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Last night of the proms is great and it's even more special for me because its always either on or very near my birthday. Next reactions could be Jerusalem and I vow to thee my country.
I'm Norwegian. Canada's very own national anthem is the most beautiful one I've ever heard. I agree with the Brits who think that Rule Britannia, Land of hope and glory or Israel should have been their national anthem. All three are all beautiful hymns. (Their national anthem is our King's song.)
My school used to have their Prize Giving ceremony at The Royal Albert Hall. One year, I was in the school Choir. In those days (1961) my school had schools all over the UK. All the school choirs got together to create a choir 250 strong, we were all seated under the huge Organ and behind the Orchestra .... which was The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by John Tobin. We sang quite a few songs but ... what will ALWAYS be ingrained on my memory was singing Jerusalem and Land of Hope and Glory. Even as a 13 year old, singing those iconic songs in The Royal Albert Hall with such a wonderful orchestra sent shivers down my spine ... something I will NEVER forget.
@@martinroper6692 I see no indication that he hated the lyrics. He was actually commissioned by the King to write a song for his coronation, and he used the same melody in his piece.
It is very important to remember that it is the LAST NIGHT of the Proms, usually about 75 concerts. The Promenaders attend a large number of concerts, with many holding Season Tickets which give admission to every concert. Many Promenaders travel from all over the world to stay in London for the season and the Last Night is very much the "end of term party" where the normally very quiet and attentive audience (many conductors and musicians mention the intense silence of the audience during performances) let their hair down and have a party to say farewell to each other until the next year. There is much horseplay, high-jinks and fun and many Promenaders wear evening dress for the occasion. I was a regular prommer for many years and did 10-12 Last Nights from the mid 1990s to 2011 and had a great time. Happy to answer any specific questions you may have, SoGal.
@@Shiltz Be lucky to find white faces in the crowd in a few years, but then they won't be playing or singing Pomp and Circumstance. Steel bands and rap instead. Greg Dyke, a former BBC Director-general would have called this performance as hideously white.
@@Shiltz I have never understood why people from other countries, except perhaps those of the Commonwealth, feel that they should wave their own flag at the singing of a strongly patriotic song of the United Kingdom. Many of these countries are not free nor do they have a lot of hope for the future. They should organise their own concerts in their own countries and sing their own patriotic ones.
As an Englishman, I really appreciate this type of content. It’s great seeing Americans enjoying British culture. As brits we are often exposed to American culture more often than you guys are exposed to ours, so it is great to see! 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸 Please also react to Jerusalem and God Save the Queen at the Proms!
Oh my sweet lord, Jerusalem gets me every time. Those words. Makes me proud to be English, not that I am not proud anyways. Just beautiful. How can language reach across time and touch the soul? Just stunning.
This is a reply to a guy’s deleted message That’s where you’re wrong bud. Britishness goes beyond religion or politics. You can be a patriotic British Muslim, a patriotic British Leftist. It’s a love for this country, it’s history, it’s scenery, it’s people, its communities and language that makes up Patriotism. ❤️🇬🇧❤️
When I hear this I'm so proud to be British. The song doesn't decry anyone else but sings of the good things that Britain stands for. All other countries are welcome to attend and fly their flags so if anyone has the sentiments of liberty and freedom they are welcome.
Brittain valuing liberty and freedom you must be jocking ! South Africa India Ireland One million dead in Iraque three million died whennthe potato crop failed in your nearest neighbours country part of which you still claim against all international opinion and while these Irish Brittish citizens starved to death watching their children try to eat grass and mud you were exporting food out of the country .The Brittish know as much about liberty and freedom as a cat knows about its father!
@@johnmilligan6605 I imagine you struggle to walk level with such a big chip on your shoulder Ps if it wasn't for Britain fighting for liberty and freedom you'd probably be talking in german now.
Not all are that's for sure. Some obviously like the Scottish nationalists aren"t, but even others who want bad things for the country if they can't get things their own way. You need patriotism when you get outside aggression. America is for sure more patriotic.
@@starrynight1657 Difference is America will welcome a legal new arrival & turn them into a flag waving patriot in 5 years . In the UK it is a stupid KOL test about really useless not relevent crap . My American wife had to answer questions about Shakespeare . And state the Monarch who reigned in 1750 . I get learning a Countries history is important . But so little of modern UK is included.
40 years ago when the local volleyball team of my Norwegian hometown Tromsø played the first European Cup match held in Tromsø, "Land of Hope and Glory" was used as a National Anthem for the English team on the other side of the net. Being familiar with The Last Night of the Proms we sang along with great gusto.
We Brits totally admire you proud Norwegians as you appreciate the UK. Norway gives the UK a Christmas Tree every year to honour our assistance during WW11. It is proudly displayed each year in Trafalgar Square. Love and best wishes from all Brits.
Funnily enough was invited to a large European gathering in another Scandinavian country, at the end of the party Land of hope and glory was played us few Brits were quiet.Looking at the organisers who had other reasons for their choice in music had large smiles. Memories of past times will not be forgotten.
I agree, Ian. I love the other options but, of course, Jerusalem refers specifically to England. Contrary to the wiki comment about 'Land of Hope and Glory', I've only ever heard Jerusalem used in rugby and the Commonwealth Games
I agree about Herysalem but LOHAG would be ideal for Football and it WAS the football Anthem in The 1980s but sadly, as a Royalist, they put the dreary GSTQ back on again, where it has remained ever since.
Of the first London performance, Henry Wood (the conductor) says in his autobiography that “the people simply rose and yelled. I had to play it again - with the same result; in fact, they refused to let me get on with the programme….merely to restore order, I played the march a third time.”
I agree with the suggestion of Jerusalem but would also like to know what the Americans would make of the Sea Shanties and the Sailor's Hornpipe. I love that bit as well.
I remember watching one year (many moons ago) when the conductor had decided to leave out the traditional songs that were usually sung on the Last Night. The audience were having none of it and he had to give in and let them have their way, so, the traditional Last Night songs were sung. The moral is do NOT mess with the last night. The BBC tried that during lock down and got a similar response from the public. The last night is the best, I just love it. I phoned my mum once (way back in the 1980s) and told her I was watching the Last Night, she and my step-dad were listening to it, in Germany. My German step-dad loved the Last Night of the proms as well.
Always love the last night. Understated and heavily downplayed patriotism is norm (we don't fly flags as a norm) but it is there, often well hidden beneath the surface - as the the odd MP discovers occasionally. But "last night" is really a let your hair down, and let it all hang out event.
I love your enthusiasm and it fills me with pride when you were singing a long to Land of Hope and Glory and to see you wanting to learn more about the history of how The Proms came to be. I have only ever watched it on TV but it is so colourful and I love spotting all the different flags. The atmosphere must be electric in the hall and in the park also. Thank you.
18:40 "Land of Hope and Glory" is just the "trio" section of the march. The fast intro and concluding coda have no lyrics :) Thanks for singing along, by the way. That was so sweet!
