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At the Proms, 1958 Is Busting Out All Overby Zoe Strimpel
Somehow, it's Proms time again. The biggest classical music festival in the world has kicked off with fanfare: a week of sell-outs and near sell-outs, and the same electric atmosphere at the Royal Albert Hall. That the punters have been crowding in for their fix of Strauss, Elliot Carter, and Brahms shows classical music in Britain is in fine fettle — one in the eye of the doom-mongers who say it's all gone down the tubes in favor of thumping bass lines. Roger Wright, director of the Proms, has chosen the program along the lines of the year 1958: when the beloved British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams died. Several of that year's programs are being replicated this season, and all five Rachmaninoff piano concertos are being played, as they were for the last time at the Proms 50 years ago. Sure beats recent Proms themes, which have included Shakespeare, water, and theater.
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