I've filled in the Forum Calendar with the scheduled R3 relays of past Proms for this 2020 summer Proms season, for anyone who wants to take a look. Compared to past years, there was much more manual searching, to look through the Proms Archive for the respective links, as opposed to simply toggling between the BBC Proms' and RAH's pages. Obviously the scheduled live events are in limbo, aside from a very cursory entry for The Last Night, since details like the exact programs and artists for each day aren't yet public, at least AFAICT. So the Forum Calendar is a "living document", in that I will try to update later events as details become available.
For what is there now, here are salient features, INPO:
1. Each page has a link to its entry in the Proms Performance Archive. This admittedly may be of minimal interest.
2. I have included links to each R3 entry for the actual date of performance, so that you can get to it if you didn't hear it on the day and want to listen later. Not all of the scheduled concerts have such R3 links. I will update those as I see them become available.
3. As usual, I don't include running times of works, as my own personal quirk.
4. I've included a few quick "blink and you'll miss 'em" comments on some of the rebroadcasts where semi-appropriate, e.g. mentioning that the Sondheim Prom, originally part of his 80th birthday celebrations, now does the same in his 90th year.
5. For the most part, blank lines indicate the intervals. Exceptions are in the Proms Chamber Music / PCM / Proms at...Cadogan Hall concerts, which obviously had no interval, but where I judged that placing occasional blank lines in longer lists of works was more visually appealing.
6. The other particular personal quirk is that I've numbered each of the Proms rebroadcasts with the phrase "Archival Proms (#)", which is my own choice and obviously has no official sanction from the BBC Proms or anyone else. It turns out that the total number of Archival Proms, if my counting is correct, is 74. 74 is a typical number of total Proms in recent years, which have hovered in the mid-70 range.
The one advantage that I see of the Forum Calendar entries is that it provides a one-stop-shop where you can click through to the information on any of the Proms rebroadcasts of interest. It also captures, where the BBC Proms' own "one-stop-shop" page does not, the one week of Afternoon on 3 rebroadcasts during the first full week of Proms rebroadcasts this month. I must thank Andrew Slater for pointing out this Afternoon on 3 facet in his comments on his one-pager, since I was so fixated on looking through the standard mid-day and evening entries that it never occurred to me that Afternoon on 3 might feature some rebroadcasts as well.
If anything strikes anyone as too off-the-wall, or even just plain wrong, feel free to let me know and I can rework things.
(PS: While obviously there's nothing from the EIF this summer to include in the calendar, the next best thing, speaking of Scotland, is the four Lunchtime Concert live relays scheduled from City Halls, Glasgow, starting on Tuesday. Those are in the Forum Calendar as well.)
For what is there now, here are salient features, INPO:
1. Each page has a link to its entry in the Proms Performance Archive. This admittedly may be of minimal interest.
2. I have included links to each R3 entry for the actual date of performance, so that you can get to it if you didn't hear it on the day and want to listen later. Not all of the scheduled concerts have such R3 links. I will update those as I see them become available.
3. As usual, I don't include running times of works, as my own personal quirk.
4. I've included a few quick "blink and you'll miss 'em" comments on some of the rebroadcasts where semi-appropriate, e.g. mentioning that the Sondheim Prom, originally part of his 80th birthday celebrations, now does the same in his 90th year.
5. For the most part, blank lines indicate the intervals. Exceptions are in the Proms Chamber Music / PCM / Proms at...Cadogan Hall concerts, which obviously had no interval, but where I judged that placing occasional blank lines in longer lists of works was more visually appealing.
6. The other particular personal quirk is that I've numbered each of the Proms rebroadcasts with the phrase "Archival Proms (#)", which is my own choice and obviously has no official sanction from the BBC Proms or anyone else. It turns out that the total number of Archival Proms, if my counting is correct, is 74. 74 is a typical number of total Proms in recent years, which have hovered in the mid-70 range.
The one advantage that I see of the Forum Calendar entries is that it provides a one-stop-shop where you can click through to the information on any of the Proms rebroadcasts of interest. It also captures, where the BBC Proms' own "one-stop-shop" page does not, the one week of Afternoon on 3 rebroadcasts during the first full week of Proms rebroadcasts this month. I must thank Andrew Slater for pointing out this Afternoon on 3 facet in his comments on his one-pager, since I was so fixated on looking through the standard mid-day and evening entries that it never occurred to me that Afternoon on 3 might feature some rebroadcasts as well.
If anything strikes anyone as too off-the-wall, or even just plain wrong, feel free to let me know and I can rework things.
(PS: While obviously there's nothing from the EIF this summer to include in the calendar, the next best thing, speaking of Scotland, is the four Lunchtime Concert live relays scheduled from City Halls, Glasgow, starting on Tuesday. Those are in the Forum Calendar as well.)
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