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
Elgar in 1904
Ivor Atkins, dedicatee of the third march
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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.
Pomp and Circumstance Marches
…and the organists Ivor Atkins, G. R. Sinclair and Percy Hull. In England, the first, and best-known, of the marches is an established feature at the Last Night of the Proms every year, and in the US and elsewhere its slow middle section is traditionally played as the processional tune at most high school and college…
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