American Reacts to Land of Hope and Glory | Last Night of the Proms 

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This is not a song you sing quietly or in a shy meek voice, this is a song you belt out with all tour heart

Oh how this makes me Proud to be British. Rule Britannia 🇬🇧🇬🇧

Of course we sing this in Canada!! We’re part of the Commonwealth! Love it; great job.

Land of Hope and Glory was written by the best English composer ever, namely Sir Edward Elgar

It is very important to remember that it is the LAST NIGHT of the Proms, usually about 75 concerts. The Promenaders attend a large number of concerts, with many holding Season Tickets which give admission to every concert. Many Promenaders travel from all over the world to stay in London for the season and the Last Night is very much the "end of term party" where the normally very quiet and attentive audience (many conductors and musicians mention the intense silence of the audience during performances) let their hair down and have a party to say farewell to each other until the next year. There is much horseplay, high-jinks and fun and many Promenaders wear evening dress for the occasion. I was a regular prommer for many years and did 10-12 Last Nights from the mid 1990s to 2011 and had a great time. Happy to answer any specific questions you may have, SoGal.

I don't think there is anything, other than Jerusalem, that can send a shiver down the spine for us Brits.

An American singing the English Anthem: worth a subscription. Thank you.

My school used to have their Prize Giving ceremony at The Royal Albert Hall. One year, I was in the school Choir. In those days (1961) my school had schools all over the UK. All the school choirs got together to create a choir 250 strong, we were all seated under the huge Organ and behind the Orchestra .... which was The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by John Tobin. We sang quite a few songs but ... what will ALWAYS be ingrained on my memory was singing Jerusalem and Land of Hope and Glory. Even as a 13 year old, singing those iconic songs in The Royal Albert Hall with such a wonderful orchestra sent shivers down my spine ... something I will NEVER forget.

40 years ago when the local volleyball team of my Norwegian hometown Tromsø played the first European Cup match held in Tromsø, "Land of Hope and Glory" was used as a National Anthem for the English team on the other side of the net. Being familiar with The Last Night of the Proms we sang along with great gusto.

Of the first London performance, Henry Wood (the conductor) says in his autobiography that “the people simply rose and yelled. I had to play it again - with the same result; in fact, they refused to let me get on with the programme….merely to restore order, I played the march a third time.”

We don't wave our flag often, but we Brits are very patriotic 🇬🇧

When I hear this I'm so proud to be British. The song doesn't decry anyone else but sings of the good things that Britain stands for. All other countries are welcome to attend and fly their flags so if anyone has the sentiments of liberty and freedom they are welcome.

As an Englishman, I really appreciate this type of content. It’s great seeing Americans enjoying British culture. As brits we are often exposed to American culture more often than you guys are exposed to ours, so it is great to see! 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸 Please also react to Jerusalem and God Save the Queen at the Proms!

‘Jerusalem’’ would be good. Written by the great Poet William Blake. Best wishes from New Zealand🇳🇿🇬🇧🇺🇸

I remember watching one year (many moons ago) when the conductor had decided to leave out the traditional songs that were usually sung on the Last Night. The audience were having none of it and he had to give in and let them have their way, so, the traditional Last Night songs were sung. The moral is do NOT mess with the last night. The BBC tried that during lock down and got a similar response from the public. The last night is the best, I just love it. I phoned my mum once (way back in the 1980s) and told her I was watching the Last Night, she and my step-dad were listening to it, in Germany. My German step-dad loved the Last Night of the proms as well.

This is how I like to see classical music - not just for intellectuals, but people singing their hearts out

If you revisit the Proms at some point might I suggest Jerusalem as the next song.

Always love the last night. Understated and heavily downplayed patriotism is norm (we don't fly flags as a norm) but it is there, often well hidden beneath the surface - as the the odd MP discovers occasionally. But "last night" is really a let your hair down, and let it all hang out event.

If we are to have a second English anthem, I’m still going with ‘Jerusalem’. Also a fixture at the Last Night of the Proms.

18:40 "Land of Hope and Glory" is just the "trio" section of the march. The fast intro and concluding coda have no lyrics :) Thanks for singing along, by the way. That was so sweet!

Even me, half Scottish - half Dutch. And I still love “the last night of the proms” it makes me forget that not I’m fully British. I would love to visit it once on said date as I’ve only heard, and seen it (digitally).

