promenade concert

The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable | 2006 | 374 words | Copyright

promenade concert a concert of classical music at which a part of the audience stands in an area without seating, for which tickets are sold at a reduced price. The most famous series of such concerts is the annual BBC Promenade Concerts (known as the Proms), instituted by Sir Henry Wood in 1895 and held since the Second World War chiefly in the Albert Hall in London.

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