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I fear for this year’s Proms

Peter Phillips sees weaknesses in the programming that suggests the pace of evolution is too slow

6 June 2015

9:00 AM

6 June 2015

9:00 AM

As Sepp Blatter has so affectingly remarked, the organisation he formerly headed needs evolution, not revolution. There is a consensus that this is also what David Pickard will bring to the Proms, when he takes over after this season. Of course, Pickard’s job is going to be more complex than Blatter’s ever was.

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