The amount of times I have played this with various orchestras is ridiculous, and it still gives goosebumps. LOVE IT

I love your enthusiasm and it fills me with pride when you were singing a long to Land of Hope and Glory and to see you wanting to learn more about the history of how The Proms came to be. I have only ever watched it on TV but it is so colourful and I love spotting all the different flags. The atmosphere must be electric in the hall and in the park also. Thank you.

‘The Sailors Hornpipe’ is another very popular piece of music played each year at the Last Night of the Proms.

I always have tears listening to this. So proud to be British, Thank you SoGal, it was lovely to hear you sing, we like a good sing a long. 🤗

There are certain pieces of music that you can't help singing along too - I love it!

More reactors should react to land of hope and glory. It is so wonderfully British.

I vow to thee my country at the Royal Albert Hall is another great British Hymn worth listening to 👍💕

I think 'Jerusalem' should be next in your trawl through British (or English in this case) patriotic songs! They usually do it on the Last Night.

Enjoyed your reaction. I used to go to the Proms when I was younger - it is an incredible building. This is the one time in the year when the English actually act as though they are proud to be English. It is an outlet of patriotic feeling which we suppress a lot of the time.

I love seeing a fellow American checking out music of other cultures, especially pieces like this but from a culturally curious nature, may them continue

As one of your biggest fans that was EXASPERATING as FINALLY @ 25.02, you saw the 50,000 in Hyde Park because if you weren't holding Scarlett down you were so busy learning the words you missed most of the really colourful scenes and I was SCREAMING out "LOOK AT THE VIDEO!! " :) especially when they showed the 50,000 FLAGS from the front several times earlier and EVERY time you had your head buried elsewhere learning the words. lol "2009" is A GREAT YEAR for this and it is on here:)

God Save The Queen is the UK national anthem, but for situations where several of the 4 nations compete as individual countries(e.g. Commonwealth games), they sometimes use separate anthems for England, Scotland, Wales and (Northern) Ireland.

Elgar wrote five Pomp and Circumstance Marches, and a sixth was completed after his death from sketches he'd left. Land of Hope and Glory is March No.1. They're all well worth listening to. I really like No. 4 as well, which is here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_5clRHSbiFw.html

Lovely to see you singing so-gal! I love this!

What I find interesting is that for a patriotic event, all the flags of other countries that are waved. Other than the English, Welsh, Scottish and Isle of Man flags, there were flags of the USA, Sweden, Ireland, France, Germany and probably others.

Near the end of the first run through, they show the bust of Sir Henry Wood: on the last night the promenaders put a garland around it in his memory.

Thank you so much for your reaction to this beautiful tradition. I would love you to carry this forward with "Jerusalem" which continues the "Last Night". Make sure you have the lyrics, and then you can cry along with us Brits

Love your chair cover BTW, very patriotic! 😎

Fabulous and still makes me cry with pride. Thank you lass.

Oh I love the Last Night Of The Proms! My favourite is "The Fantasia On British Sea Songs". For a totally different concert at the Royal Albert Hall, do Creams' goodbye concert in 1968 - a definitive moment in British popular music. (You could also do the one off concert - also in the Royal Albert Hall - that they did in the mid 2000's, I think - almost as good as the original!). We must remember that both Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker are no longer with us (RIP), but Eric Clapton (for it is he) is very much still alive.

You could look at the Royal British Legion festival of remembrance also from the Royal Albert Hall, a very moving service.

The music is 'Pomp and Circumstance' by Edward Elgar , the words for Land of Hope and Glory were added later by Elgar using lyrics from A.C. Benson. Elgar was not particularly fond of it with the added lyrics.

Another song you may like to watch which is traditionally played on the Last Night where we show us being rather silly is:- Hornpipe from Fantasia on British Sea Songs (Last Night of the Proms)

Another patriotic belter is' I vow to thee my country' it's very moving and uplifting, keep up the good work!x

Glad you enjoyed the performance, we get all manor of flags as you picked out a few but you missed the one stars and strips being waved.

So glad you did this, been watching the proms, for donkeys years. Rule Britania is about Britain, predates the Empire, is about the Royal Navy and us. Jacob Rees Mogg played it on his smartphone in the House of Commons, breaking the rules, speaker just laughed, no admonishment.

seeing all the flags fly here makes me soo damn proud to be british

I'm so proud to be British

The Last Night is different than the rest of the prom concerts and has a different song listing each year. However, the last 30 mins or so is always the same, Land of Hope and Glory, Rule Britannia, Jerusalem, The Hornpipe etc and is the big hit part of the show. So I might suggest watching the last 30 minutes if you get the chance.

