Proms 2018

[Stanley Stewart]

A morale booster to place an order for the 2018 PROMS brochure, £7 and
due for release on April 19th. The voice of the cuckoo heard in our land again!

[VodkaDilc]

A morale booster to place an order for the 2018 PROMS brochure, £7 and
due for release on April 19th. The voice of the cuckoo heard in our land again!

..but not such happy thoughts of a Saturday morning desperately jabbing at a computer.

As regards the cost, my earliest edition of the Proms Prospectus (1972) has no price marked; but the 1973 one cost 15p. Does anyone have an inflation calculator?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

As regards the cost, my earliest edition of the Proms Prospectus (1972) has no price marked; but the 1973 one cost 15p. Does anyone have an inflation calculator?

£1.71, according to online UK Inflation calculators.

(Can't post a link on this wretched Tablet - Googling summons up several such daemons!)

[Alison]

I have seen the old prospectus format (dad has kept all the old ones) - far more inviting, readable and interesting as well as a lot cheaper! Easier to grasp the season, somehow!

[Stanley Stewart]

Indeed, VD, you recall the price of the 1972 Prospectus as 15p. Around this time, I remember
booking a complete Ring Cycle, Goodall/Mackerras, for £15 in the ENO Balcony, Row C - time
came to a standstill for several days. Andrew Porter's German text with English translation,
a handsome edition still on my shelves was published @ £4.80p, 329p.

[Stanley Stewart]

Correction with apologies. I've just been browsing my AP translation and note that he referred
to the 1977 cycle in his signed copy; a lunchtime 'do' at the Coli! Heavens, I must have
seen several complete cycles in the 70s.

[Barbirollians]

Usually by now some of the touring orchestras websites will have let the cat out of the bag about playing at the Proms - anyone seen any advance info this year ?

[Petrushka]

I have seen the old prospectus format (dad has kept all the old ones) - far more inviting, readable and interesting as well as a lot cheaper! Easier to grasp the season, somehow!

I've got every Proms Prospectus/Guide since 1971. In those days they didn't exactly go for the deluxe look weighed down with articles and masses of adverts, hence the cheaper price I'd guess, but they gave you all you needed to know.

[Alison]

I've got every Proms Prospectus/Guide since 1971. In those days they didn't exactly go for the deluxe look weighed down with articles and masses of adverts, hence the cheaper price I'd guess, but they gave you all you needed to know.

[HighlandDougie]

Usually by now some of the touring orchestras websites will have let the cat out of the bag about playing at the Proms - anyone seen any advance info this year ?

If only because I've been looking wistfully at the Summer Lucerne Festival programme (at those prices, I can but dream), I see that the Boston Symphony is appearing as part of a September 2018 European Tour. The web is maddeningly free of any further info but the Proms seem possible, sometime from 2 September onwards. Two good programmes, both conducted by Andris Nelsons: DSCH 4 & Bernstein's Serenade (with Baiba Skride); Mahler 3 (with Susan Graham). As well as Lucerne, they'll also be playing in Leipzig.

[bluestateprommer]

If only because I've been looking wistfully at the Summer Lucerne Festival programme (at those prices, I can but dream), I see that the Boston Symphony is appearing as part of a September 2018 European Tour. The web is maddeningly free of any further info but the Proms seem possible, sometime from 2 September onwards. Two good programmes, both conducted by Andris Nelsons: DSCH 4 & Bernstein's Serenade (with Baiba Skride); Mahler 3 (with Susan Graham). As well as Lucerne, they'll also be playing in Leipzig.

I had the same general thought, namely because if only on the basis of last year, Lucerne was a much better predictor of visiting orchestras to The Proms compared to Edinburgh. 4 ensembles featured at the 2017 Lucerne Festival summer series also featured at the 2017 Proms. For 2018, besides the Boston SO that HD mentioned, the other visiting orchestras to Lucerne who did not play The Proms last year, and are thus the most likely for also going to the 2018 Proms, are:

1. WEDO / Barenboim
2. Berlin Phil / K. Petrenko
3. Rotterdam PO / YNS
4. Munich Phil / Gergiev
5. St. Petersburg Phil / Temirkanov

While I have a habit of making incorrect predictions, the most likely attendees look to be WEDO and the Munich Phil, since it's pretty much a given that Barenboim and Gergiev each get a Proms date each season. However, I can certainly see Boston getting a date, maybe even two, with perhaps Mahler 3 as "the real Last Night" on September 7. I can also rationalize the Rotterdam Phil getting a date, because they haven't been to The Proms in several years and this is YNS' final season as their chief conductor.

The only sure thing for programming now looks to be the Anna Meredith work Five Telegrams, which is to be presented both at The Proms and the EIF:

https://www.1418now.org.uk/commissions/five-telegrams/

[Beef Oven!]

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Valery Gergiev and Kirill Petrenko are must-sees as far as I'm concerned.

[Barbirollians]

One thing I would love to see is Beethoven 9 returning to the penultimate night of the season.

[Hornbill]

..but not such happy thoughts of a Saturday morning desperately jabbing at a computer.

As regards the cost, my earliest edition of the Proms Prospectus (1972) has no price marked; but the 1973 one cost 15p. Does anyone have an inflation calculator?

I agree the annual Saturday morning ritual is quite a trial though it has not been as traumatic in the last couple of years. They do seem to have got their act together.

Does anyone know exactly which Saturday the online bookings will open?

[french frank]

Does anyone know exactly which Saturday the online bookings will open?

These were the 2017 dates. Can it be worked out from that?

https://www.royalalberthall.com/about-the-hall/news/2017/april/the-bbc-proms-season-has-been-announced-but-how-do-i-buy-tickets/