(Prom 1) Television cameras at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

First Night of the Proms

Last Night of the Proms

Season 6

(Prom 49) Television cameras are at the Royal Albert Hall, London, for the second half of the closing concert in the 1953 summer series of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts.

Constance Shacklock (contralto)

BBC Symphony Orchestra

(Leader, Paul Beard)

Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent

Introduced by Alvar Lidell.

March: Pomp and Circumstance No. 1. in D - Elgar

Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell - Benjamin Britten

Rule, Britannia - Arne-Sargent

Jerusalem - Parry

(Constance Shacklock appears by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)

The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival.  The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and in recent years has explored an innovative series of Proms around the UK with concerts in all four nations. Its aim: to bring the best in classical music to the widest possible audience, which remains true to founder-conductor Henry Wood’s original vision in 1895.  Whether you are a classical connoisseur or think classical music isn’t for you, there is something for everyone in the eight-week stretch of concerts.

First Night of the Proms

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