The Proms should stop trying so hard to be what it isn’t and can never be
Angel Blue joined the BBC Symphony Orchestra for the Last Night of the Proms conducted by Sakari Oramo and Radio 3, well away from casual mainstream audiences.
On the strength of this year’s line-up, nothing very coherent. Not so very long ago the last night of the festival was a continuation and culmination of the previous eight weeks of concerts. Look back ten – even five – years, and there are properly meaty musical mains before the sugar-hit of sea-shanties and patriotic songs that finish the evening.
You could forgive a festival for being so proud of its performers that it just couldn’t narrow it down, but scarcely two hours of that is actually music; the rest is mostly interminable stage-faff, leaving audiences restive, crowd-sourcing their own punchlines with party-poppers, balloons and bicycle horns.
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