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Proms 2023: Female conductors to open and close festival for the first time

This year’s BBC Proms will be opened and closed by female conductors for the first time in its history.

Evening Standard

Requiem to revolution via Aeneas and Kafka’s Earplugs: our 10 Proms picks

As the BBC unveils this year’s Proms programme, we pick 10 concerts not to be missed

The Guardian - UK

There is no one with power to fight for classical music at the BBC now. It’s as if Herod runs the creche

Savage cuts suggest a cadre of bosses has forgotten what public service broadcasting is, says Paul Hughes, former director of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the BBC Singers

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Last night of the Proms cancelled out of respect for Queen

After cancellation of Thursday evening’s event, BBC announces final two concerts of the eight-week season will not go ahead

The Guardian - UK

Prom 69: Missa Solemnis review – urgency and majesty as Gardiner makes Beethoven thrill

Beethoven’s great choral work was vivid and electrifying in this Proms performance, with soloists Lucy Crowe and Giovanni Sala particularly impressive

The Guardian - UK

Prom 61: Chineke!/Edusei review – the choral symphony gleams and teems with detail

The young orchestra brought lightness and an appealing new directness to their Proms performance of George Walker’s Lilacs and Beethoven’s 9th

The Guardian - UK

The top brass: Ahead of two dedicated Proms, can brass bands finally move beyond the cliches?

It’s been 33 years since the last Prom dedicated to brass band music, while Gavin Higgins’ concerto for Brass band and orchestra is the first Proms commission of its kind. It’s time to forget that Hovis ad and celebrate the banding world

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On my radar: Ian McKellen’s cultural highlights

The actor on the radical joy of the Proms, a fun gay club night and the theatre he treasures most of all

The Guardian - UK

The First Night of the Proms review – moments of beauty amid the fury

Royal Albert Hall, LondonAfter the restrictions of the last two seasons, the massed choirs and orchestra are given notable prominence this year

The Guardian - UK

‘We hear things no one else notices’: Proms composers on their extraordinary new music

The world’s greatest classical music festival is back. From landing on Mars to the life of a beehive, Thomas Adès, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Jennifer Walshe and others tell us about the work they’ll debut there

The Guardian - UK

Pick of the BBC Proms 2022: Presenters on the concerts they can’t wait to see

From the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, to a celebration of Aretha Franklin and the music of video games, BBC TV presenters on the Proms not to miss this summer

Evening Standard

BBC Proms at Sage Gateshead will turn TV spotlight on local talent in July concert

Tickets are available to Proms music showcase at Sage Gateshead as the BBC institution ventures beyond the Albert Hall

Chronicle Live

A progressive Proms? I don’t believe it!

Brief letters: Aversion to change | New bank holidays | Wordle tactics | Size doesn’t matter

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Young North East singers offered chance to perform in live BBC Proms concert at Sage Gateshead this summer

Hitting the right note - recruitment drive seeks 16 to 30-year-olds for new choir Voices of the River's Edge to sing in a BBC Proms first

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Pokémon goes to the Proms: 2022 season to feature first video game music concert

The BBC Proms video games concert will look back over the history of the genre, with scores from The Legend of Zelda, Battlefield 2042 and more

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Composer Harrison Birtwistle dies aged 87

The prolific British composer drew on poetry and folklore for his uncompromising but lyrical music. A Proms’ premiere, Panic, brought him national notoriety

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