But there can be no doubt that some of the more recent milestones - baby showers, 16th birthdays and proms - have been inspired by America.
As a composer, Berkeley has written for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the BBC Proms and the Royal Ballet.
In the past he has worked with the Santa Fe Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony and the BBC Proms.
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Coming up for Benedetti is a prestigious appearance at Last Night of The Proms and a major tour of Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
Born near Worcester, Elgar is best known for the Pomp and Circumstance marches, which include Proms favourite Land of Hope and Glory.
To be clear, the separate proms are likely completely legal as Wilcox County High School is uninvolved with the financing and staging of the proms.
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Roger Wright, controller of BBC Radio 3 and director of BBC Proms said they were thrilled with this year's venue.
On Friday, St Andrews Hall tries to recreate the Last Night of the Proms with spirited and vocal participation.
Competition for viewers included Channel Five's Celebrity Big Brother, which took 1.5m viewers and 7.6% of the audience in an identical timeslot, C4's Million Pound Drop and BBC Two's Proms coverage.
Finally, the Beeb has lined up what it's calling the "Summer of 3D" with a lineup that includes Planet of the Dinosaur, Last Night of the Proms, Wimbledon and the Olympics.
He made his Proms debut in 1976 and his opera debut in 1977 at the Glyndebourne Festival.
Aldeburgh Music runs the Aldeburgh Festival, Snape Proms, music projects and other concerts.
That brought in Flintoff to a wonderfully warm, stirring ovation, somewhere between a heavyweight title fight at Madison Square Gardens and The Last Night of the Proms.
Premier League football matches in the capital, BBC Proms in the Park and the Thames Festival are also expected to heap more pressure on the transport network during the Games.
The Last Night of the Proms will be screened live and in 3D in selected cinemas for the first time next month.
She self-released a debut album called Age Of Solo in 2008 and a year later performed for the BBC Electric Proms.
The first BBC Electric Proms was held two years ago when Damon Albarn and Paul Simonon's The Good, The Bad and The Queen played their debut live show.
After all, the teenage years are often full of angst about dating, proms, learning how to drive, going to college and so on.
The piece of music is also known as Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 and is sung with much gusto at every Last Night of the Proms.
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For example, the BBC Proms will last across the entire period of the Olympic and Paralympic Games so will be part of the BBC's 2012 Cultural celebrations.
Former director of the Proms concerts Nicholas Kenyon is knighted, while while playwright and author Hanif Kureishi - best known for his 1990 novel The Buddha of Suburbia - becomes a CBE.
That is a one-sided caricature, of course, and one of the many good things in this year's fine Proms season is to be able to parade so much French music in all its rich diversity.
Also in Hyde Park will be the now popular Proms In the Park event, to be mirrored by concerts in Liverpool and Birmingham.
Segregated proms are a longstanding reality in this farming community 160 miles south of Atlanta, and until recently, at several schools nearby.
Other Proms highlights include a series of concerts devoted to Christian music, under the theme God and Music, in celebration of the 2, 000th anniversary of the birth of Christ.
The Proms in the Park series will include two new venues - Centre Square, Middlesbrough, and Carrickfergus Castle, Northern Ireland - in addition to concerts in Swansea, Glasgow and London.
Roger Wright, the Controller of Radio 3 told us that there should be something for everyone and that although they haven't announced it yet, young people will be part of the 2012 Proms.
She knew long ago that proms were segregated, but she didn't think much about it till last year, when she and three friends first realized they'd be split up.
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