents were slightly musical in nature; his mother played some piano, and his father was able to play a few songs on piano by ear. It is said that Rimsky-Korsakov inherited his mother’s tendency to play all music too slowly.He showed musical ability early; beginning at six, he took piano lessons from various local teachers and showed a talent for aural skills.[4] However, his initial music lessons were completed with questionable enthusiasm, partly because of lack of interest but also, he later wrote, because he played "badly, carelessly, and was poor at keeping time".

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Elliott Carter:

Elliott Cook Carter, Jr. (born December 11, 1908) is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer born and living in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s, and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music. His compositions, which have been performed all over the world, include orchestral and chamber music as well as solo instrumental and vocal works.

Early life:

Carter's father, Elliott Carter, Sr. was a businessman and his mother was the former Florence Chambers. The family was well-to-do. As a teenager he developed an interest in music and was encouraged in this regard by the composer Charles Ives (who sold insurance to his family). In 1924 a "galvanized" 15-year-old Carter was in the audience when Pierre Monteux conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the New York première of The Rite of Spring, according to a 2008 report. Carter was again in attendance (see below) at Carnegie Hall, on the occasion of his 100th birthday in 2008, when the orchestra, now under the baton of James Levine, again performed the Stravinsky piece as part of its tribute to Carter. Although Carter majored in English at Harvard College, he also studied music there and at the nearby Longy School of Music.

Olivier Messiaen:

Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. He entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 11 and numbered Paul Dukas, Maurice Emmanuel, Charles-Marie Widor and Marcel Dupré among his teachers.
He was appointed organist at the church of La Trinité in Paris in 1931, a post he held until his death. On the fall of France in 1940 Messiaen was made a prisoner of war, and while incarcerated he composed his Quatuor pour la fin du temps ("Quartet for the end of time") for the four available instruments, piano, violin, cello, and clarinet. The piece was first performed by Messiaen and fellow prisoners for an audience of inmates and prison guards. Messiaen was appointed professor of harmony soon after his release in 1941, and professor of composition in 1966 at the Paris Conservatoire, positions he held until his retirement in 1978. His many distinguished pupils included Pierre Boulez and Yvonne Loriod (who later became Messiaen's second wife).
Early life:
He was the elder of two sons of Cécile Sauvage, a poet, and Pierre Messiaen, a teacher of English who translated the plays of William Shakespeare into French.
Messiaen's mother published a sequence of poems, "The Budding Soul", the last chapter of "As the Earth Turns", which address her unborn son. Messiaen later said this sequence of poems influenced him deeply, and he cited it as prophetic of his future artistic career.
On the outbreak of World War I in 1914 Pierre Messiaen became a soldier, and their mother took the two boys to live with her brother in Grenoble.
Here Messiaen became fascinated with drama, reciting Shakespeare to his brother with the help of a home-made toy theatre with translucent backdrops made from old Cellophane wrappers.At this time he also adopted the Roman Catholic faith. Later, Messiaen felt most at home in the Alps of the Dauphiné, where he had a house built south of Grenoble, and he composed most of his music there.
He commenced piano lessons after having already taught himself to play. His interest embraced the recent music of French composers Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, and he asked for opera vocal scores for Christmas presents. During this period he started to compose. In 1918 his father returned from the war, and the family moved to Nantes. He continued music lessons; one of his teachers, Jehan de Gibon, gave him a score of Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande, which Messiaen described as "a thunderbolt" and "probably the most decisive influence on me". The following year Pierre Messiaen gained a teaching post in Paris, and the family moved there. Messiaen entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1919, aged 11.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams 08

Ralph Vaughan Williams (12 October 1872 – 26 August 1958) was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song; this also influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, which began in 1904, many folk song arrangements being set as hymn tunes, in addition to several original compositions.

