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.
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
The Pomp and Circumstance Marches are a series of five marches for orchestra composed by Edward Elgar between 1901 and 1930, together with a sixth march created in 2006 by Anthony Payne from Elgar's s
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…winding-down' vein, with popular classics followed by a second half of British patriotic pieces. This sequence traditionally includes Edward Elgar's "Pomp & Circumstance March No. 1" (to part of which "Land of Hope and Glory" is sung) and Henry Wood's "Fantasia on British Sea Songs", followed by Thomas Arne's "Rule…
Ivor Atkins, dedicatee of the third march