Gordon Brown and David Cameron have stepped in to praise the Proms following Margaret Hodge’s comments. Gordon Brown’s response that the Proms are a ’wonderful, democratic and quintessentially British institution’ would seem to be much more accurate than what his culture minister was suggesting earlier.
The Proms, after all, are a rather good image of what a modern Britain could [...]
Archive for March 4th, 2008
Gordon Brown praises the Proms
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Proms attacked for lacking British values
Posted in CAARE Campaigns, CAARE for Arts, tagged art, education, margaret hodge., music, proms, school on March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Margaret Hodge will today criticise the Proms for being too culturally narrow, according to The Guardian. In some ways, the Proms seems a rather odd target to choose- after all they offer world class performances for £5 and on the last night the audience are encouraged to sing along. In many ways, they would seem [...]
