Editing Royal Albert Hall (section)

====BBC Proms====
[[File:BBC Proms July 2022.jpg|thumb|225px|A [[The Proms|prom]] seen from Stalls K]]
The BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, known as "[[The Proms]]", is a popular annual eight-week summer season of daily [[European classical music|classical music]] concerts and other events at the Hall. In 1941, following the destruction of the [[Queen's Hall]] in an [[The Blitz|air raid]], the Hall was chosen as the new venue for the Proms.<ref name="Ibbs">{{cite book| title=Ibbs and Tillett: The Rise and Fall of a Musical Empire| author=Christopher Fifield| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qz-s4zdLCNsC&q=Albert+Hall++the+proms+1941&pg=PA241| publisher=Ashgate Publishing Limited| access-date=17 June 2011| isbn=1-84014-290-1| pages=241–242| year=2005| archive-date=22 February 2024| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240222110014/https://books.google.com/books?id=qz-s4zdLCNsC&q=Albert+Hall++the+proms+1941&pg=PA241| url-status=live}}</ref> In 1944 with increased danger to the Hall, part of the Proms season was held in the [[Corn Exchange, Bedford|Bedford Corn Exchange]]. Following the end of [[World War II]] the Proms continued being held in the Hall and have done so annually every summer since. The event was founded in 1895, and now each season consists of over 70 concerts, in addition to a series of events at other venues across the United Kingdom. In 2009, the total number of concerts reached 100 for the first time. [[Jiří Bělohlávek]] described The Proms as "the world's largest and most democratic musical festival" of all such events in the world of classical music festivals.<ref>Jiří Bělohlávek, Speech from The Last Night of the Proms 2007, 8 September 2007.</ref>

Proms (short for [[promenade concert]]s) is a term which arose from the original practice of the audience promenading, or strolling, in some areas during the concert. Proms concert-goers, particularly those who stand, are sometimes described as "Promenaders", but are most commonly referred to as "Prommers".<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b5d7R_QkFakC&q=%22Prommers%22&pg=PA57| title=Subjectivities, Knowledges, and Feminist Geographies| author=Liz Bondi| publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.| place=Lahham, Maryland| year=2002| access-date=17 June 2011| pages=57–58| isbn=0-7425-1562-1| display-authors=etal| archive-date=22 February 2024| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240222105947/https://books.google.com/books?id=b5d7R_QkFakC&q=%22Prommers%22&pg=PA57#v=snippet&q=%22Prommers%22&f=false| url-status=live}}</ref>