Re-creation of 1910 Last Night to be included in Proms festival, which this year features Plácido Domingo Not content with one evening of flag-waving and a hearty chorus of Rule Britannia, the BBC is this year mounting two Last Nights of the Proms. One is actually on the last night of the festival, 11 September, and, as usual, features Land of Hope and Glory, Rule, Britannia! and Jerusalem. There is also a premiere by the British composer Jonathan Dove and a star turn from the American soprano Renée Fleming. The other is a re-creation of the Last Night of the Proms of 1910. The free concert on 5 September includes Rule, Britannia!, but none of the other nationalist songs now regarded as immutable Proms traditions. Instead, there's Wagner's Flying Dutchman overture, Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No 4 (rather than March No 1, which includes Land of Hope and Glory) and a host of short works, including a song called Mifanwy by the then wildly popular but now all but forgotten ...
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