In their recommendations of the best of this year's BBC Proms, theartsdesk's music writers have been thunderously silent on the only event that will excite a certain section of the audience demographic. I refer, of course, to what will no doubt become the traditional Doctor Who Prom. Or Proms.
In 2008 the inaugural Prom featuring music from the flagship BBC One drama was so successful, drawing a sizeable audience on television as well as many junior first-timers to a classical concert, that this time round the ever-inclusive Proms boss Roger Wright has scheduled two of them. So Prom 10 on Saturday, 24 July will include suitably suggestive and phantasmagorical music plucked from The Planets, Carmina Burana and The Ride of the Valkyries, as well as a 40-minute suite from the show by Murray Gold. Then at 11 o'clock the next morning at Prom 11, they'll play the whole lot again.
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales will as usual be thumping out the ghoulish theme tune and much else besides while Daleks, Cybermen and what have you prowl the auditorium of the Royal Albert Hall. They will be joined by the London Philharmonic Choir, conductors Ben Foster and Grant Llewellyn, and of course by the Time Lord himself, plus his able assistant Amy Pond (also known as Matt Smith, pictured above right, and Karen Gillan).
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