I think Land of Hope & Glory should be the English national anthem 🙂 ( God save the Queen is the British one ); So Gal, did you notice the crowds in Hyde Park ?

14:50 Be careful not to confuse England with the UK! God Save the Queen is the official anthem of the UK, but England doesn't have a recognised official one (whereas Scotland, Wales and NI do). "Jerusalem" is often used for England specifically; if you react to the 2012 London Olympic opening ceremony, they have choirs singing that as well as those for the three other nations.

It's a little much to describe "Land of Hope and Glory" as a second national anthem. But there have been polls to find what song would make a good "national anthem" for England, considering that Wales and Scotland already have ones for themselves. The one that wins is always "Jerusalem," also known as "And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time." The lyrics are a poem by the famous William Blake. It also gets played (and sung!) at the Last Night at the Proms. By the way, I live in Vancouver, BC, and I've attended a Last Night concert, very similar to the London one but smaller scale, in the Orpheum Theatre here. The conductor had a custom-made waistcoat that was a Union Jack on one side and a Canadian flag on the other.

A very late comment - this one passed me, until today! I was the wife of a serving soldier at this time, living in Germany. Last Night of the Proms was one of the few TV programmes broadcast live on BFBS (services TV) It was always wonderful and very patriotic. I love our national anthem, although I always tear up and am filled with national pride when I hear 'Jerusalem'.

this made me smile so much my cheeks hurt! keep up the great work my friend! big love to all people :)

Nice to see a version with just national flags being waved.

I vow to thee my country is my alternative to the national anthem.

This song brings tears to my eyes. Truly the land of hope and glory.

It is very popular in Japan. Or was a few years ago. Local promoters convinced the producers to take it to Japan. Flags were being sold and the Japanese audiences wanted British flags and not there own as this was the predominant flag they had seen on TV. It has since toured Australia and other countries.

Looove last night of the proms, so glad you like it too and hope one day you get to go yourself 😃

The song is Land of Hope and Glory. The music is Edward Elgar’s Pomp & Circumstance March Number 1 in D Major. The middle section contains the tune that the song was set to. A trio has three sections: a start, a middle, and then a repeat of the first part.

The proms was created so that everyday people could afford to see classical music live,and this is the last night

As the orchestra builds up to the chorus I get a shiver down my spine. I love the last night at the proms.

You are as good as gold ( a New Zealand phrase). As a British / New Zealander I really appreciate it and I loved the USA as well. We are all people of the world. Land of Hope and Glory was my first wife's favorite song. She died 25 years ago. I proposed to my second in Hawaii and she died 3 years years ago. So as a sad lonely only old man I felt it mt my duty to thank you.

You have to go to 5 shows to be eligible for a ticket foe The Last Night (in the Albert hall, not if you want to attend the park). But there are afternoon and evening shows, every day, during 'the season'. So you could quite easily see 5 shows in 3 or four days, and they're not particularly expensive. Still it all adds up.

That made my eyes moisten up - so moving. Thanks for reacting to this, it makes me proud to be English, to be British. Well done on finding topics of interest to us as well!

don't tell everyone, but for every Prom - including the Last Night - there's a queue that forms outside the RAH to get up into the gods (that's the gallery around the top, from which that amazing shot that you remarked upon of the whole interior was filmed). It used to be about a fiver per person when I went. I discovered it by accident in 2006, and got to the front of the queue just as they said 'only one more person' - and I couldn't really leave my girlfriend outside! Then had a more determined go in 2012 and got in for the Last Night. After watching it on tv for so many years it was truly epic to be in there, belting out the songs and trying to dodge whoever it was that was cutting onions...

2009, practically another world.

You tried your best singing gorgeous. Love from Britain always 🇬🇧🇬🇧

Sarah Connolly is an English mezzo-soprano. Best known for her baroque and classical roles at the opera.

I was at a Last Night only once in my life - it IS possible to be drunk on emotion.

For a further British classical institution you can check out Glyndebourne, an opera festival held at it's namesake stately home. Also, do check out Dame Evelyn Glennie, a stunning percussionist who lost her hearing as a child. She has a fantastic story.