I love seeing a fellow American checking out music of other cultures, especially pieces like this but from a culturally curious nature, may them continue
My disappointment in myself is immeasurable and no words can adequately express my remorse regarding my inexcusable faux pas. I am mortified that I got to make such a Schoolboy error and I only try to crave your forgiveness for my brief moment of total complete and utter insanity in making this mistake. I have no excuses and I can only apologize, profusely, for my stupidity, once again. You are a good Woman for pointing this out to me. I'm inconsolable at the moment.....:(
...which is part of the "Fantasia on British Sea Songs" by Sir Henry Wood himself, of course - most of which is usually played at the Last Night of the Proms every year.
God Save The Queen is the UK national anthem, but for situations where several of the 4 nations compete as individual countries(e.g. Commonwealth games), they sometimes use separate anthems for England, Scotland, Wales and (Northern) Ireland.
Is there an anthem purely for England? I know the Irish have Ireland's Call, the Welsh have Land of my Fathers (usually sung in Welsh) and the Scots have The Flowers of the Forest. It seems the English have to put up with God Save the Queen which is really the national anthem of the whole of the UK not just England.
What I find interesting is that for a patriotic event, all the flags of other countries that are waved. Other than the English, Welsh, Scottish and Isle of Man flags, there were flags of the USA, Sweden, Ireland, France, Germany and probably others.
Elgar wrote five Pomp and Circumstance Marches, and a sixth was completed after his death from sketches he'd left. Land of Hope and Glory is March No.1. They're all well worth listening to. I really like No. 4 as well, which is here: ruclips.net/video/_5clRHSbiFw/видео.html
Even me, half Scottish - half Dutch. And I still love “the last night of the proms” it makes me forget that not I’m fully British. I would love to visit it once on said date as I’ve only heard, and seen it (digitally).
Enjoyed your reaction. I used to go to the Proms when I was younger - it is an incredible building. This is the one time in the year when the English actually act as though they are proud to be English. It is an outlet of patriotic feeling which we suppress a lot of the time.
As one of your biggest fans that was EXASPERATING as FINALLY @ 25.02, you saw the 50,000 in Hyde Park because if you weren't holding Scarlett down you were so busy learning the words you missed most of the really colourful scenes and I was SCREAMING out "LOOK AT THE VIDEO!! " :) especially when they showed the 50,000 FLAGS from the front several times earlier and EVERY time you had your head buried elsewhere learning the words. lol "2009" is A GREAT YEAR for this and it is on here:)
Another song you may like to watch which is traditionally played on the Last Night where we show us being rather silly is:- Hornpipe from Fantasia on British Sea Songs (Last Night of the Proms)
Thank you so much for your reaction to this beautiful tradition. I would love you to carry this forward with "Jerusalem" which continues the "Last Night". Make sure you have the lyrics, and then you can cry along with us Brits
So glad you did this, been watching the proms, for donkeys years. Rule Britania is about Britain, predates the Empire, is about the Royal Navy and us. Jacob Rees Mogg played it on his smartphone in the House of Commons, breaking the rules, speaker just laughed, no admonishment.
@@zaftra The song is about the battles against a Barbary Pirates who were take English people as slaves. The British replied by forming a fighting force, later called the Royal Navy to stop the attacks. They were successful
Oh I love the Last Night Of The Proms! My favourite is "The Fantasia On British Sea Songs". For a totally different concert at the Royal Albert Hall, do Creams' goodbye concert in 1968 - a definitive moment in British popular music. (You could also do the one off concert - also in the Royal Albert Hall - that they did in the mid 2000's, I think - almost as good as the original!). We must remember that both Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker are no longer with us (RIP), but Eric Clapton (for it is he) is very much still alive.
The music is 'Pomp and Circumstance' by Edward Elgar , the words for Land of Hope and Glory were added later by Elgar using lyrics from A.C. Benson. Elgar was not particularly fond of it with the added lyrics.
The words were added at the suggestion of King Edward VII himself. I The tune appears in its instrumental and vocal form in the Coronation Ode which Benson and Elgar wrote for the Coronation celebrations of 1902, though the words differ, partly because they refer specifically to the crowning. In some ways I prefer them: "Land of hope and glory, Mother of the free, How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee? Truth and Right and Freedom, each a holy gem, Stars of solemn brightness, weave thy diadem."
The music is correctly Sir Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No.1, not 'Land of Hope and Glory'. The words of the refrain 'Land of 'Hope and Glory' were written later by A.C. Benson.
One of my favourite things about the Last Night of the Proms is seeing all those flags, waved side by side, showing just how many good friends we have across the world. The only one I cannot bear to see is the EU flag.
@@helenwood8482 I wish we were still in the EU. Cameron called a referendum at the worst possible time and fears over immigration were high because of terrorism. It feels like a step backwards instead of a coming together of people. It solves nothing to now be cut off in so many ways. I always wanted Britain to be a part of the EU even though I have so many issues with some of the people running it. Our government was pretty bad at running the country before we joined and I think they will be pretty bad again hitting the poor hard and keeping the rich very rich. I am worried about our future right now. Hope things work themselves out for the better:)
While the Patriotic Songs section is clearly a paean to British patriotism, we also recognize and appreciate the patriotism that other people feel for their own countries. It doesn't have to be a competition, we can all be winners if we adopt the right attitude. I'm very happy to see the flags of many different nations, including Germany, being waved at the Last Night of the Proms. I once knew a French diplomat who sang his heart out to these British patriotic songs while simultaneously waving a French flag!
You have to go to 5 shows to be eligible for a ticket foe The Last Night (in the Albert hall, not if you want to attend the park). But there are afternoon and evening shows, every day, during 'the season'. So you could quite easily see 5 shows in 3 or four days, and they're not particularly expensive. Still it all adds up.
It's a little much to describe "Land of Hope and Glory" as a second national anthem. But there have been polls to find what song would make a good "national anthem" for England, considering that Wales and Scotland already have ones for themselves. The one that wins is always "Jerusalem," also known as "And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time." The lyrics are a poem by the famous William Blake. It also gets played (and sung!) at the Last Night at the Proms. By the way, I live in Vancouver, BC, and I've attended a Last Night concert, very similar to the London one but smaller scale, in the Orpheum Theatre here. The conductor had a custom-made waistcoat that was a Union Jack on one side and a Canadian flag on the other.
I don't know about Wales but Scotland's "national anthem" is unofficial. I think it would be a good idea if England had its own specific anthem rather than using "God Save the Queen/King". Especially at those sporting occasions when the "Home Nations" play each other in sporting competitions.
Jerusalem. Cracking song. My old school hymn. I still remember the music teacher at the time admonishing us all for not pronouncing chariot correctly. Well, we were all Lancashire lads, so what did he expect?