Early years of life:

Ralph Vaughan Williams was born on 12 October 1872 in Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, where his father, the Rev. Arthur Vaughan Williams, was vicar. Following his father's death in 1875 he was taken by his mother, Margaret Susan Wedgwood (1843–1937), the great-granddaughter of the potter Josiah Wedgwood, to live with her family at Leith Hill Place, the Wedgwood family home in the North Downs. He was also related to the Darwins, Charles Darwin being a great-uncle. Though born into the privileged intellectual upper middle class, Vaughan Williams never took it for granted and worked all his life for the democratic and egalitarian ideals in which he believed.

As a student he had studied piano, "which I never could play, and the violin, which was my musical salvation." After Charterhouse School he attended the Royal College of Music (RCM) under Charles Villiers Stanford. He read history and music at Trinity College, Cambridge, where his friends and contemporaries included the philosophers G. E. Moore and Bertrand Russell. He then returned to the RCM and studied composition with Hubert Parry, who became a friend. One of his fellow pupils at the RCM was Leopold Stokowski and during 1896 they both studied organ under Sir Walter Parratt. Stokowski later went on to perform six of Vaughan Williams's symphonies for American audiences, making the first recording of the Sixth Symphony in 1949 with the New York Philharmonic, and giving the U.S. premiere of the Ninth Symphony in Carnegie Hall in 1958.

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Proms in 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 which was a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Barking since 1994. She was the first Minister for Children in 2001 and is currently Minister of State for Culture and Tourism at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. 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.

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Monday, January 25, 2010

Last Night Conductors: David Robertson 2009

David Robertson (born 19 July 1958) is an American conductor. He is currently the music director of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.Robertson was born and raised in Malibu, California, and grew up in a music-loving family. His father was a research scientist at Hughes Laboratory and his mother studied literature, but later had a career as a caterer. In grade school, he played French horn and violin, and first conducted at age 12.

Other conducting work:

In February 2005, Robertson was named the Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO) and assumed that post later in the year, in parallel with the beginning of his St. Louis tenure. His Principal Guest Conductor ship with the BBC Symphony Orchestra has since been extended through 2011.

On 12 September 2009, Roberson became the second American conductor and the first standing BBC SO principal guest conductor to conduct the Last Night of the Proms.

In addition to the New York Philharmonic, Robertson continues to be a regular guest conductor with other major American orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the San Francisco Symphony. In particular, Anthony Tommasini of the New York Times lauded Robertson's concerts with the New York Philharmonic. He served as Festival Director for the Los Angeles Philharmonic's January 2008 Concrete Frequency Festival, as well as Music Director of the 2008 Ojai Music Festival in Ojai, California.

As well as his work in contemporary and symphonic music, Robertson is also much admired and sought-after as a conductor of opera, opening the Rossini Festival in the composer's hometown of Pesaro, Italy in the summer of 1994. In 1996, he conducted a production of Janáček's Věc Makropulos at the Metropolitan Opera (Met) which featured Jessye Norman. Robertson made his next conducting appearance at the Met in April-May 2008 with performances of Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail.

Robertson has recorded for the Sony Classical, Harmonia mundi, Naive, EMI/Virgin Classics, Atlantic/Erato, Nuema, Ades Valois, Naxos and Nonesuch labels, featuring the music of such composers as Adams, Bartók, Boulez, Carter, Dusapin, Dvorák, Ginastera, Lalo, Manoury, Milhaud, Reich, Saint-Saëns, and Silvestrov.

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Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell (pronounced /ˈpɜrsəl/;)as an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music. Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music.

Early life and career:

Purcell was born in St Ann's Lane, Old Pye Street, Westminster. Henry Purcell Senior was a gentleman of the Chapel Royal, and sang at the coronation of King Charles II of England. His older brother Thomas Purcell (d. 1682) was also a musician. Henry the elder had three sons, Edward, Henry and Daniel. Daniel Purcell (d. 1717), the youngest of the brothers, was also a prolific composer who wrote the music for much of the final act of The Indian Queen after Henry Purcell's death. Henry Purcell's family lived just a few hundred yards west of Westminster Abbey in year 1659 and onward.

