The BBC has introduced that, following the loss of life of Queen Elizabeth II, this yr’s Final Night time of the Proms will not happen. Equally, tonight’s BBC Promenade has additionally been cancelled.
The normal closing occasion of the BBC Proms was as a result of happen on the Royal Albert Corridor at 7.15pm on Saturday and would have been broadcast on each BBC TV and Radio 3. Carried out by Dalia Stasevska, it might have featured soprano Lise Davidsen and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason as soloists. Stasevska performed the Final Night time in 2020 which, within the midst of the Covid pandemic, came about in an empty corridor.
Tonight’s Promenade would have seen the Philadelphia Orchestra carry out works by Rachmaninov, Chausson, Saint-Saëns and Value, performed by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The identical orchestra’s Promenade yesterday was curtailed to only a efficiency of Elgar’s ‘Nimrod’ and the Nationwide Anthem.
Although in each 1997 and 2001, the programme of the Final Night time of the Proms was altered to replicate latest tragic information occasions, on this event the choice was taken to cancel the occasion completely as a mark of respect.
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