children and families, the Prom is informal, including audience participation,
jokes, and popular classics.
High demand for tickets – which are among the
lowest priced in the season – saw this Prom be split in 2004 into two Proms
with identical content.
In 2008, the Blue Peter Prom was replaced with
a
Doctor Who
Prom which was repeated in both the 2010 and 2013 seasons.
The 2004 season also featured the Hall's newly rebuilt pipe organ. It
took two years to complete the task (2002–2004)
and was the work of Noel
Mander, Ltd., of London. It was the first complete restoration of the
instrument since Harrison and Harrison's work in 1936.
The tradition of Promming remains an important aspect of the festival,
with over 1000 standing places available for each concert, either in the central
arena (rather like the groundlings in the pit at Shakespeare's Globe) or high in
the hall's gallery. Promming tickets cost the same for all concerts (still only
£5 in 2013), providing a considerably cheaper option for the more popular
events. Since the tickets cannot be bought in advance (although there are full-
season tickets, first weekend and weekly passes available), they provide a
way of getting into otherwise sold-out concerts.
In 2010, the Proms Archive was introduced
on the BBC Proms webpage, to allow for a
systematic searching of all works that have been performed and all artists who have
appeared at The Proms since their inception. On 1 September 2011 a Prom given by
the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra was severely affected
by interruptions from pro-
Palestinian protesters.
While the Palestine Solidarity Campaign had urged a boycott, they
denied being behind the disruption inside the Royal Albert Hall. For the first time ever, the
BBC took a Prom concert off the air.
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