After his father's death in 1664, Purcell was placed under the guardianship of his uncle, who showed him great affection and kindness. Thomas was himself a gentleman of His Majesty's chapel, and arranged for Henry to be admitted as a chorister. Henry studied first under Captain Henry Cooke (d. 1672), Master of the Children, and afterwards under Pelham Humfrey (d. 1674), Cooke's successor. Henry was a chorister in the Chapel Royal until his voice broke in 1673, at which time he became assistant to John Hingeston, the musical instrument keeper for the King.

Purcell is said to have been composing at nine years old, but the earliest work that can be certainly identified as his is an ode for the King's birthday, written in 1670. (The dates for his compositions are often uncertain, despite considerable research.)

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Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 – November 4, 1847) was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.

The grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, he was born into a notable Jewish family, although he himself was brought up initially without religion, and later as a Lutheran. He was recognized early as a musical prodigy, but his parents were cautious and did not seek to capitalise on his abilities. Indeed his father was disinclined to allow Felix to follow a musical career until it became clear that he intended to seriously dedicate himself to it.

He was recognized early as a musical prodigy, but his parents were cautious and did not seek to capitalise on his abilities. Indeed his father was disinclined to allow Felix to follow a musical career until it became clear that he intended to seriously dedicate himself to it.

Childhood:

Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg, Germany, the son of a banker, Abraham Mendelssohn (who later changed his surname to Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and who was himself the son of the German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn), and of Lea Salomon, a member of the Itzig family and the sister of Jakob Salomon Bartholdy. He was the family's second child: his older sister Fanny Mendelssohn was also to display, like him, exceptional and precocious musical talent.

Felix grew up in an environment of intense intellectual ferment. The greatest minds of Germany were frequent visitors to his family's home in Berlin, including Wilhelm von Humboldt and Alexander von Humboldt. His sister Rebecca married the Belgian mathematician Lejeune Dirichlet.

Early Maturity:

Felix probably made his first public concert appearance at the age of nine, when he participated in a chamber music concert accompanying a horn duo. He was also a prolific composer from an early age. As an adolescent, his works were often performed at home with a private orchestra for the associates of his wealthy parents amongst the intellectual elite of Berlin. Between the ages of 12 and 14, Mendelssohn wrote twelve string symphonies. These works were ignored for over a century, but are now recorded and occasionally played in concerts. He wrote his first published work, a piano quartet, by the time he was thirteen.

Joseph Haydn

Joseph Haydn (March 31, 1732 – May 31, 1809) was an Austrian composer. He was one of the most important, prolific and prominent composers of the classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these genres.

Early Life:

Joseph Haydn was born in Rohrau, Austria, a village near the border with Hungary. His father was Mathias Haydn, a wheelwright who also served as "Marktrichter", an office akin to village mayor.

Haydn's parents had noticed that their son was musically gifted and knew that in Rohrau he would have no chance to obtain any serious musical training. It was for this reason that they accepted a proposal from their relative Johann Matthias Frankh, the schoolmaster and choirmaster in Hainburg, that Haydn be apprenticed to Frankh in his home to train as a musician. Haydn therefore went off with Frankh to Hainburg (seven miles away) and never again lived with his parents. He was six years old.

In a freelancer role:

By 1749, Haydn had finally matured physically to the point that he was no longer able to sing high choral parts--the Empress herself complained to Reutter about his singing, calling it "crowing". One day, Haydn carried out a prank, snipping off the pigtail of a fellow chorister.This was enough for Reutter: Haydn was first caned, then summarily dismissed and sent into the streets with no home to go to. However, he had the good fortune to be taken in by a friend, Johann Michael Spangler, who for a few months shared with Haydn his family's crowded garret room. Haydn was able to begin immediately his pursuit of a career as a freelance musician.

