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Toronto Summer Music Festival gleefully salutes a beloved London concert tradition: the Last Night of the Proms. Revered conductor Sir Henry Wood launched the annual summertime Promenade Concerts in 1895 and conducted them virtually until his death nearly 50 years later. Running eight weeks and presenting some 100 events, they now make up the world’s largest music festival. The ‘Proms’ are serious events, regularly presenting and premiering contemporary music, until the last night, which is anything but serious as audience members sing, cheer, and clap along. Boris Brott conducts the National Academy Orchestra of Canada in a program of British musical favourites including Elgar’s Pomp & Circumstance, Parry’s Jerusalem, Arne’s Rule, Britannia! with mezzo-soprano Allyson McHardy and Vaughan Williams’ Lark Ascending featuring violinist Jonathan Crow.
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