The song is Land of Hope and Glory. The music is Edward Elgar’s Pomp & Circumstance March Number 1 in D Major. The middle section contains the tune that the song was set to. A trio has three sections: a start, a middle, and then a repeat of the first part.
don't tell everyone, but for every Prom - including the Last Night - there's a queue that forms outside the RAH to get up into the gods (that's the gallery around the top, from which that amazing shot that you remarked upon of the whole interior was filmed). It used to be about a fiver per person when I went. I discovered it by accident in 2006, and got to the front of the queue just as they said 'only one more person' - and I couldn't really leave my girlfriend outside! Then had a more determined go in 2012 and got in for the Last Night. After watching it on tv for so many years it was truly epic to be in there, belting out the songs and trying to dodge whoever it was that was cutting onions...
A very late comment - this one passed me, until today! I was the wife of a serving soldier at this time, living in Germany. Last Night of the Proms was one of the few TV programmes broadcast live on BFBS (services TV) It was always wonderful and very patriotic. I love our national anthem, although I always tear up and am filled with national pride when I hear 'Jerusalem'.
I think Land of Hope & Glory should be the English national anthem 🙂 ( God save the Queen is the British one ); So Gal, did you notice the crowds in Hyde Park ?
And well change the pronouns...it still scans if you do that...but would sound a bit weird.....if there will be a monarch after the current one...that is a different question.
@@picaSapien Scotland and Wales have their own National Anthems on Sporting occasions , don't know about N. Ireland. Why can't England have their own, and play God Save the Queen when we compete as the UK ?
That made my eyes moisten up - so moving. Thanks for reacting to this, it makes me proud to be English, to be British. Well done on finding topics of interest to us as well!
The Last Night is different than the rest of the prom concerts and has a different song listing each year. However, the last 30 mins or so is always the same, Land of Hope and Glory, Rule Britannia, Jerusalem, The Hornpipe etc and is the big hit part of the show. So I might suggest watching the last 30 minutes if you get the chance.
14:50 Be careful not to confuse England with the UK! God Save the Queen is the official anthem of the UK, but England doesn't have a recognised official one (whereas Scotland, Wales and NI do). "Jerusalem" is often used for England specifically; if you react to the 2012 London Olympic opening ceremony, they have choirs singing that as well as those for the three other nations.
That's a great montage from the 2012 Olympics with local children singing the "anthems". Flower of Scotland, bread of heaven for the Welsh ( I hope I've got that right), oh Danny boy for Ireland ( note the Irish rugby team represents both northern Ireland and the Republic) and Jerusalem for England. I still have a cry and laugh when I watch that opening ceremony.
For a further British classical institution you can check out Glyndebourne, an opera festival held at it's namesake stately home. Also, do check out Dame Evelyn Glennie, a stunning percussionist who lost her hearing as a child. She has a fantastic story.
You are as good as gold ( a New Zealand phrase). As a British / New Zealander I really appreciate it and I loved the USA as well. We are all people of the world. Land of Hope and Glory was my first wife's favorite song. She died 25 years ago. I proposed to my second in Hawaii and she died 3 years years ago. So as a sad lonely only old man I felt it mt my duty to thank you.
Way to go SoGal, I'm enjoying all your input to RUclips. We are very different nations but we do have 'Ties that bind' and respect for one another cements the existing relationship further. Keep them coming!
In the course of my lifetime, the most famous conductor of the Proms, and particularly notable for underlining the commeraderie between the BBC Symphony Orchestra (which always plays the Last Night) and the Promenaders (the regular season audience) was Sir Malcolm Sargent. He was principal conductor of the Proms for 21 years, conducting his final Last Night (or at least the very end of that night, as he'd just had surgery) just two weeks before his death.
It is very popular in Japan. Or was a few years ago. Local promoters convinced the producers to take it to Japan. Flags were being sold and the Japanese audiences wanted British flags and not there own as this was the predominant flag they had seen on TV. It has since toured Australia and other countries.
I went to a couple of concerts a few years ago with my music class (at RAH but not the Proms) where this song was performed. Since quite a few of us only knew the words for the first couple of lines, we made up lyrics for the rest of the chorus so that we could still join in the singing
Directly across the road from the Royal Albert Hall is the Albert Memorial. One of many memorials in the country to Prince Albert. This was also the location of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and original site of The Crystal Palace constructed for the exhibition - later moved to South London where it was destroyed by a fire.
I always enjoy this. It's not our national anthem but it is a British anthem. The recording is inside the hall but there are another 70000 outside that are all watching and singing along creating an atmosphere.
So glad you referred to it as a British anthem (I would have preferred British patriotic song) rather than English. So many people forget that the UK is comprised of four countries, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
I like this new format where you review the Wiki page before you start, for the record. I remember first coming across the idea of American graduation ceremonies using "Pomp and Circumstance" in a Peanuts strip and found it absolutely bizarre! Also I liked how you started doing the shoulder motion even before knowing it was the done thing!
yes, it was a smart thing to do - however SoGal would do even better to read the Wiki pages in full earlier. After asking some pertinent questions, she then missed the actual answers further down the wiki even though we could see them on the screen (e.g. televised since 1953). I think she would gain more and be able to pass on more info and appreciation with a little more prep ;)
Wow, I haven't heard the entire Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in ages. It brought back so many fond memories of listening to classical records with my Dad, so thanks for that. Like you, I had no idea that the piece was such a big deal in the UK, or that it had lyrics. Other than an Elgar record, I only ever heard it at high school graduation.
Towards the end in a high shot of the orchestra you can just see a brown bust of a man. That is Sir Henry Wood,who gets a wreath around his head from the promenaders every year. I think Jerusalem would be a better anthem choice though. Done epically on the Last Night of course.
Its not really our second national anthem, God Save The Queen is our only national anthem. There are a few patriotic songs that are often sung at special occasions consisting of: Land of Hope and Glory, Rule Britannia, I Vow to Thee My Country and Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is the best patriotic song you have... It should maybe be considered as a national anthem for England since one Welshman told me that they have their own national anthem besides God save the king/queen...
@@srdjanvitorovic5795 God Save The Queen is my favourite, the others are better as songs but that one brings the most patriotic feeling. Its also the national anthem for Wales, Land of My Fathers is just a patriotic song and not an actual national anthem.
Lovely reaction. Thank you very much. I love two things about the last night of the proms is that it brings classical music to people who would not otherwise hear it. And It's one of the rare occasions that we Brits feel that we can express our patriotism, as you know we are quite self critical.
The noises you hear during these performances are "Party Poppers" - The audience always have streamers and party poppers. By the way, if you want to see how much fun the seasonal proms can be, check out Dr. Who at the proms.
If any of you "Johnny Foreigner " think the UK is asleep and fancy having a 'pop' at us, watch this, see the passion that the "Brits" have and think again... God made the Earth, but we built the World! "God save the Queen!"
