[Promenade Concerts (London) : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia]
- Bib ID:
- 4330957
- Format:
- Book
- Related Online Resources:
- Finding aid at National Library of Australia
- Description:
- folders of programs and miscellaneous pieces.
- Series:
- Australian performing arts programs and ephemera (PROMPT) collection
- Biography/History:
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Promenade concerts were musical performances in the 18th and 19th century pleasure gardens of London, where the audience would stroll about while listening to the music. Today, the term promenade concert is often associated with the BBC Proms summer classical music concert series, founded in 1895 by Robert Newman and the conductor Henry Wood. The BBC Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London. The season is a significant event in British culture and in classical music. Though the concerts are now called the BBC Proms, the tickets and publications are subtitled "BBC Music presents the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts". The "Henry Wood Promenade Concerts" were named in honour of Henry Wood.
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer.
- Material in the Australian performing arts programs and ephemera (PROMPT) collection consists of programs and related items about the Promenade Concerts (London) including various Australian performers: Peter Dawson, Malcolm McEachern, Florence Austral, John Brownlee, Harold Williams, Horace Stevens, Evelyn Scotney, Eileen Joyce, Ruth Naylor, Joan Hammond, Marjorie Lawrence, Elsie Morison, Sylvia Fisher, William Herbert, John Cameron, Joan Sutherland, Ronald Dowd, Marie Collier, Barry Tuckwell, Yvonne Minton, Anthony Roden, and Florence Austral.
- Programs held between 1920s and 2000s.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
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- This collection is featured in the Guide to Australian Performing Arts Programs and Ephemera (PROMPT) Collections in the National Library of Australia
- A partial list of contents is available, for items acquired from 2023 onwards.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Also Titled:
- Henry Wood Promenade Concerts
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- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1944
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 9999
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