Sunday, 28 November 2010
Royal Albert Hall,Advance tickets for 'The Matrix: Live'
See a high definition cinematic screening of the groundbreaking Oscar winner The Matrix, accompanied by Don Davis's film score performed by the NDR Pops Orchestra.Be part of a unique cinematic experience live at the Royal Albert Hall on Sunday 23 October 2011 at 7.45pm.
The Matrix was pivotal in the development of the science-fiction genre, exploring the border between reality and the virtual world and taking cinema into the 4th dimension.
The show's producers are releasing the tickets a year in advance and Extra members have the chance to buy tickets from Friday 26 November 2010, a week before they go on sale to the general public on Friday 3 December 2010.
Thursday, 18 November 2010
Kelly-Brook at Royal Albert Hall
Obviously, the burning topic of discussion was the future royal wedding, but we’re so sick to death of hearing about it we’re going to discuss Kelly Brook’s recent weight loss instead. That’s far more attractive, right?
The good looking model looked dieter than ever in her little black dress caught a nasty case of the skinnies while they were in LA?
Monday, 8 November 2010
Royal Albert Hall Upcoming shows
Following on from the highly successful ignite concerts in the Hall's Cafe concert and the Family ignite acts in the Elgar Room, Learning & Participation are proud to announce the release of Junior ignite in spring 2011! Learning & Participation will be working with Music for Youth to recognize young talented musicians from around London and the south of England and give them a unique performance opportunity at the Royal Albert Hall.
Junior ignite - Tuesday 8 February 2011
Taal Tarang. The performance will be at 12pm in the Cafe Consort. Entry will be free of charge.
Family ignite - Monday 21 February 2011 The Elgar Room
Continuing this series of famous half term family concerts, Learning & Participation's Albert's Band's next concert will be circus themed! These concerts are free and are at 12 and 3pm.
Junior ignite - Tuesday 8 March 2011
Norton's Dixie Kings. The performance will be at 12pm in the Cafe Consort. Entry will be free of charge.
National Science Week - Sunday 13 - Friday 18 March 2011
As part of National Science & Engineering Week, Y Touring Theatre Company will be performingMind The Gap. (A play about mental illness and neuroscience). The performance will be followed by a live debate with a leading scientist. This play will be appropriate for KS3, KS4 and post 16 students.
Tickets for this event will go on sale through the website on Monday 13 December 2010.
Last Night of The Proms - The Big Night of Royal Albert Hall
The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus will be joined by a Russian soprano and an American violinist whose star qualities will illuminate the climax of the Proms.
Jiri Belohlavek will conduct the Last Night of the Proms for the first time. Be there in the wash of exuberance and high spirit for the 2011 Last Night at the Proms. Get your the 2011 Last Night at the Proms tickets online now. Buy and sell your the 2011 Last Night at the Proms tickets here.
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Royal Albert Hall Chronology
8 April 1867 |
Queen Victoria signs the Royal Charter under which the hall is operated. A 999-year lease on the site was acquired at one shilling (five pence) per year. |
10 April 1867 |
Foundation works begin. |
20 May 1867 |
Queen Victoria lays the foundation stone. |
7 November 1867 |
The first brick is laid by Mrs. Henry Cole. |
December 1870 |
Queen Victoria visits the construction site. Her comment: "it looks like the British Constitution". |
25 February 1871 |
A full-scale sound test shows a major acoustical problem: echoes, reverberations and even some blind spots. A calico velarium awning is hung beneath the dome to correct the acoustics. It stays in place until 1949. |
29 May 1871 |
Opening. |
June 1874 |
The awning is lowered to improve acoustics further. The state-of-the-art ventilation system breaks down and is not re-instated until 2002. |
1888 |
The hall is lit electrically for the first time. The lights were installed by Anglo-American British Electric Company. |
1949 |
The velarium is replaced by an aluminum canopy. |
8 October 1950 |
The von Trapp family of Austria sings at the hall. The family was the inspiration for Rodger's and Hammerstein's musical "The Sound of Music". |
1969 |
Fiberglass diffusers are installed in the roof. |
1971 |
The hall is refurbished inside and outside for its centenary. |
1991 |
The first sumo wrestling turnament ever held outside Japan in 1500 years is staged in Albert Hall. |
1996 |
A lottery grant is awarded for the Halls re-development. |
January 2000 |
The hall is closed for a full month to refurbish the stall seating. |
26 June 2003 |
Stephen Fry interviews J.K. Rowling in the hall. She reads extracts from the fourth novel in the series "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". The reading is webcast live and followed by 28 million viewers. |
15 July 2003 |
The newly constructed south porch is unveiled. It is part of the Building Development Programme. The porch includes a 60 000 piece mosaic, a 200 seast cafe & restaurant ('Cafe Consort') and a new box office. |
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Royal Albert Hall - The Proms
Introduction To Royal Albert Hall
Albert Hall that is situated at Kensington road was opened in May, 1871. It is a big building of oval form in the style of the Italian revitalization, the materials of the concealment being entirely red brick and terra-cotta. The larger external diameter is 272 ft., interior 219 ft.; the less significant exterior 238 ft., interior 185 ft. The wall painting above the balcony was executed by Messrs. Minton, Hollins & Co., and is separated into compartments consists of allegorical designs by Messrs. Armitage, Armstead, Horsley, Marks, Pickersgill, Poynter, and Yeames. There are two box entrances -- on the east and west -- with a private doorway from the Horticultural Society's Gardens on the south side, and separate entrances on either side for the balcony, the gallery, and the area, and for the platforms on either side of the great organ. The interior, which is amphitheatrical in construction -- like, for example, the Coliseum at
Sunday, 7 November 2010
Gwent youngsters set to play at Royal Albert Hall
Gwent Music Support Service looking to explore the Welsh heritage and identity of the area and uses around 800 musicians and choristers from schools and music groups.
They will be spread into a number of ensembles around the hall performing several parts of the piece's four movements and coming together for an explosive last movement.
he work involves a choir of 550, made up of pupils from primary and secondary schools in Newport, Cwmbran, Ebbw Vale, Tredegar, Raglan, Caldicot, Caerleon, Rogerstone and Pontypool, and members of Greater Youth and Torfaen Music Centre Gospel Choirs.
Eighty trumpeters and 40 trombonists will also perform, along with African drummers, percussionists, timpanists, a Celtic band, the Great Gwent Cello and Bass Ensemble, harpists, flautists, clarinettists, and alto and soprano saxophonists.
The piece will also make use of the Royal Albert Hall organ.