The Proms in the Park
Times of IndiaWorld Reviewer/MUSIC, LONDON/ Updated : Jun 19, 2014, 20:13 IST
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To help ease the passing of summer for the British public the BBC has a big party—embracing everything that's good about music and about Britain. Or else that's what the Proms in the Park felt like to me the first year I went.
To help ease the passing of summer for the British public the BBC has a big party—embracing everything that's good about music and about Britain. Or else that's what the Proms in the Park felt like to me the first year I went. Read less
To help ease the passing of summer for the British public the BBC has a big party—embracing everything that's good about music and about Britain. Or else that's what the Proms in the Park felt like to me the first year I went. It's part picnic, part concert, part great British sing along. And there I tried my first 'pig in a blanket', drank my first warm white wine, first saw people standing for the national anthem draped in a union jack and generally had a really good time. The music and comparing is always highly entertaining but it has a nice feel to it, a feel of good will to all men, Jerusalem and dancing. Wogan is often involved. For me, he's a good match for the Proms in the Park.The Proms in the Park is on the last night of the Proms, held in outdoor locations throughout the UK—though I've only been to the one in Hyde Park across from the Albert Hall where the real thing is taking place. They do a live televised link up round the country and into the Royal Albert Hall. The whole thing is supposed to be very democratic, but tickets aren't as cheap as I think they should be.
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