Prom 59: The Children's Prom | Classical review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonDo children have shorter attention spans than they did a generation ago? The gentleman sitting beside me and my eight-year-old son at the Children's Prom robustly asserted that they did; he had been forced as a nine-year-old to sit through Don Giovanni and it had done him all sorts of good.By contrast, the children watching Prom 59 were terrible fidgets, despite the most gentle attempts by the BBC to spoonfeed them manageable lumps of music. At first, the fidgeting was a...

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