Post-war
Wood continued his work with the Proms until his death in 1944.
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During
the War Sir Adrian Boult and Basil Cameron also took on conducting duties
for the Proms,
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and after the War maintained them until the advent
of Malcolm Sargent as Proms chief conductor in 1947. Sargent held this post
until 1966; his associate conductor from 1949 to 1959 wasJohn
Hollingsworth. Sargent was noted for his immaculate appearance (evening
dress, carnation) and his witty addresses where he good-naturedly chided the
noisy Prommers. Sir Malcolm championed choral music and classical and
British composers, especially Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. The charity founded
in his name, CLIC Sargent, continues to hold a special Promenade Concert
each year shortly after the main season ends. CLIC Sargent, the Musicians'
Benevolent Fund and further musical charities (chosen each year) also benefit
from thousands of pounds in donations from Prommers after most concerts.
When asking for donations, Prommers from the Arena regularly announce to
the audience the running donations total at concert intervals through the
season, or before the concert when there is no interval.
After Wood's death, Julian Herbage acted as
de facto
principal administrator
of the Proms for a number of years, as a freelance employee after his
retirement from the BBC, with assistance from such staff as Edward
Clark and Kenneth Wright.
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During the tenure of William Glock as
Controller of the Proms, beginning in 1960, the Proms repertory expanded
both forwards in time, to encompass then contemporary and avant-garde
composers such as Boulez, Berio, Carter, Dallapiccola, Peter Maxwell
Davies, Gerhard, Henze, Ligeti, Lutosławski, Lutyens, Maw, Messiaen,
Nono, Stockhausen, and Tippett, as well as backwards to include music by
past composers such as Purcell, Cavalli, Monteverdi, Byrd, Palestrina, Dufay,
Dunstaple and Machaut, as well as less-often performed works of Johann
Sebastian Bach and Joseph Haydn.
From the 1960s, the number of guest
orchestras at the Proms also began to increase, with the first major
227
international conductors (Leopold Stokowski, Georg Solti and Carlo Maria
Giulini) performing in 1963, and the first foreign orchestra, the Moscow
Radio Symphony Orchestra, performing in 1966. Since that time, almost
every major international orchestra, conductor and soloist has performed at
the Proms. In 1970, Soft Machine's appearance led to press attention and
comment as the first "pop" band to perform there.
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