The Proms organ. This coincided with the adoption of this lower pitch by other leading orchestras and concert series. Although the concerts gained a popular following and reputation, Newman went bankrupt in 1902, and the banker Edgar Speyer took over the expense of funding them. Wood received a knighthood in 1911. In 1914 anti-German feeling led Speyer to surrender his role, and music publishers Chappell & Co. took control of the concerts. Although Newman remained involved in artistic planning, it was Wood's name which became most closely associated with the Proms. As conductor from the first concert (which opened with Wagner's "Rienzi"
Santiago de Espada Santiago de Espada Santiago de Espada is a concert overture by the Australian composer Malcolm Williamson. Written in 1956 when Williamson was barely 25, it was his first mature orchestral work. The overture was first heard in June 1957 when the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult included it in a private concert at St. Pancras Town Hall, London (an event which also featured the première of Williamson's Symphony No. 1 "Elevamini"). Despite this, it wasn't until a broadcast in February 1958 that the work had its first public airing. The overture was not performed in Australia until