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This break from tradition prompted outrage from some members of the public, the media and some politicians, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson who accused the BBC of "cringing embarrassment about our history". ĭuring the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the BBC announced a decision not to feature "Land of Hope and Glory" as well as " Rule, Britannia!" in the Last Night of the Proms running order. In an exception, for the 2001 Last Night concert following the September 11 attacks, the conductor Leonard Slatkin substituted a more serious programme, featuring Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings", but despite the success of this occasion, the now traditional pieces returned the following year. In some years, "Land of Hope and Glory" and the other favourites were left out of the programme but reinstated after press and public outrage. The Last Night of the Proms was broadcast annually on television from 1953 onwards, and Promenaders began dressing up outrageously and waving flags and banners during the climax of the evening. By then, audience participation in the second half of the programme had become a ritual, and from 1947 a boisterous 'tradition' was created by the conductor Malcolm Sargent, making "Land of Hope and Glory" part of a standard programme for the event. "Land of Hope and Glory" featured in the final concerts for 1928, 1929, 19. From 1927, the BBC began supporting the Proms, with radio broadcasts bringing the music to an increasingly wide audience.

The two pieces were played one after another at the closing concerts in 1916, 19. It was played as "Land of Hope and Glory" in the last concert of the 1905 proms, and at the first and last concerts of the 1909 Proms, which also featured Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs. 1 was introduced as an orchestral piece (a year before the words were written), conducted by Henry Wood who later recollected "little did I think then that the lovely broad melody of the trio would one day develop into our second national anthem". The Proms began in 1895 in 1901 Elgar's newly composed 'Pomp and Circumstance' March No. God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet!Ī pride that dares, and heeds not praise, God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet, Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set

How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee? Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, This stanza is the part which is popularly sung today. In fact, only the first of the seven stanzas of the Ode's final section was re-used, as the first four lines of the second stanza below. Elgar created a separate song, which was first performed by Madame Clara Butt in June 1902. Owing to the King's illness, the coronation was postponed. The first five notes of the refrain are similar to the first two bars of God Save the King in an early version published in 1745.

The last section of the Ode uses the march's melody. When Elgar was requested to write a work for the King's coronation, he worked the suggestion into his Coronation Ode, for which he used words provided by the poet and essayist A. The words were fitted to the melody on the suggestion of King Edward VII who told Elgar he thought the melody would make a great song. The music to which the words of the refrain 'Land of Hope and Glory, &c' below are set is the 'trio' theme from Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No.