Proms 2020

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Last Night of the Proms TV audience down after Rule, Britannia! row
Average 2.1m viewers watched weekend’s show compared with 3.5m over recent years

Jim Waterson Media editor

14, Sep, 2020 @12:36 PM

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Last Night of the Proms review – party falls flat as BBC miss chance to speak up
Despite desperate cheeriness from assorted guests and committed performances from all musicians, this event is about more than the music, and 2020’s concert failed to reflect current times

Flora Willson

13, Sep, 2020 @1:59 PM

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TV tonight: the Last Night of the Proms 2020
Rule, Britannia, or not, the highlight of this year’s unusual classical music calendar promises to serve up new pieces and old favourites. Plus: Jonathan Ross’ Comedy Club. Here’s what to watch this evening

Ammar Kalia, Graeme Virtue, Hannah Verdier, Ellen E Jones and Paul Howlett

12, Sep, 2020 @5:00 AM

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Aurora Orch/Collon review – Ayres and Beethoven pairing is vivid and lithe
Richard Ayres’s complex Beethoven tribute had real emotional power, while the latter’s Seventh symphony – performed from memory – was a joyous celebration of energy

Andrew Clements

11, Sep, 2020 @11:56 AM

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BBCNOW/Bancroft review – panache, poignancy and a howl of protest
Ryan Bancroft’s first concert as principal conductor packed an emotional punch with a suite of American classics and a fierce new commission by Gavin Higgins

Tim Ashley

10, Sep, 2020 @11:12 AM

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TV tonight: Russell Howard returns to ridicule the news
What will the comic and his celebrity guests make of this momentous year? Plus: Britain’s first all-black male stripper group. Here’s what to watch this evening

Ammar Kalia, Ali Catterall, Phil Harrison, Ellen E Jones and Paul Howlett

10, Sep, 2020 @9:59 AM

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Golda Schultz: ‘Odd is the word for this Last Night of the Proms’
The South African-born soprano on making music in lockdown

Fiona Maddocks

06, Sep, 2020 @10:00 AM

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The week in classical: LPO/Pappano; BBC Proms review – upbeat pleasures
The LPO strings, soloists and a stand-in by the name of Antonio Pappano shone in Britten and Schoenberg. And the stars aligned in a Prom to remember

Fiona Maddocks

05, Sep, 2020 @11:00 AM

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Rule, Britannia! row risks riling rightwingers | Letters
Letters: Alan Clark says an opinion piece went too far in calling the Last Night of the Proms a supremacist indulgence, while Peter Wrigley is bemused by the strength of public opinion on the matter. Plus Marie Paterson puts the issue into Orwellian perspective

Letters

04, Sep, 2020 @3:19 PM

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Benedetti/OAE/Cohen review – baroque prom programme brings subdued fun
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment violinists duetted with Nicola Benedetti in lively, playful Vivaldi concertos, which left Handel and Bach sounding a little tame

Erica Jeal

04, Sep, 2020 @12:59 PM

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BBC says words to Rule, Britannia! will now be sung at Proms
Decision comes three days into tenure of new director general Tim Davie, who said original choice was due to Covid-19

Mark Brown Arts correspondent

02, Sep, 2020 @3:23 PM

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The Rule, Britannia! row is too important for anti-racists to ignore | Joseph Harker
This is not about the past, but the present, says Joseph Harker, Guardian Opinion deputy editor

Joseph Harker

02, Sep, 2020 @2:06 PM

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