Table of Contents

Preface; The Proms: An Industrious Revolution by Paul Kildea; Building an Orchestra, Creating an Audience: Robert Newman and the Queen's Hall Promenade Concerts, 1895 - 1926 by Leanne Langley; A New Dimension - the BBC Takes on the Proms, 1920 - 44 by Jenny Doctor; The BBC in Possession, 1945 - 59 by Alison Garnham; Reinventing the Proms: The Glock and Ponsonby Eras, 1959 - 85 by David Wright; Joining the Queue: the Proms Audiences by Ivan Hewett; The Postmodern Proms, 1896 - 2007 by Tom Service; Planning the Proms Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow by Nicholas Kenyon.

About the Author

Jenny Doctor is a Visiting Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of York. She is the author of The BBC and Ultra-Modern Music, 1922 - 36: Shaping a Nation's Tastes. David Wright is Reader in the Centre for Performance History at the Royal College of Music. Nicholas Kenyon has been director of the BBC Proms since 1996. He was a music critic for the New Yorker, The Times and the Observer, and is the author of a history of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, among other books.