Henry Wood
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Sir Henry Joseph Wood was an English conductor best known for his association with London's annual series of promenade concerts, known as the Proms. He conducted them for nearly half a century, introd
Portrait by Ernest Walter Histed, c. 1906
1891 production of Messager's La Basoche, for which Wood was répétiteur
Robert Newman, co-founder with Wood of the Queen's Hall promenade concerts
Wood in 1908 – painting by Cyrus Cuneo
BBC Proms
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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.
Henry Wood
…March 1869 – 19 August 1944) was an English conductor best known for his association with London's annual series of promenade concerts, known as the Proms. He conducted them for nearly half a century, introducing hundreds of new works to British audiences. After his death, the concerts were officially…
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