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The Good Old Days (1953 to 1983) was a popular BBC television light entertainment programme recorded live at the Leeds City Varieties, which aimed to recreate an authentic atmosphere of the Victorian–Edwardian music hall with songs and sketches of the era performed by present-day performers in the style of the original artistes.
Music Hall, Britain's first form of commercial mass entertainment, emerged, broadly speaking, in the mid-19th century, and ended (arguably) after the First World War, when the halls rebranded their entertainment as Variety. [1]
Settle Victoria Hall was restored in 2000, under the management of the newly formed Settle Victoria Hall Ltd, [1] [6] a charity, which was established in 1999 and presents a wide programme of drama, [7] comedy, film, and music [8] [9] as well as community events, workshops, and indoor markets. [10] The building is owned by Craven District Council.
Music hall songs were sung in the music halls by a variety of artistes. Most of them were comic in nature. There are a very large number of music hall songs, and most of them have been forgotten. In London, between 1900 and 1910, a single publishing company, Francis, Day and Hunter, published between forty and fifty songs a month.
The Canterbury Music Hall was established in 1852 by Charles Morton on the site of a former skittle alley adjacent to the Canterbury Tavern at 143 Westminster Bridge Road, Lambeth. It was one of the first purpose-built music halls in London , and "probably the largest and grandest concert-room ever attached to a public house" in London. [ 2 ]
Along with Hoxton Hall and Wilton's Music Hall (both in London), it is a rare surviving example of a Victorian era music hall. [1] The interior is a long rectangle, with cast-iron columns with foliage capitals supporting two bow-fronted balconies, the upper tier of which received minor modifications in the 1880s. [1]
Opened in 1856 is the oldest opera house in South America. ... Music Hall (Cincinnati ... State Theatre, Arts Centre Melbourne (also known as the Victorian Arts ...
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), who performed in the Holywell Music Room. The Holywell Music Room is the city of Oxford's chamber music hall, situated on Holywell Street in the city centre, and is part of Wadham College. Built in 1748, it is said to be the oldest purpose-built music room in Europe, and hence Britain's first concert hall.