Last Night of the Proms 2025
Bring your picnic, champagne, blankets and chairs to this open-air “Last Night of the Proms” classical concert.
The renowned Southampton Concert Orchestra, conducted by Paul Ingram, will be performing popular classics and all the usual Last Night of the Proms favourites, including Land of Hope and Glory and Rule Britannia.
Snacks for sale and on-site bar selling soft drinks, wines, beers and cocktails.
Please note for environmental reasons there will not be a firework display.
Gates open from 6.15pm
Booking is essential
Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Romsey
Saturday 6th September 2025 - 7:00pm
Ticket Prices:
Adult £26p/p
Child (2-16yrs): £15p/p
Early bird offer (Book before June)
Adult £20p/p
Child £11p/p
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*Please note once purchased all event tickets are non-refundable
**Tickets are not posted. You will be sent an email 1 month before the date of the concert informing you how to collect your wristbands for the evening.**
The Programme
Edward Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance
The Pomp and Circumstance Marches (full title Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches), are a series of five (or six) marches for orchestra composed by Sir Edward Elgar.
The first four were published between 1901 and 1907, when Elgar was in his forties; the fifth was published in 1930, a few years before his death; and a sixth, compiled posthumously from sketches, was published in 1956
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Waltz of the Flowers from the Nutcracker Suite
The "Waltz of the Flowers" (1892) is a piece of orchestral music from the second act of The Nutcracker, a ballet composed by Tchaikovsky.
Tchaikovsky told his fellow musicians he was working on a "fantastic" ballet called The Nutcracker: "It's awfully fun to write a march for tin soldiers, a waltz of the flowers, etc." The waltz is also the last number in his Nutcracker Suite.
Sir Hubert Parry
Jerusalem
"And did those feet in ancient time" is a poem by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton: A Poem in Two Books.
Today it is best known as the hymn "Jerusalem", with music written by Sir Hubert Parry in 1916. The famous orchestration was written by Sir Edward Elgar.