Hi, the piece of music is titled Pomp and Circumstance March Number 1. Land of Hope and Glory is the vocal part of the music often particularly when performed on its own. Elgar wrote 5 Pomp and Circumstance Marches. Number 4 is good. The National Anthem of the United Kingdom is God Save The Queen or King. That is played at all official occasions or where a British team is taking part e.g. the Olympics. However in many sports the constituent nations of the UK compete individually, they all have their own anthems except England who still mostly use the UK national anthem. There has been talk about what England could use. At the Commonwealth Games England did use Land of Hope and Glory but it was changed to Jerusalem after a public vote. Jerusalem is also played before the England cricket team play. That is also a Last Night of the Proms favourite. The prom was first broadcast on radio in 1927 and on tv in 1947 although only the Last Night was televised. The orchestra at the Last Night is normally the BBC symphony orchestra. The Proms were originally held in the Queens Hall in Langham Place, which coincidentally was to become the neighbour of the BBC when it was formed. They were moved to the RAH during WW2 when the Queen's Hall was bombed. They then moved again later in the war amid concerns the RAH would be bombed. They moved to the Bedford Corn Exchange. After the war they moved back to the RAH where they still are. Can't actually find why the BBC ceased to fund them.
Yeah, the Pomp and circumstance March was written by Edward Elgar. His house is about 20 miles away from me, in Worcestershire, and there is a statue of the chap leaning on a bicycle outside our cathedral, here in Hereford. He used to cycle across for choir festivals and such things. His house is now a museum, it contains a lot of original manuscripts and other documents, artifacts, pictures of his life. The march is a much longer piece, they only play the climax at the last night of the proms. We sometime's hear the slower movement during royal and state occasions. It's all nice music, you should try the whole March, it'll be on you tube. Another well known work by Elgar is the Enigma variations. It's a piece divided into shorter sections, each one named or dedicated to a friend of his. The part called Nimrod is quite well known. Land of hope and glory is often used as the English anthem when there is a competition involving all the home nations playing separately. God save the queen is for Britain as a whole. She is monarch of the UK. So Wales, Scotland, Ireland, have their own anthems too. At the last night, there is a basket of songs which are always included. Rule Britannia is included in a selection of sea chanties and naval songs. Land of H & G of course, and Jerusalem is sung too. ( words by William Blake, music by Parry) it is often cited as a potential anthem too. Some people like the patriotic flag waving and songs, others find it slightly jingoistic and embarrassing . It generates a party atmosphere though.
Just been looking. March no 4 is the other movement I was struggling to identify. It's often used on special occasions. A little bit smoother and less brash than the no 1. ruclips.net/video/Qnuzwex55eI/видео.html
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There are much better videos out there that really take in the atmosphere of this song and the Last Night In general
Now you have to do the finale, jerusalem followed by God save the Queen
Not the national anthem... No matter what some people would like
The cracks are party poppers going off from the audience
Last night of the proms is great and it's even more special for me because its always either on or very near my birthday.
Next reactions could be Jerusalem and I vow to thee my country.
Oh how this makes me Proud to be British. Rule Britannia 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Same here pal, should be our national anthem
One of the few tunes that brings a tear to my eye every time it's played.
This is not a song you sing quietly or in a shy meek voice, this is a song you belt out with all tour heart
and it brings a proud tear to my eyes
Your heart.
Too right.. but, us Brits are noisy buggers .. odd how other countries think we’re reserved 🤣
Of course we sing this in Canada!! We’re part of the Commonwealth! Love it; great job.
You have a lovely country....,...as being English......,..a joy to to meet your people......,.
I'm Norwegian. Canada's very own national anthem is the most beautiful one I've ever heard. I agree with the Brits who think that Rule Britannia, Land of hope and glory or Israel should have been their national anthem. All three are all beautiful hymns. (Their national anthem is our King's song.)
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Im English and we love Canadians, you are our closest family and have always, always had our backs, thank you ❤❤❤
My school used to have their Prize Giving ceremony at The Royal Albert Hall. One year, I was in the school Choir. In those days (1961) my school had schools all over the UK. All the school choirs got together to create a choir 250 strong, we were all seated under the huge Organ and behind the Orchestra .... which was The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by John Tobin. We sang quite a few songs but ... what will ALWAYS be ingrained on my memory was singing Jerusalem and Land of Hope and Glory. Even as a 13 year old, singing those iconic songs in The Royal Albert Hall with such a wonderful orchestra sent shivers down my spine ... something I will NEVER forget.
Land of Hope and Glory was written by the best English composer ever, namely Sir Edward Elgar
So it can't be British then. Thank you.
@@jackdubz4247 England is in Great Britain, so definitely British.
I quite agree
It was only the music that Elgar wrote , The words were added much later and he hated it
@@martinroper6692 I see no indication that he hated the lyrics. He was actually commissioned by the King to write a song for his coronation, and he used the same melody in his piece.
I don't think there is anything, other than Jerusalem, that can send a shiver down the spine for us Brits.
Nimrod?
There will always be an England?
Oh, and Rule Britannia?
Both are great candidates for England's national anthem
Jerusalem is the money shot!
How bout the British Grenediers March?🇺🇸🦅🇬🇧
It is very important to remember that it is the LAST NIGHT of the Proms, usually about 75 concerts. The Promenaders attend a large number of concerts, with many holding Season Tickets which give admission to every concert. Many Promenaders travel from all over the world to stay in London for the season and the Last Night is very much the "end of term party" where the normally very quiet and attentive audience (many conductors and musicians mention the intense silence of the audience during performances) let their hair down and have a party to say farewell to each other until the next year. There is much horseplay, high-jinks and fun and many Promenaders wear evening dress for the occasion. I was a regular prommer for many years and did 10-12 Last Nights from the mid 1990s to 2011 and had a great time. Happy to answer any specific questions you may have, SoGal.
I always enjoy counting the different flags, it's surprising just how many there are and many travel every year to attend from their home countries.
@@MayYourGodGoWithYou you should've seen it this year. Pretty sure there were more EU flags than Union Jacks
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Be lucky to find white faces in the crowd in a few years, but then they won't be playing or singing Pomp and Circumstance. Steel bands and rap instead. Greg Dyke, a former BBC Director-general would have called this performance as hideously white.
@@wuffothewonderdog oh shut up you racist.
@@Shiltz I have never understood why people from other countries, except perhaps those of the Commonwealth, feel that they should wave their own flag at the singing of a strongly patriotic song of the United Kingdom. Many of these countries are not free nor do they have a lot of hope for the future. They should organise their own concerts in their own countries and sing their own patriotic ones.
An American singing the English Anthem: worth a subscription. Thank you.
and David Robertson, an American conducting the orchestra.
As an Englishman, I really appreciate this type of content. It’s great seeing Americans enjoying British culture. As brits we are often exposed to American culture more often than you guys are exposed to ours, so it is great to see! 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸
Please also react to Jerusalem and God Save the Queen at the Proms!
Oh my sweet lord, Jerusalem gets me every time. Those words. Makes me proud to be English, not that I am not proud anyways. Just beautiful. How can language reach across time and touch the soul? Just stunning.
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That’s where you’re wrong bud. Britishness goes beyond religion or politics. You can be a patriotic British Muslim, a patriotic British Leftist. It’s a love for this country, it’s history, it’s scenery, it’s people, its communities and language that makes up Patriotism. ❤️🇬🇧❤️
@@JamesHatfield49 Sorry did I miss something here?
