I will admit that I am somewhat of an anglophile… I love many things about Great Britain: its food, traditions, military history, and to an extent its politics.  I have always wanted to go during the summer to attend the Last Night of the Proms and be part of the massive audience enjoying and perhaps even singing along with the BBC Orchestra and Chorus…

Anyhow, today I was looking for music to listen to while I was working on my latest venture when all of a sudden I bumped into this golden nugget:

Isn’t it amazing how the fervour of the audience is transmitted through the video?  The beauty of it is that I assure you that there are all sorts of people there with there different views on a plethora of issues, yet they still get together and sing… It’s beautiful!  And Sir Roger Norrington is on point about what music is.  It’s why I joined a musical fraternity; its why I had little reservations about joining a marching band at age 27.  Music is a universal language and truly the greatest of the arts.  That sounds awfully familiar…

There’s nothing like an organ surge on the last musical phrases of a wonderful piece!  I always wanted to see a graduation here in the States where the complete last portion of Pomp and Circumstances

Just in case you enjoyed Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance, here’s the rest of that final segment of the Last Night of the Proms, 2008.

Who knows, perhaps the BBC might still have a fighting chance as the jewel of culture I remember it being ages ago

Rule Brittania! (Bryn Terfel was especially awesome singing in Welsh!)

God Save the Queen!