The music to the ears that is a new Proms season
As overtures go, few lift the spirits quite like the announcement of a new Proms season. Harbinger of summer, drum-roll that presages the greatest classical music festival in the world, the arrival of the Proms guide – a publication which regularly tops the paperback best-seller lists – brings to mind warm nights at the Albert Hall and a panoply of sounds that from mid-July to early September run an amazing gamut.