Last Night of the Proms – review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonIt's the end of term. The Albert Hall arena is full of well-behaved schoolchildren playing at being naughty. The women of the BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra are in their best frocks. Flags wave, deflating balloons whizz up in the air, and as conductor Edward Gardner strides off the platform there's a streamer stuck to his heel.Yes, it's the Last Night of the Proms, which as the evening progresses has an increasingly tenuous connection with the otherwise cosmopolitan a...

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