I've filled in the Forum Calendar with entries for the 2023 Proms, along with speculative (vide infra) entries for the 15 Radio 3 relays from this summer's Edinburgh International Festival. The formula is pretty set, with a few tweaks. For starters, the same general situations apply now as in past years:
* Not all the details are complete on all of the Proms concerts, particularly the more crossover Proms. I'll add those missing details later as I learn about them.
* As always, while Andrew Slater remains tech-savvy and code-savvy, I am the complete opposite in my "digital hand-crafted approach". I don't do a simple copy-and-paste, but adjust the (initially copied-and-pasted) text to fit what I think looks good visually, and hopefully presents clearly.
Even w/o any Google Analytics data, I generally still realize that Andrew S.'s files will always get much, much more on-line traffic compared to the Forum Calendar. But our two different approaches complement each other, IMHO, so we have all bases covered.
For the most part, my formula remains pretty much the same as with past years, with various tweaks and standard bsp-esque quirks. Diving into the weeds, as usual:
(A) The Proms
* Hyperlinks out to the BBC Proms' and RAH's webpages for each concert at the RAH are present for each listing.
* For the "Proms at" series of concerts around the UK outside of London, I have included hyperlinks to those events where I've found them so far (e.g. Sage Gateshead, Truro/Hall for Cornwall). I also have included the address for each of those non-London venues.
* In general, a blank line indicates the interval. The few exceptions are where the repertoire lists are so long, such as with many shorter works on the program, that a blank line after each selection makes the presentation less visually cluttered (e.g. Stile Antico, the Benjamin Grosvenor solo recital on the first weekend). In those cases, where the concert includes an interval, I have put two blank lines to indicate the interval. Likewise in those cases, I have put two blank lines between the final work on the concert and the artist's name.
* As usual, I omit works' running times.
* I use personal judgment (whether wisely or not, will let you decide) in whether to include the "blurbier" / "catchier" official BBC Proms titles in the summary header. One such change is the "Max Richter: Recomposed" title on Prom 68, where I simply chose "Recomposed", since the idea also applies to Lera Auerbach and Michael Tippett also, in their ways. Also, for Prom 69, the Mozart Requiem Prom, I added the term "Re-imagined", just on my own. Obviously none of my changes like that have any official sanction from the BBC or the RAH.
* Since six Proms are featured at Sage Gateshead, I have added numbers to each of the "Proms at Sage Gateshead" listings. As above, this is my choice, and not that of the BBC.
* From searching the Proms Performance Archive, I've noted "Proms debut artist" and "Proms debut ensemble" for artists, and "first performance at The Proms" for works, where appropriate. Compositions that are world / UK / London premieres clearly don't require that designation.
* As in previous years, I have spelled out female composers in the summary header by full first and last names. (The mild exceptions are to spell out Felix Mendelssohn in the header and the calendar listing, and to say "R. Schumann" in the header and Robert Schumann in the appropriate listing.)
* Again with the intuitively obvious, I've included first initials where appropriate, either with a commonplace last name (e.g. Smith, Jones) or multiple artists with more unique last names (e.g. Mark Wigglesworth / Ryan Wigglesworth, Nardus Williams / Roderick Williams).
* I will update incomplete programs once more details become available, very likely following Andrew Slater's lead, as his tech- and code-savviness allow him to update his one-pagers and pdf's much faster than me. Likewise, inevitable (and unpredictable) cancellations and artist(s) changes will occur, because of illness (COVID-19 and otherwise) and perhaps visa/travel issues.
* I will also continue retro-addition of encores, to allow the Forum Calendar to serve as an concert program archive, as each Forum Calendar entry immediately dates once the Prom in question starts.
(B) Edinburgh International Festival
As before with making the EIF Forum Calendar entries now, I'm on not quite-fully solid ground as to which 15 concerts will be the selected concerts, since the official EIF 2023 brochure does not spell out which 15 concerts are to be relayed on R3, besides the general statement that R3 offers:
However, it's a pretty reasonable educated guess, based on past history, that the 15 EIF concerts in August on R3 will be the Queen's Hall concerts at 11 AM from Monday to Friday the weeks of August 7, 14, and 21. So I've gone with those for now. Not all the details on full program(me)s of each of those concert are present, but things will become clearer closer to the dates. The only hyperlinks out now are to the EIF pages on each concert. I may well add the R3 link for each broadcast relay when those become available.