@@PerryCJamesUK wow. He deleted his comment. A bigoted person put a comment here about how Britain now only has Muslims and leftists
@@JamesHatfield49 Or someone reported it, I don't really know how it all works.
When I hear this I'm so proud to be British. The song doesn't decry anyone else but sings of the good things that Britain stands for. All other countries are welcome to attend and fly their flags so if anyone has the sentiments of liberty and freedom they are welcome.
EXCEPT eu LOVING TRAITORS, WAVING eu RAGS!!!!!!!
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Let them wave the eu flags, they may be eu citizens.
@@dlmdee Nothing to do with me Pal
Brittain valuing liberty and freedom you must be jocking ! South Africa India Ireland One million dead in Iraque three million died whennthe potato crop failed in your nearest neighbours country part of which you still claim against all international opinion and while these Irish Brittish citizens starved to death watching their children try to eat grass and mud you were exporting food out of the country .The Brittish know as much about liberty and freedom as a cat knows about its father!
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I imagine you struggle to walk level with such a big chip on your shoulder Ps if it wasn't for Britain fighting for liberty and freedom you'd probably be talking in german now.
We don't wave our flag often, but we Brits are very patriotic 🇬🇧
That’s the British way🇬🇧
Yeah .. We get bored doing it ... We been doing so for so long now. But that pride is still there.
Where the hell have you been lately? All we've done for the past 6 years is wave the flag like idiots at every chance.
Not all are that's for sure. Some obviously like the Scottish nationalists aren"t, but even others who want bad things for the country if they can't get things their own way. You need patriotism when you get outside aggression.
America is for sure more patriotic.
@@starrynight1657 Difference is America will welcome a legal new arrival & turn them into a flag waving patriot in 5 years . In the UK it is a stupid KOL test about really useless not relevent crap . My American wife had to answer questions about Shakespeare . And state the Monarch who reigned in 1750 . I get learning a Countries history is important . But so little of modern UK is included.
40 years ago when the local volleyball team of my Norwegian hometown Tromsø played the first European Cup match held in Tromsø, "Land of Hope and Glory" was used as a National Anthem for the English team on the other side of the net. Being familiar with The Last Night of the Proms we sang along with great gusto.
Bless Norway , enjoy.
What a really lovely gesture! :)
My late Uncle who was on the Norwegian Campaign during WWII would have appreciated that gesture. Love from the UK.
We Brits totally admire you proud Norwegians as you appreciate the UK.
Norway gives the UK a Christmas Tree every year to honour our assistance during WW11. It is proudly displayed each year in Trafalgar Square. Love and best wishes from all Brits.
Funnily enough was invited to a large European gathering in another Scandinavian country, at the end of the party Land of hope and glory was played us few Brits were quiet.Looking at the organisers who had other reasons for their choice in music had large smiles.
Memories of past times will not be forgotten.
If we are to have a second English anthem, I’m still going with ‘Jerusalem’. Also a fixture at the Last Night of the Proms.
...written by a Welshman. Parry comes from the Welsh Ap Harry.
I agree, Ian. I love the other options but, of course, Jerusalem refers specifically to England. Contrary to the wiki comment about 'Land of Hope and Glory', I've only ever heard Jerusalem used in rugby and the Commonwealth Games
I agree about Herysalem but LOHAG would be ideal for Football and it WAS the football Anthem in The 1980s but sadly, as a Royalist, they put the dreary GSTQ back on again, where it has remained ever since.
I like Bill Baily's suggestion of the Pink Panther theme myself.
@@Max_Flashheart and of course Billy Connolly suggested ‘The Archers’ theme music!
Of the first London performance, Henry Wood (the conductor) says in his autobiography that “the people simply rose and yelled. I had to play it again - with the same result; in fact, they refused to let me get on with the programme….merely to restore order, I played the march a third time.”
If you revisit the Proms at some point might I suggest Jerusalem as the next song.
That should be our national anthem.
I second that
I want it played when I finally Bow out.
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Jerusalem is the English National Anthem
I agree with the suggestion of Jerusalem but would also like to know what the Americans would make of the Sea Shanties and the Sailor's Hornpipe. I love that bit as well.
I remember watching one year (many moons ago) when the conductor had decided to leave out the traditional songs that were usually sung on the Last Night. The audience were having none of it and he had to give in and let them have their way, so, the traditional Last Night songs were sung. The moral is do NOT mess with the last night. The BBC tried that during lock down and got a similar response from the public. The last night is the best, I just love it. I phoned my mum once (way back in the 1980s) and told her I was watching the Last Night, she and my step-dad were listening to it, in Germany. My German step-dad loved the Last Night of the proms as well.
Always love the last night. Understated and heavily downplayed patriotism is norm (we don't fly flags as a norm) but it is there, often well hidden beneath the surface - as the the odd MP discovers occasionally. But "last night" is really a let your hair down, and let it all hang out event.
‘Jerusalem’’ would be good. Written by the great Poet William Blake.
Best wishes from New Zealand🇳🇿🇬🇧🇺🇸
You are absolutely definitely the most boring American person who ever lived 😴 on n on stupid indeed 🙄
My favourites are I vow to thee my Country by Rami Karimoo & We will stand together to the music of Nimrod by Elgar.
This is how I like to see classical music - not just for intellectuals, but people singing their hearts out
I love your enthusiasm and it fills me with pride when you were singing a long to Land of Hope and Glory and to see you wanting to learn more about the history of how The Proms came to be. I have only ever watched it on TV but it is so colourful and I love spotting all the different flags. The atmosphere must be electric in the hall and in the park also. Thank you.
flags I 'v spotted- English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish german, Dutch Guernsey, and the Isle of Mann, sorry for any that I have missed
I always have tears listening to this. So proud to be British, Thank you SoGal, it was lovely to hear you sing, we like a good sing a long. 🤗
More reactors should react to land of hope and glory. It is so wonderfully British.
Wot Ho. Pip Pip Tally Ho.
Nothing British about it. Totally, 100% English.
18:40 "Land of Hope and Glory" is just the "trio" section of the march. The fast intro and concluding coda have no lyrics :)
Thanks for singing along, by the way. That was so sweet!
I love seeing a fellow American checking out music of other cultures, especially pieces like this but from a culturally curious nature, may them continue
Thanks Joanie. "2009" is on RUclips and a great example of this with the Female conductor dressed as Lord Nelson :)
@@Isleofskye not the conductor the singer
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@@Isleofskye 😄😄😄 I hope you can regain your composure,Isleofskye,we aw make mistakes hen
I am almost out of the Woods, THanks Lily :)
‘The Sailors Hornpipe’ is another very popular piece of music played each year at the Last Night of the Proms.
...which is part of the "Fantasia on British Sea Songs" by Sir Henry Wood himself, of course - most of which is usually played at the Last Night of the Proms every year.
There are certain pieces of music that you can't help singing along too - I love it!
I think 'Jerusalem' should be next in your trawl through British (or English in this case) patriotic songs! They usually do it on the Last Night.
Lovely to see you singing so-gal! I love this!
