What is a Prom?
A Prom means a Promenade Concert, or a concert where part of the audience stands in a "promenade" area of the hall.
The BBC Proms is an annual music festival running from mid-July to mid-September and comprising over seventy Prom concerts.
In the Beginning
The first Proms concert took place on 10 August 1895 and was the brainchild of the impresario Robert Newman, manager of the newly built Queen's Hall in London.
While Newman had previously organised symphony orchestra concerts at the hall, his aim was to reach a wider audience by offering more popular programmes, adopting a less formal promenade arrangement, and keeping ticket prices low.
A New Home at the Royal Albert Hall
Three days after Britain declared war on Germany, the BBC decentralised its Music Department and announced that it was unable to support the Proms.
With characteristic determination Wood found private sponsorship for the 1940 and 1941 seasons, and replaced the BBC orchestra with the London Symphony Orchestra. But air-raids intensified and the 1940 season lasted only four weeks. On 10 May 1941 a Luftwaffe bombardment gutted the Queen's Hall.
The only other hall available in London for orchestral concerts was the Royal Albert Hall, opened in 1871. It was not until the following season that the BBC returned to sponsor the Proms.
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No he ido nunca, pero los he escuchado cienes de veces por Radio Nacional Clásica (98.8 FM), y son alucinantes. La Last Night of the Proms es la leche. Se lo pasan como enanos. Son conciertos muy buenos y muy divertidos. Van las mejores orquestas del mundo y los mejores directores. Una anécdota, por ejemplo: el año pasado pusieron un globo gigante en el techo de la Royal Albert Hall con forma de Mary Poppins xDDDDDDDD Es la leche. Si no váis tenéis que oírlos por la radio
sobre los Proms - http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2007/
Galería de fotos - http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2007/abouttheproms/gallery06/gallery.shtml?1yujuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!