I Love Going to Concerts

@UnrestrictedHappy Sir Andrew Davis conducting....

Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (orch. Henry Wood)
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus'
William Walton
Belshazzar's Feast
Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky
Colas Breugnon, Op 24
Overture
Paul Creston
Concertino for Marimba, Op 21 (orchestral version)
No. 1 Vigorous
Concertino for Marimba, Op 21 (orchestral version)
No. 3 Lively
Hector Berlioz
The damnation of Faust - Marche hongroise
Jules Massenet
Thaïs
Intermezzo 'Meditation' Act 2 Scene 2
Percy Grainger
Handel in the Strand (arr. Henry Wood)
Edward Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D major, 'Land of Hope and Glory'
Henry Wood
Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
No. 5 Jack's the Lad
Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
No. 6 Farewell and Adieu, Ye Spanish Ladies - Cadenza
Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
No. 7 Home, Sweet Home
Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
No. 3 The Saucy Arethusa
Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
No. 4 Tom Bowling
Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
No. 8 See, the Conquering Hero Comes
Fantasia on British Sea-Songs
No. 1 Bugle Calls
Thomas Arne
Rule, Britannia!
Hubert Parry
Jerusalem

@Lhayezee Thanks for explaining.

Is there a Dresscode?

@Mugin16 No that's part of the beauty of it :) The Proms were designed from the outset over 100 years ago to be very 'accessible' (to use a modern word which I hate, but you know what I mean lol)...one of the reason the tickets tend to be pretty inexpensive too (the cheapest tickets are 'promenade' tickets where you are standing where the stalls usually are...swapping what is usually one of the more expensive areas to make it cheap). I mean some people dress up sure but plenty just go in jeans and a tshirt as well. I wouldn't say it's ok to go in your pyjamas but smart-casual is perfectly fine :)

@Lhayezee That's very good. It encourages people to attend who normally would not attend such concerts.

@Prisoner69 Because live music has an unpredictable quality to it that lossless music frankly has lost. I don't want a repeat performance of say Beethoven's 9th every time I put Leonard Bernstein's Berlin Wall concert on...I want something new with a new orchestra or band, a new conductor, new musicians. If all we do is listen to a digital simulacrum of real music...music dies. It's not a consumable product like a car. it's something that's meant to touch your soul

@Lhayezee great answer. I'm impressed.