Broadcast on TV tonight Friday 14 September 2024. From the Royal Albert Hall. If you are a subscriber you can watch it live. Or later on the iplayer.
See aerial views of the Orchestra, choir, soloists. The conductor is wearing his colourful Union Jack flag shirt. And the audience have luminous wristbands.
Hear lots of old favourite British songs, English Welsh. Scottish, Irish, and the soloist Angela Blue singing in English as well as Spanish. She was dressed in a blue dress. She threw flowers to the audience, singing a song about treasuring a a flower thrown to her by her lover.
Well-known songs include Rule Brittania, Gaudeamus igitur (Latin). Subtitles to the songs enable you to sing along and follow the words in Englsih.
What was on the 2024 programme? Sea songs and folk songs.
Land of hope and glory, Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance. The audience waving flags.
Ten months from now the 2025 two-month season of promenade concerts starts.
At the end you see a close up of the bust of Sir Henry Wood, the conductior who held these promenade concerts every year for decades. The concerts were originally held in a hall which was bombed in WW2. Then the venue was changed to the Royal Albrt Hall, which is huge.
Other favourite songs are Jerusalem, which is not about Jerusalem, but hopes for building a heavenly England in the future.
You might think that the last song would be God ave the King. But that was the penultimate song. The last song was the internationally known Auld Lang Syne.
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A Previous year's concert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5uiVoZTBN0
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