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One way or another, every BBC Prom is included here:
https://www.colinscolumn.com/category/bbc-proms-2023/
and each can be listened to (individual links available) for thirty days following the Last Night.
Photos taken at Proms concerts are copyright BBC and the credited photographer.
Well it tried to cover all the new boxes to be filled in, one after the other. The flags were a mystery. In these times of war and perstilence I rarher enjoyed hearing Land of Hope and Glory. There but by the grace of God etc.
Described as one of the best Proms in 60 years I certainly enjoyed most of the Proms I attended with only one real dud.
For the Last Night they’d axed all the outdoor regional broadcast events (on cost grounds?) but still interpolated Welsh, Scottish and Irish elements during (what remains of) Henry Wood’s Sea Songs. The TV presenters as always were full of disinformation. Surely it wouldn’t take much time to check the year in which the Proms actually started. In the wake of Elgar’s superb orchestration of Jerusalem and Britten’s recasting of the National Anthem, Auld Lang Syne was merely vulgarized in a commercial arrangement, our national decline in a nutshell.