BBC Proms 1 - 8 – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe Prommers are back at the rail, inches from the conductor's feet and chanting their synchronised heave-hos. The fountain has gone from the middle of the arena but the shiny bust of Sir Henry Wood, who dreamt up the whole idea in 1895, is in its rightful place near the organ. Designers have fixed a new lighting scheme, colours changing with each piece to make you feel you might, after all, be endowed with synaesthesia. Otherwise not much has changed.Of all the sights a...

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