BBC Proms

BBC Proms

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Does music have the power to save the planet © Maria Corte Maidagan

Music has the power to save the planet. Here’s how

As he relives a memorable evening at the BBC Proms, Tom Service ponders how music might make us reconsider our relationship with the world around us
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Jiri Belohlavek conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra during the Last Night Of The Proms at Royal Albert Hall on September 8, 2012 in London, United Kingdom

BBC Symphony Orchestra: all you need to know about the BBC Proms' busiest orchestra

Discover the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC’s principal broadcasting orchestra at the heart of British cultural life since 1930
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Forget Tinder: join a Proms queue and fall in love

From an indicator of ongoing popularity to an unlikely dating service, the queue to buy tickets for the Proms is an institution we should cherish, says Tom Service
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Nicholas McCarthy one-handed pianist

Today at the BBC Proms: a truly unique pianist who's defied all the odds

Tonight's BBC Proms concert features a pianist who's conquered adversity - plus one of the 20th century's most gripping works
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Doctor Who Prom - David Tennant and Catherine Tate in the TARDIS

Get ready for a trip in the TARDIS on Christmas Eve! The Doctor Who Prom is on TV...

This Christmas there's a return for one of the most popular 2024 BBC Proms - featuring music, monsters and a few familiar faces from the BBC’s universally popular sci-fi series ‘Doctor Who’
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Composer Franz Liszt

BBC Proms tonight: Franz Liszt's incredible piano travel diaries

Tonight at the BBC Proms, acclaimed South Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho gives us some of Liszt's vivid sonic travelogue, Années de pèlerinage
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Serbian violinist Nemanja Radulović

BBC Proms Today: Prokofiev's dazzling Romeo and Juliet, Tchaikovsky's passionate Violin Concerto

At the BBC Proms today: Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, plus one of the best loved violin concertos and a fizzing concert overture
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Pop singer Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine

BBC Proms today: it's Florence and The Machine!

Iconic indie / art pop band Florence and The Machine are at the BBC Proms today, with an orchestral performance of their incredible breakthrough album Lungs
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Finnish conductor Tarmo Peltokoski

BBC Proms today: the 20th century's greatest symphony?

Today's Prom features Shostakovich's great Symphony No. 5, with which the composer somehow managed to please both the public and the Soviet authorities
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