📢 @BBCProms reports record-breaking digital performance!
Reaching over 10.6 million people on TV so far, with 4.6 million streams of BBC Proms 2024 content on @BBCiPlayer and @BBCSounds
Read more ➡️ https://t.co/mkSE0WVDDR
Britten’s arrangement of The National Anthem is the perfect combination of reverent and daring 👑
The 2024 #LNotP might be over, but this isn’t goodbye, it’s see you later! 👋
Mark your calendars for 18 July 2025... #FNotP 🤭🗓️
"You have to make adjustments to people who might be different to you."
Caller Darren starts his seven-minute long tribute to his community by telling @ShelaghFogarty how he interacts with people from other cultures, and how they've helped shape his outlook.
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The #BBCProms 2024 kicked off in joyous and celebratory fashion 🎶
A huge thank you to the audiences who joined us in person, or tuning in at home, to conductor Elim Chan, pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason, soprano Sophie Bevan, and the forces of the BBC SO & Chorus and BBC Singers. Congratulations to composer Ben Nobuto on the world premiere of his piece Hallelujah Sim.
You can listen on @bbcsounds and watch on @bbciplayer for 12 months.
📷 Chris Christodoulou
... their teacher today upset that they would not have a violin to play come the summer holidays, as they are loaned one by the college. A lot of the students are on bursaries to help cover the cost of lessons. The RWCMD decision only hastens the death of music education in wales
The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama told its staff today that it is axeing its junior department at the end of this term. Almost 200 children study there on saturdays. That will all stop in July. This is not rich kids playing expensive instruments. One of them texted...
Thank you to all who joined us tonight at the Barbican for Total Immersion: Italian Radicals.
...especially to conductor Martyn Brabbins, soloists Anna Dennis, John Finden, @ndanielmusic, and @TomLessels – and to the @BBC_Singers.
This concert was recorded for broadcast and will be played on @BBCRadio3 on 1 July. It will also be available on @BBCSounds.
I’m letting someone else do the countdown tonight ! 😂
I’ll be home with the family .. wishing you all a wonderful New Year. 🥳
May you all enjoy health and happiness in 2024 🫶🏼
I’ve written to @10DowningSt and @Keir_Starmer, supported by @coldplay, @edsheeran and industry leaders, calling for public funding for @misst_music. More students in disadvantaged schools need access to quality music education; the benefits are proven and life-changing. ALW
This is for the 3.8 million lives that were ignored.
The freelancers and the self employed.
The Conference are trying every trick to have this taken down…so I’ve just deployed large digital vans as well, to keep circling the area.
Berg’s expressive Violin Concerto in rehearsal with violinist Leila Josefowicz, and conductor @oramsa, who we are very grateful to for stepping in at short notice.🎻
Listen live tomorrow from 7.30pm on @bbcradio3 & @BBCSounds🎶
Killer song after killer song. Most of us artists can only dream of having a catalogue like this. What a SET. The legacy Elton leaves us is immeasurable. @eltonofficial#EltonJohn#Glastonbury ❤️
The masterful @hlintu led the @BBCSO through an epic programme this evening - including a moving tribute to the late Kaija Saariaho with Ciel d’hiver, followed by UK premiere of @annathorvalds AIŌN, which permeated the Concert Hall with its energy and vitality.
Rehearsals for the world premiere of @IainBellMusic’s Beowulf sounding amazing. Martyn Brabbins conducting with tenor @Charles_Styles, the BBC Symphony Chorus and award-winning actor Ruth Wilson 🤩
There’s still time to join us @BarbicanCentre
🎟 https://t.co/w2F1pCPCI6
We’re live at @BarbicanCentre and on @BBCSounds from 7.30pm.
Join us for Stravinsky’s Petrushka, Lindberg’s Serenades, Ustvolskaya’s Symphony No. 1 and Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with Denis Kozhukhin and Hannu Lintu.