The usual standard closing disclaimer applies, namely that I may have introduced new errors into the data entries, for which I take full responsibility. I'll correct any errors as I find them, along with other information updates. In the meantime, feel free to have a look, and be amused / appalled / bemused / whatever at what you see :) .
* Not all the details are complete on all of the Proms concerts, particularly the more crossover Proms. I'll add those missing details later as I learn about them.
* As always, while Andrew Slater remains tech-savvy and code-savvy, I am the complete opposite in my "digital hand-crafted approach". I don't do a simple copy-and-paste, but adjust the (initially copied-and-pasted) text to fit what I think looks good visually, and hopefully presents clearly.
Even w/o any Google Analytics data, I generally still realize that Andrew S.'s files will always get much, much more on-line traffic compared to the Forum Calendar. But our two different approaches complement each other, IMHO, so we have all bases covered.
For the most part, my formula remains pretty much the same as with past years, with various tweaks and standard bsp-esque quirks. Diving into the weeds, as usual:
(A) The Proms
* Hyperlinks out to the BBC Proms' and RAH's webpages for each concert at the RAH are present for each listing.
* For the "Proms at" series of concerts around the UK outside of London, I have included hyperlinks to those events where I've found them so far (e.g. Sage Gateshead, Truro/Hall for Cornwall). I also have included the address for each of those non-London venues.
* In general, a blank line indicates the interval. The few exceptions are where the repertoire lists are so long, such as with many shorter works on the program, that a blank line after each selection makes the presentation less visually cluttered (e.g. Stile Antico, the Benjamin Grosvenor solo recital on the first weekend). In those cases, where the concert includes an interval, I have put two blank lines to indicate the interval. Likewise in those cases, I have put two blank lines between the final work on the concert and the artist's name.
* As usual, I omit works' running times.
* I use personal judgment (whether wisely or not, will let you decide) in whether to include the "blurbier" / "catchier" official BBC Proms titles in the summary header. One such change is the "Max Richter: Recomposed" title on Prom 68, where I simply chose "Recomposed", since the idea also applies to Lera Auerbach and Michael Tippett also, in their ways. Also, for Prom 69, the Mozart Requiem Prom, I added the term "Re-imagined", just on my own. Obviously none of my changes like that have any official sanction from the BBC or the RAH.
* Since six Proms are featured at Sage Gateshead, I have added numbers to each of the "Proms at Sage Gateshead" listings. As above, this is my choice, and not that of the BBC.
* From searching the Proms Performance Archive, I've noted "Proms debut artist" and "Proms debut ensemble" for artists, and "first performance at The Proms" for works, where appropriate. Compositions that are world / UK / London premieres clearly don't require that designation.
* As in previous years, I have spelled out female composers in the summary header by full first and last names. (The mild exceptions are to spell out Felix Mendelssohn in the header and the calendar listing, and to say "R. Schumann" in the header and Robert Schumann in the appropriate listing.)
* Again with the intuitively obvious, I've included first initials where appropriate, either with a commonplace last name (e.g. Smith, Jones) or multiple artists with more unique last names (e.g. Mark Wigglesworth / Ryan Wigglesworth, Nardus Williams / Roderick Williams).
* I will update incomplete programs once more details become available, very likely following Andrew Slater's lead, as his tech- and code-savviness allow him to update his one-pagers and pdf's much faster than me. Likewise, inevitable (and unpredictable) cancellations and artist(s) changes will occur, because of illness (COVID-19 and otherwise) and perhaps visa/travel issues.
* I will also continue retro-addition of encores, to allow the Forum Calendar to serve as an concert program archive, as each Forum Calendar entry immediately dates once the Prom in question starts.
(B) Edinburgh International Festival
As before with making the EIF Forum Calendar entries now, I'm on not quite-fully solid ground as to which 15 concerts will be the selected concerts, since the official EIF 2023 brochure does not spell out which 15 concerts are to be relayed on R3, besides the general statement that R3 offers:
"As an official partner, BBC Radio 3 makes a number of the International Festival's music offerings available through a series of broadcasts from The Queen's Hall and Usher Hall.
The station offers audiences across the UK and beyond the chance to concerts on BBC Radio 3 during August and on BBC Sounds for 30 days following the broadcast."
The station offers audiences across the UK and beyond the chance to concerts on BBC Radio 3 during August and on BBC Sounds for 30 days following the broadcast."
The usual standard closing disclaimer applies, namely that I may have introduced new errors into the data entries, for which I take full responsibility. I'll correct any errors as I find them, along with other information updates. In the meantime, feel free to have a look, and be amused / appalled / bemused / whatever at what you see :) .
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