The Classical Music Minute

The BBC Proms Is Back This Summer!

May 16, 2022 Steven Hobé, Composer & Host Season 1 Episode 55
The Classical Music Minute
The BBC Proms Is Back This Summer!
Show Notes Transcript

Description
After a harrowing pandemic, and shut down of the arts worldwide, the BBC Proms is back this summer. It will showcase repertoire not heard at the festival since 2019, but also lesser-known works in its ‘Cinderella’ instruments series. Join me, Steven Hobé, as we take a minute to get the scoop!

Fun Fact
The 2022 Proms marks the centenary year of the BBC, celebrating a historic partnership between music and broadcasting that has brought the world’s largest classical music festival into people’s homes across the UK and beyond.

About Steven
Steven is a Canadian composer living in Toronto. He creates a range of works, with an emphasis on the short-form genre—his muse being to offer the listener both the darker and more satiric shades of human existence. If you're interested, please check out his website for more.

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After a harrowing pandemic, and shut down of the arts worldwide, the BBC Proms is back this summer.

The 2022 BBC Proms will showcase repertoire not heard at the festival since 2019 as it returns in its full glory.

The Proms runs July 15-Sept 10 at the Royal Albert Hall. But will also be streamed on radio and online live on BBC Radio 3 and available on BBC Sounds, BBC television and BBC iPlayer, so no matter where you are in the world, you can enjoy. The BBC’s philosophy is to make the best of classical music available to all. And I certainly support that!

This season, the Proms will explore more unusual, ‘Cinderella’ instruments. The programme includes performances of concertos for theremin, tuba, flute, oboe, horn, viola, harp, percussion and trombone, demonstrating the subtlety, range and depth of these instruments.

The Proms kicks off on July 15th with Verdi’s Requiem. I will be listening. Will you?