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Summer in Britain brings with it welcome bursts of sunshine and events like Wimbledon Tennis Championship, the Royal Ascot horse races, and the Proms, one of the world’s largest classical music festivals. The Proms, which started in 1895, is a two-month-long party staged at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Night after night, the arena fills with people who pay 6 pounds to see the orchestras, chamber ensembles, choirs and soloists. Some prefer the expensive seats and others the Hall, which can fit 6,000 and is packed on most nights. “The Proms have always been very democratic because the people who stand in the arena have the best places in the Hall, but they pay the least money,” said Nicholas Kenyon, who ran the festival from 1996 to 2007. He is also the director of the Barbican Centre, a London arts venue. “The other incredible thing is the sense of community there, which is partly to do with the Hall being circular,” he said. “Everybody is being swept together, audience and orchestra, as part of one community. They are very aware of this shared experience,” he exclaimed. This season, 75 Proms will be performed at the Royal Albert Hall, and 15 of them will be world premieres of newly composed music.