First Night of the Proms review – 250th anniversary of US independence takes centre stage
From Copland to Gershwin and a new Emily Dickinson-based commission it was America’s evening – although Jerusalem did get an outingAnd we’re back. The “world’s greatest classical music festival” has flung wide the doors of the Royal Albert Hall for another eight-week season. Where the Last Night of the Proms is often strangely separate – a self-contained musical party for an entirely different audience – the First Night is the celebration for those here for the long haul, the scene-setter…
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