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The Glasgow International Concert Hall was officially opened on 5 October 1990 by Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (then the Scottish National Orchestra) gave the very first performance at the Royal Gala Opening Concert, [5] as a showpiece for Glasgow being awarded the European City of Culture. [4]
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Glasgow's first regular orchestral subscription concert series, played by an orchestra managed by the Glasgow Choral Union, was given in the grand hall from 1874 until the opening of the much larger St Andrew's Hall in 1877. Arthur Sullivan was its conductor for two seasons from 1875 to 1877. The Old Fruitmarket directly adjoins the grand hall ...
Glasgow 11 September 1878 500 Artistic Director – Dominic Hill: City Hall: Sheffield 22 September 1932 2,271 Civic Theatre: Rotherham 7 March 1960 356 Cochrane Theatre: London 1963–2012 314 Cockpit Theatre: London 1616–1665 220 Coliseum Theatre (Aberdare) Aberdare 17 September 1938 600 Coliseum Theatre: London 1904 2,558 Owner – English ...
The following is a list of active theatres and concert halls in Scotland. They are organised alphabetically by name. In rural areas, church halls and town halls may double up as theatres, and that many colleges and universities also have their own auditoria.
The Chorus performs a regular series of concerts each season, including the popular Christmas Cracker concert each December in the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.In recent years, these have included a string of lesser known works by very well known composers - Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem, Verdi’s Four Sacred Pieces, Holst’s Choral Symphony, Mendelssohn’s Die Erste Walpurgisnacht, Malcolm ...
The Barrowland Ballroom (also known as Barrowland and The Barras) is an entertainment venue, dance hall and music venue located in the Calton district in Glasgow, Scotland.. A prominent feature of the music scene in Glasgow, the venue has appeared in various elements of popular culture, notably tracks by Amy Macdonald and Simple Minds.
After this Blakemore turned to directing, becoming co-director in 1968 after his great success with Peter Nichols 's A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1967), which transferred to London that year and to Broadway in 1968. In the 1960s Glasgow Corporation decided to plan the construction of a new Theatre and Concert Hall in the city centre. [23]