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Here’s your daily 2024\u00a0BBC Proms<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0preview from BBC Music Magazine<\/em>. This morning we’re looking at Prom 67<\/strong> (Monday 9 September), featuring works from Vaughan Williams<\/a><\/strong>, Schoenberg<\/a><\/strong> and Shostakovich<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p> Keep coming back to\u00a0www.classical-music.com<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0during this last week of the Proms – it all culminates with the\u00a0Last Night of the Proms<\/a><\/strong> on Saturday 14 September. Every day this Proms season we’re previewing the daily Proms concerts at the Royal Albert Hall<\/a><\/strong>, including performers, repertoire and more. And, to see all of this year’s Proms in one place (in London and at six other UK cities), just head over to our\u00a02024 BBC Proms guide<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p> Today is Prom 67. <\/strong>And we begin with a much-loved British orchestral piece. The\u00a0Fantasia on \u2018Greensleeves\u2019 <\/em>was arranged by Ralph Greaves from Vaughan Williams’s treatment of folk tunes in his opera\u00a0Sir John in Love<\/em>, which draws on Shakespeare’s play The Merry Wives of Windsor<\/em>. <\/p> A widely held myth goes that the melody for ‘Greensleeves’ was written by\u00a0King Henry VIII. However, this cannot actually be true, as the tune is based on a particular form of musical composition that only arrived in England from Italy after Henry’s death.<\/p>What’s on at the BBC Proms today?<\/h2>
Did Henry VIII write Greensleeves?<\/h3>