Thank you for sharing this. I'm impressed with your commentary. Lovely person x

Prom 52 1989 was apparently the first time it was aired on the telly. So proud to be British🇬🇧

Well done for have a go a singing along. Really well done.

In the course of my lifetime, the most famous conductor of the Proms, and particularly notable for underlining the commeraderie between the BBC Symphony Orchestra (which always plays the Last Night) and the Promenaders (the regular season audience) was Sir Malcolm Sargent. He was principal conductor of the Proms for 21 years, conducting his final Last Night (or at least the very end of that night, as he'd just had surgery) just two weeks before his death.

Ha, Ha! Great video SoGal loved to see you getting into it🙂.

Try hearing Jerusalem” at the Proms. It’s wonderful! Makes me feel very British

Glad you liked last night of the proms. Also listen to , Fantasia on British sea songs and of course Jerusalem.

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!!!

Way to go SoGal, I'm enjoying all your input to RU-vid. We are very different nations but we do have 'Ties that bind' and respect for one another cements the existing relationship further. Keep them coming!

The "Last Night" concerts have simultaneous events in other UK capitals, as well as in Hyde Park.

Makes me so overwhelmed with joy and tears when I see German flags in there. God bless you guys:)

If any of you "Johnny Foreigner " think the UK is asleep and fancy having a 'pop' at us, watch this, see the passion that the "Brits" have and think again... God made the Earth, but we built the World! "God save the Queen!"

Sal, standin the park with the huge crowd singing and enjoying it. It's great and the atmosphere in the park is awesome.

Dude.... you singing along to LOHAG - stellar! Really enjoyed this one 😃

That really makes me proud to be British, even brought a ter to my eye!

Thank you, from a born and bred brit, you obviously love history and completely understand it, love and kisses and a big hug from nottingham.❤❤❤

When we went to the Last Night, we were singing as loud as we could, but we couldn't hear ourselves...

Towards the end in a high shot of the orchestra you can just see a brown bust of a man. That is Sir Henry Wood,who gets a wreath around his head from the promenaders every year. I think Jerusalem would be a better anthem choice though. Done epically on the Last Night of course.

Its not really our second national anthem, God Save The Queen is our only national anthem. There are a few patriotic songs that are often sung at special occasions consisting of: Land of Hope and Glory, Rule Britannia, I Vow to Thee My Country and Jerusalem.

As a 62 yr old Royal Navy Veteran this is one of a few patriotic songs that brings me almost to tears

Thanks for you comments, intelligent remarks and enquiring mind

Hi, the piece of music is titled Pomp and Circumstance March Number 1. Land of Hope and Glory is the vocal part of the music often particularly when performed on its own. Elgar wrote 5 Pomp and Circumstance Marches. Number 4 is good. The National Anthem of the United Kingdom is God Save The Queen or King. That is played at all official occasions or where a British team is taking part e.g. the Olympics. However in many sports the constituent nations of the UK compete individually, they all have their own anthems except England who still mostly use the UK national anthem. There has been talk about what England could use. At the Commonwealth Games England did use Land of Hope and Glory but it was changed to Jerusalem after a public vote. Jerusalem is also played before the England cricket team play. That is also a Last Night of the Proms favourite. The prom was first broadcast on radio in 1927 and on tv in 1947 although only the Last Night was televised. The orchestra at the Last Night is normally the BBC symphony orchestra. The Proms were originally held in the Queens Hall in Langham Place, which coincidentally was to become the neighbour of the BBC when it was formed. They were moved to the RAH during WW2 when the Queen's Hall was bombed. They then moved again later in the war amid concerns the RAH would be bombed. They moved to the Bedford Corn Exchange. After the war they moved back to the RAH where they still are. Can't actually find why the BBC ceased to fund them.

Have to listen to Jerusalem now which is one of the three songs played there

I love your passion for most things English/British. You've clearly had lots of past lives in the UK!

I live in the area where Elgar composed a lot of his music. His piece Nimrod truly evokes the Malvern hills.

I went to a couple of concerts a few years ago with my music class (at RAH but not the Proms) where this song was performed. Since quite a few of us only knew the words for the first couple of lines, we made up lyrics for the rest of the chorus so that we could still join in the singing

THe proms was short for the promenade (basically you could get in cheep if you were willing to stand).