Simon Rattle is uneasy about ‘jingoistic’ Proms
NewsThe conductor, who lives in Berlin and has quit the LSO for a Munich orchestra, has been sharing deep thoughts with Radio Times on the Last Night of the Proms.
‘I never conducted the Last Night, always avoided it a bit. I’ve been uneasy about some of the jingoistic elements, ever since the Falklands in 1982,’ he said. He then added that Last Night was ‘a kind of extraordinary thing where people got together and celebrated the end of what is a unique series of concerts’.
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