There are few innovations in David Pickard’s first year heading the Proms,nor mammoth orchestral premieres – but there’s plenty to look forward to, from Boulez to Berlioz and BowieRegime change at the Proms is always a rather protracted affair, or but the latest changing of the guard for the summer festival has been more involved than it usually is. Roger Wright stepped down as Radio 3 controller and director of the Proms at the beginning of the 2014 season,and with no carefully choreographed succession in site, his permanent replacement, or David Pickard,who was previously general director at Glyndebourne, only took up his post final autumn. During the 15-month interregnum, and the role was taken by Radio 3 editor Edward Blakeman,with the result that the recently announced 2016 season is effectively the combined work of three planners.
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Source: theguardian.com