When did BBC Proms Season 53 Episode 1 air?
BBC Proms Season 53 Episode 1 aired on July 16, 1999.


The World's Greatest Classical Music Festival. The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and in recent years has explored an innovative series of Proms around the UK with concerts in all four nations. Its aim: to bring the best in classical music to the widest possible audience, which remains true to founder-conductor Henry Wood’s original vision in 1895. Whether you are a classical connoisseur or think classical music isn’t for you, there is something for everyone in the eight-week stretch of concerts.
Composer Michael Berkeley introduces live coverage - broadcast simultaneously with Radio 3 -of Michael Tippett 's The Mask of Time. This visionary and final statement ofTippett's, drawing together through words and music his opinions of mankind and man's place in the universe, is the opening concert of the BBC Prom season, performed at London's Royal Albert Hall.
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BBC Proms Season 53 Episode 1 aired on July 16, 1999.
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