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In the wasp-waist era, during slow movements of the music, the thuds of corseted ladies falling in faints were often audible at the proms. At last week's jubilee concert, no casualties were reported, although fainting in the dense crowd is not uncommon even today. A few years ago, a woman fainted during a symphony. Her husband, as respectful of music as most London promenaders, waited until the end of the movement before he carried her out of the hall.