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
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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The BBC Symphony Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. Founded in 1930, it was the first permanent salaried orchestra in London, and is the only one of the city's five major symphony orche
BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall
The BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican in October 2012
John Reith, Director-General of the BBC
Guest conducting the BBC SO in the 1930s: from top left, clockwise, Beecham, Koussevitzky, Mengelberg, Richard Strauss, Toscanini, Walter, Webern, Weingartner