But the Proms were running at a loss, and in Chappell's announced its withdrawal of financial support. In the same year the BBC had established its status as a Corporation with a mandate 'to inform, educate and entertain', clearly a vision that Henry Wood held for the Proms. The Proms now reached a far wider audience and although some feared that broadcasting would reduce audience numbers, Wood emphasised its role in achieving his aim 'of truly democratising the message of music, and making its beneficent effect universal'.
Three days after Britain declared war on Germany in , the BBC decentralised its Music Department and announced that it was unable to support the Proms. With characteristic determination Wood found private sponsorship for the and seasons, and replaced the BBC orchestra with the London Symphony Orchestra. But air-raids intensified and the season lasted only four weeks. On 10 May a Luftwaffe bombardment gutted the Queen's Hall.
The only other hall available in London for orchestral concerts was the Royal Albert Hall, opened in , and the Proms took place there in It was not until the following season that the BBC returned to sponsor the Proms.
By now Wood's phenomenal energies were waning, and he passed away a whisker short of his half-century of conducting the Proms. After the War, the traditional Wagner Nights became unfashionable. From Viennese evenings became popular and composer anniversaries were well catered for. In and the deaths of Sibelius and Vaughan Williams were marked by complete symphony cycles. Malcolm Sargent, Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from , gave most of the performances, but the s also saw a gradual increase in the number of orchestras taking part.
The core orchestral repertoire, a mainstay of the Proms, was reduced to accommodate a more experimental style of programming, one which carried bold juxtapositions and reflected current musical trends from around the world.
Between and the number of works new to the Proms had more than doubled. Matt Soniak's got the answer below. Just in case you were home schooled in a survivalist compound, the prom is a semi-formal dinner and dance held at the end of a high school academic year. Today, the prom is completely inseparable from the American high school experience, and it often features fantastic displays of excess-- dresses with four or five figure price tags, transportation by stretch Hummer, weekend-long after-parties.
But that's not exactly how the tradition started out. The first proms were held at colleges and were simple, home-grown events meant to teach good manners. More specifically, the dances got their start in the Northeast in the late 's. According to historians, one of the earliest references to prom comes from the journal of a male student at Amherst College who, in an entry from , describes his invitation to, and experience at, an early prom at the nearby Smith College.
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