Musical Times, October 1st, 2007
Into the arena The Proms: a new history Edited by Jenny Doctor & David Wright Thames & Hudson (London, 2007); 320pp; £24.95. ISBN 978 0 500 51352 1.
IT'S ALL TOO TEMPTING to regard the Proms, with its jingoistic Last Night, as a national institution like the Monarchy or the House of Lords, and feel similar conflicting sentiments towards them - respectful if slightly blasé feelings about the whole quasi-ritualistic business or, by contrast, the wish to subject this apparent cultural monument to radical alterations. In reality, however, throughout their existence there was never any r...
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