The launch of the 2011 Ö÷²¥´óÐã Proms
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| 16:30 PM, Thursday, 14 April 2011
18:00 update. The About the Ö÷²¥´óÐã blog has just published a post rounding up discussion of the new Proms programme.
On the Radio 3 blog Roger Wright, the Controller of Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio 3 and Director of Ö÷²¥´óÐã Proms, has blogged about this year's Prom's season:
It's the morning of the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Proms launch. I have a real sense of anticipation and excitement because, at last, it's possible to tell everyone about the 2011 plans.
I always feel rather unfriendly keeping the plans as secret as possible until now.
We need as much publicity as possible on launch day as we have hundreds of thousands of tickets to sell and therefore want to spread the word as widely as we can. Leaks beforehand would simply drip the news out and potentially undermine the launch day splash.Of course, in these days of social networking, rumours spread very quickly - and some of them were really wide of the mark! The first Proms performance of Havergal Brian's Gothic Symphony, however, has been one of the worst kept secrets in recent history!Ìý It's been fun to read the message boards full of 'will they, won't they?' comments. So now it's clear - we will! I'm not, by the way, one of those who, in order to make the case for a neglected work, overstates its importance. I don't claim the Gothic as a masterpiece, any more than I do the Second Symphony of (also receiving its Proms premiere this year),Ìý but I do think they are important pieces, worth hearing in good performances and then letting audiences make up their own mind, rather than being influenced by second- or third-hand opinions.
Read the rest of Launching the 2011 Ö÷²¥´óÐã Proms... on the Radio 3 blog.
Paul Murphy is the acting editor of the Radio blog
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- Ö÷²¥´óÐã Proms 2011 press pack
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