God Save The Queen is the UK national anthem, but for situations where several of the 4 nations compete as individual countries(e.g. Commonwealth games), they sometimes use separate anthems for England, Scotland, Wales and (Northern) Ireland.
Is there an anthem purely for England? I know the Irish have Ireland's Call, the Welsh have Land of my Fathers (usually sung in Welsh) and the Scots have The Flowers of the Forest. It seems the English have to put up with God Save the Queen which is really the national anthem of the whole of the UK not just England.
@@halcroj I agree, England's should be Land of Hope and Glory, It already is for Rugby and the Commonwealth games
@@halcroj Flowers of the Forest?? Scotland's unofficial anthem is Flower of Scotland, a totally different song.
@@stephenbarrass7496 Nonsense. Since when?
Usually the unofficial English anthem is seen to be Jerusalem. Which, controversially, I think it's much better than Pomp & Circumstance
What I find interesting is that for a patriotic event, all the flags of other countries that are waved.
Other than the English, Welsh, Scottish and Isle of Man flags, there were flags of the USA, Sweden, Ireland, France, Germany and probably others.
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Elgar wrote five Pomp and Circumstance Marches, and a sixth was completed after his death from sketches he'd left. Land of Hope and Glory is March No.1. They're all well worth listening to. I really like No. 4 as well, which is here: ruclips.net/video/_5clRHSbiFw/видео.html
Exactly. Pomp and Circumstance is a whole suite, of which Land of Hope and Glory is only a part of.
Even me, half Scottish - half Dutch.
And I still love “the last night of the proms” it makes me forget that not I’m fully British.
I would love to visit it once on said date as I’ve only heard, and seen it (digitally).
Scotland, thankfully, voted in 2014 to remain part of Britain. Therefore please embrace whatever %age of British you feel you are.
I vow to thee my country at the Royal Albert Hall is another great British Hymn worth listening to 👍💕
Glad you enjoyed the performance, we get all manor of flags as you picked out a few but you missed the one stars and strips being waved.
The amount of times I have played this with various orchestras is ridiculous, and it still gives goosebumps. LOVE IT
Near the end of the first run through, they show the bust of Sir Henry Wood: on the last night the promenaders put a garland around it in his memory.
Enjoyed your reaction. I used to go to the Proms when I was younger - it is an incredible building. This is the one time in the year when the English actually act as though they are proud to be English. It is an outlet of patriotic feeling which we suppress a lot of the time.
Love your chair cover BTW, very patriotic! 😎
You could look at the Royal British Legion festival of remembrance also from the Royal Albert Hall, a very moving service.
The proms was created so that everyday people could afford to see classical music live,and this is the last night
As one of your biggest fans that was EXASPERATING as FINALLY @ 25.02, you saw the 50,000 in Hyde Park because if you weren't holding Scarlett down you were so busy learning the words you missed most of the really colourful scenes and I was SCREAMING out "LOOK AT THE VIDEO!! " :) especially when they showed the 50,000 FLAGS from the front several times earlier and EVERY time you had your head buried elsewhere learning the words. lol
"2009" is A GREAT YEAR for this and it is on here:)
Another song you may like to watch which is traditionally played on the Last Night where we show us being rather silly is:-
Hornpipe from Fantasia on British Sea Songs (Last Night of the Proms)
Fabulous and still makes me cry with pride. Thank you lass.
Me to
Me too. Its beautiful. Just something about it.
Thank you so much for your reaction to this beautiful tradition. I would love you to carry this forward with "Jerusalem" which continues the "Last Night". Make sure you have the lyrics, and then you can cry along with us Brits
So glad you did this, been watching the proms, for donkeys years. Rule Britania is about Britain, predates the Empire, is about the Royal Navy and us. Jacob Rees Mogg played it on his smartphone in the House of Commons, breaking the rules, speaker just laughed, no admonishment.
It was written in 1740, the Empire was forming by then but no where near it's peak.
@@zaftra
The song is about the battles against a Barbary Pirates who were take English people as slaves. The British replied by forming a fighting force, later called the Royal Navy to stop the attacks. They were successful
@@monza1002000 There was indeed a force formed to protect against slaving raids. But the Royal Navy was founded over a century before, in the 1540s.
@@jefferytinney3953 1546 to be precise, by Henry VIII who founded navy dockyards at Portsmouth, Chatham, Deptford and Woolwich.
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Thanks for info. I thought came about as a direct result of the raids along the coast
Oh I love the Last Night Of The Proms! My favourite is "The Fantasia On British Sea Songs". For a totally different concert at the Royal Albert Hall, do Creams' goodbye concert in 1968 - a definitive moment in British popular music. (You could also do the one off concert - also in the Royal Albert Hall - that they did in the mid 2000's, I think - almost as good as the original!). We must remember that both Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker are no longer with us (RIP), but Eric Clapton (for it is he) is very much still alive.
The music is 'Pomp and Circumstance' by Edward Elgar , the words for Land of Hope and Glory were added later by Elgar using lyrics from A.C. Benson. Elgar was not particularly fond of it with the added lyrics.
The words were added at the suggestion of King Edward VII himself. I
The tune appears in its instrumental and vocal form in the Coronation Ode which Benson and Elgar wrote for the Coronation celebrations of 1902, though the words differ, partly because they refer specifically to the crowning. In some ways I prefer them:
"Land of hope and glory,
Mother of the free,
How shall we extol thee,
who are born of thee?
Truth and Right and Freedom,
each a holy gem,
Stars of solemn brightness,
weave thy diadem."
this made me smile so much my cheeks hurt! keep up the great work my friend! big love to all people :)
Another patriotic belter is' I vow to thee my country' it's very moving and uplifting, keep up the good work!x
There's a good version by the royal marines on there channel
Yes, “I vow to thee my country”.👍🏻
Oh yeah...the Holst piece...😃😃😃
The music is correctly Sir Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No.1, not 'Land of Hope and Glory'.
The words of the refrain 'Land of 'Hope and Glory' were written later by A.C. Benson.
Makes me so overwhelmed with joy and tears when I see German flags in there. God bless you guys:)
Why not you are our long lost brothers.
One of my favourite things about the Last Night of the Proms is seeing all those flags, waved side by side, showing just how many good friends we have across the world. The only one I cannot bear to see is the EU flag.
@@johnhudson1913 Forever:)
@@helenwood8482 I wish we were still in the EU. Cameron called a referendum at the worst possible time and fears over immigration were high because of terrorism. It feels like a step backwards instead of a coming together of people. It solves nothing to now be cut off in so many ways. I always wanted Britain to be a part of the EU even though I have so many issues with some of the people running it. Our government was pretty bad at running the country before we joined and I think they will be pretty bad again hitting the poor hard and keeping the rich very rich. I am worried about our future right now. Hope things work themselves out for the better:)
While the Patriotic Songs section is clearly a paean to British patriotism, we also recognize and appreciate the patriotism that other people feel for their own countries. It doesn't have to be a competition, we can all be winners if we adopt the right attitude. I'm very happy to see the flags of many different nations, including Germany, being waved at the Last Night of the Proms.
