London Symphony Orchestra
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The London Symphony Orchestra is a British ensemble based in London. Founded in 1904, the LSO is the oldest of London's symphony orchestras. It was created by a group of players who left Henry Wood's
The London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican
Clockwise from top left: Adolf Borsdorf, Thomas Busby, John Solomon and Henri van der Meerschen, founding fathers of the LSO
Elgar and the LSO, Queen's Hall, 1911
Sir Thomas Beecham, benefactor of the wartime LSO
Queen's Hall
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The Queen's Hall was a concert hall in Langham Place, London, opened in 1893. Designed by the architect Thomas Knightley, it had room for an audience of about 2,500 people. It became London's principa
Queen's Hall from Langham Place, 1912
Knightley's plan for the platform level of the hall
Robert Newman, manager of the Queen's Hall Orchestra from 1893 to 1926
Royal concert in 1893