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George Frideric Handel

He was a German-English Baroque composer, who is famous for his operas, oratorios, and concerti grossi. Handel grew up in Germany and was trained in Italy, but settled in England in 1712, becoming a naturalised subject of the British crown on 20 February 1727

His works include Messiah, Water Music, and Music for the Royal Fireworks.

Early life:

Handel was born in Halle.His father, Georg Händel, 63 when his son was born, was an eminent barber-surgeon who also served as surgeon to the court of Saxe-Weissenfels and the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

According to John Mainwaring, his first biographer, "Handel had discovered such a strong propensity to Music, that his father who always intended him for the study of the Civil Law, had reason to be alarmed. He strictly forbad him to meddle with any musical instrument but Handel found means to get a little clavichord privately convey'd to a room at the top of the house. To this room he constantly stole when the family was asleep". At an early age Handel became a skillful performer on the harpsichord and pipe organ.

In 1702, following his father's wishes, Handel began the study of law at the University of Halle and also succeeded in getting an appointment as the organist at the local protestant cathedral. After a year Handel seems to have been very unsatisfied and in 1703, he moved to Hamburg, accepting a position as violinist and harpsichordist in the orchestra of the opera house. There, he met Johann Mattheson, Christoph Graupner and Reinhard Keiser. His first two operas, Almira and Nero, were produced in 1705. He produced two other early operas, Daphne and Florindo, in 1708. It is unclear if Handel directed these latter performances himself.

In 1710, Handel became Kapellmeister to George, Elector of Hanover, who would become King George I of Great Britain in 1714. He visited Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici and her husband in Düsseldorf on his way to London in 1710.

"Handel is the greatest composer who ever lived.

I would bare my head and kneel at his grave"

-- L.v. Beethoven (1824)

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The Proms in 2009 season

The principal anniversary composers included In the 2009 season, which ran from 17 July to 12 September 2009, the total number of concerts reached 100 for the first time.

1. George Frideric Handel (250th anniversary of his death)

2. Joseph Haydn (200th anniversary of his death)

3. Felix Mendelssohn (200th anniversary of his birth)

4. Henry Purcell (350th anniversary of his birth)

The humorist and music impresario Gerard Hoffnung was also remembered with the performance in the Last Night of Malcolm Arnold's A Grand Grand Overture, which was commissioned for the first Hoffnung Music Festival.

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.

Guide which was published in April, you might want to grab a pen and do some defacing.

The complete and updated listings are also available through the Proms website, if pen and ink ain't your thing.

BBC Proms 2009 runs between 17 July - 12 September.

Corrections and alterations run as follows:

Prom 2 (18 July)

Sophie Bevan replaces Sarah Tynan as Eve in Haydn's The Creation.

Members of the Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir join Chetham's Chamber Choir and the Gabrieli Consort in the chorus.

Prom 6 (20 July)

Andrew Kennedy replaces James Gilchrist as the tenor for James MacMillan's Seven Last Words from the Cross.

Prom 7 (21 July)

The full cast list for Purcell's The Fairy Queen is announced as follows:

Soprano - Carolyn Sampson

Soprano - Lucy Crowe

Soprano - Claire Debono

Soprano - Anna Devin

Tenor - Sean Clayton

Tenor - Ed Lyon

Tenor - Adrian Ward

Bass-baritone - Andrew Foster-Williams

Hermina - Susannah Wise

Demetrius - Oliver Le Sueur

some may b missing

Please also note that the semi-staging for BBC Proms is directed by Francesca Gilpin, based on the original production for Glyndebourne by Jonathan Kent.

Prom 19 (30 July)

Steve Davislim replaces Peter Auty as the tenor for Berloiz's La mort de léopâtre.

Proms Plus (1 August)

David Benedict joins Petroc Trelawny and Patrick O' Connor to explore the world of MGM musicals.