I once knew a French diplomat who sang his heart out to these British patriotic songs while simultaneously waving a French flag!
You have to go to 5 shows to be eligible for a ticket foe The Last Night (in the Albert hall, not if you want to attend the park). But there are afternoon and evening shows, every day, during 'the season'. So you could quite easily see 5 shows in 3 or four days, and they're not particularly expensive. Still it all adds up.
It's a little much to describe "Land of Hope and Glory" as a second national anthem. But there have been polls to find what song would make a good "national anthem" for England, considering that Wales and Scotland already have ones for themselves. The one that wins is always "Jerusalem," also known as "And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time." The lyrics are a poem by the famous William Blake. It also gets played (and sung!) at the Last Night at the Proms.
By the way, I live in Vancouver, BC, and I've attended a Last Night concert, very similar to the London one but smaller scale, in the Orpheum Theatre here. The conductor had a custom-made waistcoat that was a Union Jack on one side and a Canadian flag on the other.
.Music written by a Welshman. You probably know that Parry comes from the Welsh Ap Harry.
I don't know about Wales but Scotland's "national anthem" is unofficial. I think it would be a good idea if England had its own specific anthem rather than using "God Save the Queen/King". Especially at those sporting occasions when the "Home Nations" play each other in sporting competitions.
Jerusalem. Cracking song. My old school hymn. I still remember the music teacher at the time admonishing us all for not pronouncing chariot correctly. Well, we were all Lancashire lads, so what did he expect?
Jerusalem, it's too religious for an anthem, hate it! If we have anything new should be LOHAG definitely, its perfect.
@@rubydazhla511 Too imperiaist. "Wider stil and wider May your boundaries get..."
Sarah Connolly is an English mezzo-soprano. Best known for her baroque and classical roles at the opera.
The song is Land of Hope and Glory. The music is Edward Elgar’s Pomp & Circumstance March Number 1 in D Major. The middle section contains the tune that the song was set to. A trio has three sections: a start, a middle, and then a repeat of the first part.
I bet you get invited to loads of Party`s
@@joekidd9456 Would you mind clarifying what is meant by your comment?
I can't help but think it a bit ambiguous.
@@josephhanson675 Maybe you should reinterpret it!!
The last night of the proms is also the anniversary of Nelson’s victory at Trefalger, second only to VE Day in patriotic circles
don't tell everyone, but for every Prom - including the Last Night - there's a queue that forms outside the RAH to get up into the gods (that's the gallery around the top, from which that amazing shot that you remarked upon of the whole interior was filmed). It used to be about a fiver per person when I went. I discovered it by accident in 2006, and got to the front of the queue just as they said 'only one more person' - and I couldn't really leave my girlfriend outside! Then had a more determined go in 2012 and got in for the Last Night. After watching it on tv for so many years it was truly epic to be in there, belting out the songs and trying to dodge whoever it was that was cutting onions...
A very late comment - this one passed me, until today! I was the wife of a serving soldier at this time, living in Germany. Last Night of the Proms was one of the few TV programmes broadcast live on BFBS (services TV) It was always wonderful and very patriotic. I love our national anthem, although I always tear up and am filled with national pride when I hear 'Jerusalem'.
I think Land of Hope & Glory should be the English national anthem 🙂 ( God save the Queen is the British one ); So Gal, did you notice the crowds in Hyde Park ?
It's 'bout time England got it's own anthem....all the other nations have one.
though I would have thought you would go with "Jerusalem".
@Charlie Harper Not really as they simply change queen to king...it started out as god save the king.
And well change the pronouns...it still scans if you do that...but would sound a bit weird.....if there will be a monarch after the current one...that is a different question.
@@picaSapien Scotland and Wales have their own National Anthems on Sporting occasions , don't know about N. Ireland. Why can't England have their own, and play God Save the Queen when we compete as the UK ?
That made my eyes moisten up - so moving. Thanks for reacting to this, it makes me proud to be English, to be British. Well done on finding topics of interest to us as well!
Looove last night of the proms, so glad you like it too and hope one day you get to go yourself 😃
The Last Night is different than the rest of the prom concerts and has a different song listing each year. However, the last 30 mins or so is always the same, Land of Hope and Glory, Rule Britannia, Jerusalem, The Hornpipe etc and is the big hit part of the show. So I might suggest watching the last 30 minutes if you get the chance.
14:50 Be careful not to confuse England with the UK! God Save the Queen is the official anthem of the UK, but England doesn't have a recognised official one (whereas Scotland, Wales and NI do). "Jerusalem" is often used for England specifically; if you react to the 2012 London Olympic opening ceremony, they have choirs singing that as well as those for the three other nations.
Scotland's "national anthem" is actually unofficial. I don't know about Wales or N. Ireland.
That's a great montage from the 2012 Olympics with local children singing the "anthems". Flower of Scotland, bread of heaven for the Welsh ( I hope I've got that right), oh Danny boy for Ireland ( note the Irish rugby team represents both northern Ireland and the Republic) and Jerusalem for England. I still have a cry and laugh when I watch that opening ceremony.
It's not you know . Even the UK doesn't have an official anthem . That is to say one stated by law or act of Parliament .
@@michaelprobert4014 Good. The UK isn't a country. And it never will be.
@@jackdubz4247 wanker ..🙄🏴🇬🇧
Did you know? Queen Victoria's husband was named after a concert hall in London.
Rather like one of the lesser known US presidents Madison Square Garden.
For a further British classical institution you can check out Glyndebourne, an opera festival held at it's namesake stately home.
Also, do check out Dame Evelyn Glennie, a stunning percussionist who lost her hearing as a child. She has a fantastic story.
When we went to the Last Night, we were singing as loud as we could, but we couldn't hear ourselves...
You are as good as gold ( a New Zealand phrase). As a British / New Zealander I really appreciate it and I loved the USA as well. We are all people of the world. Land of Hope and Glory was my first wife's favorite song. She died 25 years ago. I proposed to my second in Hawaii and she died 3 years years ago. So as a sad lonely only old man I felt it mt my duty to thank you.
"as good as gold" a NZ phrase? I don't think so. It is a very , very common phrase in the UK.
As the orchestra builds up to the chorus I get a shiver down my spine. I love the last night at the proms.
The "Last Night" concerts have simultaneous events in other UK capitals, as well as in Hyde Park.
Ha, Ha! Great video SoGal loved to see you getting into it🙂.
seeing all the flags fly here makes me soo damn proud to be british
Way to go SoGal, I'm enjoying all your input to RUclips. We are very different nations but we do have 'Ties that bind' and respect for one another cements the existing relationship further.
Keep them coming!
Dude.... you singing along to LOHAG - stellar! Really enjoyed this one 😃
In the course of my lifetime, the most famous conductor of the Proms, and particularly notable for underlining the commeraderie between the BBC Symphony Orchestra (which always plays the Last Night) and the Promenaders (the regular season audience) was Sir Malcolm Sargent. He was principal conductor of the Proms for 21 years, conducting his final Last Night (or at least the very end of that night, as he'd just had surgery) just two weeks before his death.
