Showing posts with label BBC Proms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBC Proms. Show all posts

Thursday, 9 September 2010

Marketing classical music

How can the classical music industry reach new audiences? Jon Jacob speaks to marketeers from three London orchestras and writer and broadcaster Tom Service to find out, in an interesting discussion from the BBC Proms background series on YouTube.

Thursday, 8 July 2010

BBC Proms Archive

Check out the newly launched Proms Archive, which you can search by composer, work or artist. My first discovery is that an aria from the work we are doing in Edinburgh next month was first performed in the Proms in 1897:

Wednesday 29 September 1897, 8:00PM

Henry Purcell Indian Queen, Z 630

- Aria 'I attempt from Love's sickness to fly in vain' Act 3

Hirwen Jones tenor


New Queen's Hall Orchestra (1895-1914, Queen's Hall Orchestra)
Henry Wood conductor