Prom 21/23 (1 and 2 August)

The title of the BBC commission by Goldie is announced as Sine Tempore ('Without Time'). The London Philharmonic Choir is announced to perform in this concert.

Prom 22 (1 August)

Seth MacFarlane, singer and creator of Emmy award-winning series Family Guy, is announced to perform MGM classics in this concert.

Prom 24 (2 August)

Jörg Schneider is announced as the tenor for Berlioz's Te Deum. The BBC commission from Ben Foskett is called From Trumpet.

Prom 30 (7 August)

Oliver Knussen's Horn Concerto replaces Cleveland Pictures in this concert, with Martin Owen as the soloist.

Prom 32 (9 August)

The title for the BBC commission by Anna Meredith is announced as Left Light.

Prom 33 (9 August)

Synergy Vocals are announced to perform the three vocal parts in Grand Pianola Music by John Adams.

Pianists Tom Poster and Alissa Firsova (who replaces the originally advertised François-Frédéric Guy) are announced to play in Stravinsky's Les Noces.

Prom 39 (14 August)

The full cast of Sir Harrison Birtwistle's The Mask of Orpheus - The Arches is announced as follows:

Orpheus (the man) - Alan Oke (tenor)

Orpheus (the myth) - Thomas Walker (tenor)

Euridice (the woman) - Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano)

Sound Projection - Ian Dearden

some may be missing

PCM 14 (30 August)

Tim Sedley is announced as cello continuo for the Purcell and Handel Arias and duets.

PCM 16 (31 August)

Tim Sedley is announced as cello continuo for Bach pieces in this concert.

Prom 66 (4 September)

Claire Booth is announced as the soprano soloist, and Louis Watkins as the boy soprano, for George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children.

Hilary Summers sings mezzo-soprano in Night of the Four Moons.

Prom 70 (8 September)

The title for the world premiere by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is announced as Violin Concerto No 2 Fiddler on the Shore.

Prom 72 (9 September)

Jennifer Koh replaces Frank Peter Zimmermann as the violinist for Violin Concerto No 3 Juggler in Paradise by Augusta Read Thomas.

Noted historical anniversaries covered in the 2009 Proms included the 75th anniversary of the MGM film musical, and the 10th year of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. There was a child-oriented Prom to mark the Darwin bicentenary as well as a Free Family Prom including the Proms Family Orchestra.

i have just mentioned early life and childhood only for the purpose of inspiration because one can know about others achievement with out trying to know but it takes time/effort to know how he has got this destination.you may already know their names but you don't know what was behind the scene.

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History of the last night proms

Proms is short for promenade concert,which is normally associated today with the series of concerts founded in 1895 by Robert Newman and the conductor Henry Wood – a festival known today as the BBC Proms – the term originally referred to concerts in the pleasure gardens of London where the audience could stroll about while listening to the music.

The Proms, more formally known as The BBC Proms or The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts presented by the BBC, is an eight-week summer season of daily classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in South Kensington which is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London.Each season currently consists of over 70 concerts in the Albert Hall, a series of chamber concerts at Cadogan Hall, it is too much easy to buy tickets for everyone.Tickets for the proms are available.In 2009 the total number of concerts reached 100 for the first time.
They were called Promenade concerts because a large part of the seating area had no seats and so the patrons had to stand during the performances. This is still true at Proms concerts in London today, and dedicated Prommers will tell you that this is the best place to be. During the original Proms the patrons could smoke, eat and drink, as Newman and Wood wanted to keep the atmosphere as informal as possible, although customers were asked not to strike matches during vocal performances.

The first Proms concert was held on 10 August 1895 in the Queen's Hall in Langham Place, under the auspices of impresario Robert Newman. Newman's idea was to encourage an audience for concert hall music who, though not normally attending classical concerts, would be attracted by the low ticket prices and more informal atmosphere.He stated his goal as follows:

"I am going to run nightly concerts and train the public by easy stages. Popular at first, gradually raising the standard until I have created a public for classical and modern music.

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