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Audiences should be more relaxed about mobile phone use, says BBC Proms boss

The BBC Proms boss’s comments follows Olivier-winning actress Lesley Manville’s assertion that smartphone use during curtain call was ‘insulting’

The Independent UK

The Best of the 2025 BBC Proms: 20 picks, from Chineke! to Mozart

As the Proms head back to London, another season of music variety beckons. Nick Kimberley picks out the ones worth grabbing tickets for

Evening Standard

Daniel Barenboim: Pianist and conductor, 82, reveals Parkinson’s disease diagnosis

Daniel Barenboim, 82, says he is ‘planning to maintain as many of my professional commitments as my health permits’

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BBC pulls peace advert from Proms programme for Britten’s War Requiem performance

Exclusive: Peace Pledge Union said text explaining Benjamin Britten’s pacifist beliefs has been pulled from Proms programme

The Independent UK

‘We’re going to blame the women, not our sexism’: bias holding back top female pianists

Discrimination and bias in classical music are denying women opportunities at festivals, venues and in recordings, research finds

The Guardian - UK

BBC Proms director David Pickard to step down after nine years

Pickard will leave post after next summer’s classical music festival and says it feels like right time to go

The Guardian - UK

BBC Proms director David Pickard to step down in 2024

David Pickard will step down as director of the BBC Proms, the corporation has announced.

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Proms conductor stepping back for ‘reflection and counselling’ after assault allegation

It is alleged Sir John Eliot Gardiner hit a bass musician who walked the wrong way off stage at a concert

Evening Standard

John Eliot Gardiner pulls out of BBC Proms after punching bass soloist

Conductor assaulted English singer backstage in France after reportedly telling him he had left podium on wrong side

The Guardian - UK

TikTok organist Anna Lapwood at the BBC Proms review: an entrancing performance from a one-woman orchestra

Lapwood deployed the organ’s entire range, from the merest whisper to stadium-rock pomp at full volume

Evening Standard

The BBC Proms fights for its future

Hurt by arts cuts, gender balance criticisms and a post-Brexit lack of musicians from Europe, this year’s event is rife with insecurity. But, says Opera Now’s editor Hattie Butterworth, there is also defiant innovation...

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