Last night of the Proms

The annual feast of jingoism had flags, fancy-dress and David Attenborough on a floor polisher It's six years, I discover, since I previously attended the last night of the Proms. That was a relatively standard affair presided over by conductor Leonard Slatkin. My visit before that, in 2001, just a few days after 9/11, had been very different, the whole programme rejigged at the last minute to become a sombre memorial concert. Before that it had been 1995, the late John Drummond's farewell as P...

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