This year's series of BBC promenade concerts (a major music event in the UK) takes place from 18 July to 13 September at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Prices are always reasonable and quality can be high. The full programme will be announced on this web-site on 9 April:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2007/
Highly recommended.

Seconded!Nowhere is there a better season of classical music and the admission prices are low.Every concert is broadcast live on BBC3 which means that they should all be accessible online, too.

I've just got back from a trip to the UK where I picked up a copy of this year's official BBC Guide to the Promenade Concerts on sale in a bookshop in the small town of Ashford (Kent). What surprised me enormously was that the the cover price of £6.99 had been reduced to £3.99. As the event doesn't even begin until July though, why such a reduction? If the official guide-book and detailed schedule is already selling for little more than half the original price, perhaps no one but Fred and me are interested in the Proms after all...

£3-99 must be a loss-leader for the cultured

More likely is that the shopkeeper knows that most people have already got one and wants to clear the remaining stock at rather less than the quite high cover price. The advanced booking started on the 21st of April and has almost ended (it ends on Monday next, the 19th of May)

Get six concerts booked now and qualify to buy a Last Night ticket at the same time !

I've booked in advance for 15 concerts this year,including one at the Cadogan Hall.The Cadogan Hall is delightful. It has excellent acoustics. It's a church building by Sloane Square which has been converted to a salon for chamber music.It attracts some excellent performers: the last performance I attended was by the Labeque sisters and the one before was by Angela Hewitt. It has a different feel to many halls. The locals are all music- loving Chelsea types, so, as you can imagine,the catering is a touch eccentric but upmarket.Not every hall offers you a bowl of olives as a pre-concert snack or has a proper wine merchant providing and serving the wines