Promenading.

Now that the Proms programme for this year has been published, there has been much comment on the lack of music by British composers. But why? Neither Henry Wood, nor the man who really deserves the credit for the idea, Robert Newman, intended the Proms to be in any way a showcase for British music, or for that matter any other particular kind of music. Their idea was simply to "demystify" classical music by presenting it in a relaxed and informal atmosphere and at an affordable price. So no composer has any God-given right to have his music included.