The Proms to go ahead this summer, but 'not as we know them'

World’s biggest classical music festival hopes to offer some live concerts at Royal Albert Hall

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There will be Prom concerts this summer but not as we know them and, given there may well be no live audiences and no full orchestras, they are the great Proms gamble.

The organisers of the world’s biggest classical music festival have revealed details of their 2020 plans, which will consist of six weeks of concerts from the archives. They hope to follow this with a fortnight of live music and “a rousing last night” from the Royal Albert Hall in London.

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from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/3dl9ZKA