It is very popular in Japan. Or was a few years ago. Local promoters convinced the producers to take it to Japan. Flags were being sold and the Japanese audiences wanted British flags and not there own as this was the predominant flag they had seen on TV. It has since toured Australia and other countries.
I love your passion for most things English/British. You've clearly had lots of past lives in the UK!
Nice to see a version with just national flags being waved.
You tried your best singing gorgeous. Love from Britain always 🇬🇧🇬🇧
I went to a couple of concerts a few years ago with my music class (at RAH but not the Proms) where this song was performed. Since quite a few of us only knew the words for the first couple of lines, we made up lyrics for the rest of the chorus so that we could still join in the singing
This song brings tears to my eyes. Truly the land of hope and glory.
Glad you liked last night of the proms. Also listen to , Fantasia on British sea songs and of course Jerusalem.
Directly across the road from the Royal Albert Hall is the Albert Memorial. One of many memorials in the country to Prince Albert. This was also the location of the Great Exhibition of 1851, and original site of The Crystal Palace constructed for the exhibition - later moved to South London where it was destroyed by a fire.
Well done for have a go a singing along. Really well done.
I always enjoy this. It's not our national anthem but it is a British anthem. The recording is inside the hall but there are another 70000 outside that are all watching and singing along creating an atmosphere.
So glad you referred to it as a British anthem (I would have preferred British patriotic song) rather than English. So many people forget that the UK is comprised of four countries, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
I like this new format where you review the Wiki page before you start, for the record. I remember first coming across the idea of American graduation ceremonies using "Pomp and Circumstance" in a Peanuts strip and found it absolutely bizarre! Also I liked how you started doing the shoulder motion even before knowing it was the done thing!
yes, it was a smart thing to do - however SoGal would do even better to read the Wiki pages in full earlier. After asking some pertinent questions, she then missed the actual answers further down the wiki even though we could see them on the screen (e.g. televised since 1953). I think she would gain more and be able to pass on more info and appreciation with a little more prep ;)
Wow, I haven't heard the entire Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in ages. It brought back so many fond memories of listening to classical records with my Dad, so thanks for that. Like you, I had no idea that the piece was such a big deal in the UK, or that it had lyrics. Other than an Elgar record, I only ever heard it at high school graduation.
Towards the end in a high shot of the orchestra you can just see a brown bust of a man. That is Sir Henry Wood,who gets a wreath around his head from the promenaders every year. I think Jerusalem would be a better anthem choice though. Done epically on the Last Night of course.
The Sailor's Hornpipe is always fun to watch too, highly recommended!
Its not really our second national anthem, God Save The Queen is our only national anthem. There are a few patriotic songs that are often sung at special occasions consisting of: Land of Hope and Glory, Rule Britannia, I Vow to Thee My Country and Jerusalem.
Jerusalem is the best patriotic song you have... It should maybe be considered as a national anthem for England since one Welshman told me that they have their own national anthem besides God save the king/queen...
@@srdjanvitorovic5795 God Save The Queen is my favourite, the others are better as songs but that one brings the most patriotic feeling. Its also the national anthem for Wales, Land of My Fathers is just a patriotic song and not an actual national anthem.
Think I'd prefer this over Jerusalem, Jerusalem is just weird.
God Save The Queen will NEVER be Scotland's anything.
@@jackdubz4247 It is currently Scotland’s national anthem and has been since it was adopted in 1745, as in all countries of The U.K.
Lovely reaction. Thank you very much.
I love two things about the last night of the proms is that it brings classical music to people who would not otherwise hear it. And It's one of the rare occasions that we Brits feel that we can express our patriotism, as you know we are quite self critical.
I'm so proud to be British
The noises you hear during these performances are "Party Poppers" - The audience always have streamers and party poppers. By the way, if you want to see how much fun the seasonal proms can be, check out Dr. Who at the proms.
That really makes me proud to be British, even brought a ter to my eye!
If any of you "Johnny Foreigner " think the UK is asleep and fancy having a 'pop' at us, watch this, see the passion that the "Brits" have and think again... God made the Earth, but we built the World! "God save the Queen!"
Hi, the piece of music is titled Pomp and Circumstance March Number 1. Land of Hope and Glory is the vocal part of the music often particularly when performed on its own. Elgar wrote 5 Pomp and Circumstance Marches. Number 4 is good.
The National Anthem of the United Kingdom is God Save The Queen or King. That is played at all official occasions or where a British team is taking part e.g. the Olympics. However in many sports the constituent nations of the UK compete individually, they all have their own anthems except England who still mostly use the UK national anthem. There has been talk about what England could use. At the Commonwealth Games England did use Land of Hope and Glory but it was changed to Jerusalem after a public vote. Jerusalem is also played before the England cricket team play. That is also a Last Night of the Proms favourite.
The prom was first broadcast on radio in 1927 and on tv in 1947 although only the Last Night was televised.
The orchestra at the Last Night is normally the BBC symphony orchestra.
The Proms were originally held in the Queens Hall in Langham Place, which coincidentally was to become the neighbour of the BBC when it was formed. They were moved to the RAH during WW2 when the Queen's Hall was bombed. They then moved again later in the war amid concerns the RAH would be bombed. They moved to the Bedford Corn Exchange. After the war they moved back to the RAH where they still are. Can't actually find why the BBC ceased to fund them.
I live in the area where Elgar composed a lot of his music. His piece Nimrod truly evokes the Malvern hills.
Love it when you sang. So funny 😊. Love from the UK 🇬🇧
Yeah, the Pomp and circumstance March was written by Edward Elgar. His house is about 20 miles away from me, in Worcestershire, and there is a statue of the chap leaning on a bicycle outside our cathedral, here in Hereford. He used to cycle across for choir festivals and such things. His house is now a museum, it contains a lot of original manuscripts and other documents, artifacts, pictures of his life.
The march is a much longer piece, they only play the climax at the last night of the proms. We sometime's hear the slower movement during royal and state occasions. It's all nice music, you should try the whole March, it'll be on you tube.
Another well known work by Elgar is the Enigma variations. It's a piece divided into shorter sections, each one named or dedicated to a friend of his. The part called Nimrod is quite well known.
Land of hope and glory is often used as the English anthem when there is a competition involving all the home nations playing separately. God save the queen is for Britain as a whole. She is monarch of the UK. So Wales, Scotland, Ireland, have their own anthems too.
At the last night, there is a basket of songs which are always included. Rule Britannia is included in a selection of sea chanties and naval songs. Land of H & G of course, and Jerusalem is sung too. ( words by William Blake, music by Parry) it is often cited as a potential anthem too.
Some people like the patriotic flag waving and songs, others find it slightly jingoistic and embarrassing . It generates a party atmosphere though.
Just been looking. March no 4 is the other movement I was struggling to identify. It's often used on special occasions. A little bit smoother and less brash than the no 1.
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Prom 52 1989 was apparently the first time it was aired on the telly. So proud to be British🇬🇧