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Bigger and bolder - 112th Season of Â鶹Éç Proms opens on Friday
14 July - 9 September 2006
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With a record 90 concerts packed into 58 days, the 2006 Â鶹Éç Proms season opens
on Friday at London's Royal Albert Hall with a concert featuring the Â鶹Éç
Symphony Orchestra's new Chief Conductor, Jirà Belohlávek, and singing legends
Barbara Frittoli and Sir John Tomlinson.
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Broadcast live on Â鶹Éç TWO and Â鶹Éç Radio 3,
the First Night is heralded by a day of live music in Trafalgar Square
culminating in a big screen showing of the Royal Albert Hall concert.
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For the
first time, music lovers can watch the First Night again for up to seven days
after the broadcast, via Â鶹Éç TWO's new broadband site at bbc.co.uk/bbctwo.
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The 2006 Â鶹Éç Proms season features the traditional mixture of great music,
artists and events, including birthday celebrations for Mozart and Shostakovich,
an 80th birthday concert for Her Majesty the Queen, a day devoted to The Voice
and the world premiere of Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No.6.
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Many of the
world's outstanding orchestras make an appearance including the Berlin
Philharmonic with Sir Simon Rattle, the Philadelphia Orchestra with Sir Andrew
Davis and Kirov Opera with Valery Gergiev joined by the world's leading
soloists, among them Bryn Terfel, Angela Georghiou, Joshua Bell, Evgeny Kissin and Maxim Vengerov.
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Since 1895 the Proms has been about making the best music available to all;
informing, educating and entertaining the widest possible audience, and
championing new music, composers and artists.
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It is widely regarded as the
world's greatest music festival, and more than 320,000 are expected to attend
a Proms event with millions more watching and listening on Â鶹Éç TV, radio and
online.
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More performances and comprehensive information services are available across
multiple media platforms.
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Â鶹Éç ONE and TWO broadcast ten Proms between them, and - for the first time - Â鶹Éç TWO makes the First Night available to watch again
for seven days after the broadcast.
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Â鶹Éç FOUR shows the final three weeks of the
season with live concerts each evening from Sunday to Friday.
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Each Prom is live
on Radio 3 and available to Listen Again for seven days after broadcast at
bbc.co.uk/radio3.
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bbc.co.uk/proms continues to offer the best source of
news and up-to-date information about the season.
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The price of a Promming ticket - the on-the-day standing tickets which have
given the Â鶹Éç Proms their name - is just £5.
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