Proms news: Roxanna rules the airwaves!
It's the Proms launch today and the great news is that the Last Night commission goes to our very own Roxanna Panufnik! Roxanna rules the waves She is writing a choral piece, Songs of Darkness, Dreams of Light , for the combined forces of the BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC Singers involving a poem by the World War I poet Isaac Rosenberg and lines from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. Today's tension is reduced, of course, by the fact that the whole programme went online at 7am, so there will be no repeat of the little adrenaline rush that accompanied the opening of the nice fat brochure at the press briefing, let alone of the time I teared up there on seeing the words KORNGOLD SYMPHONY on a Proms page for the first time ever. Everyone is tweeting their highlights and I've had a quick zip through the website to see what jumps out. No doubt I will have missed plenty, so please forgive me if your favourite concert does not appear in this post... For opening night there is another n...