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The BBC Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London.
1895 in music
…May 18 – Australian contralto Ada Crossley makes her London début at the Queen's Hall. August 10 – The first ever indoor promenade concert, origin of The Proms, is held at the Queen's Hall in London, opening a series promoted by impresario Robert Newman with 26-year-old Henry Wood as sole conductor. The first…
The audience in the Royal Albert Hall during the 2017 BBC Proms
The first Promenade Concerts were held in the Queen's Hall until its destruction in 1941
The Proms moved to the Royal Albert Hall in 1944 (pictured here during the 2008 Proms season
A promenade concert in the Royal Albert Hall, 2022