Queen's Hall was a concert hall in Langham Place, London, opened in 1893.
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10 Facts About Queen's Hall
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The main musical functions of the Queen's Hall were taken over by the Royal Albert Hall for the Proms, and the new Royal Festival Hall for the general concert season.
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The historian Robert Elkin speculates that the alternative "Victoria Concert Queen's Hall" was abandoned as liable to confusion with the "Royal Victoria Music Queen's Hall", the formal name of the Old Vic.
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Queen's Hall calculated that the unbroken surface and the wooden lining would be "like the body of the violin – resonant".
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Queen's Hall introduced major classical works, such as Beethoven symphonies, normally restricted to the more expensive concerts presented by the Philharmonic Society and others.
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The brass and woodwind players of the Queen's Hall Orchestra were unwilling to buy new low-pitched instruments; Cathcart imported a set from Belgium and lent them to the players.
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The members of the Queen's Hall Orchestra were not highly paid; Wood recalled in his memoirs, "the rank and file of the orchestra received only 45s a week for six Promenade concerts and three rehearsals, a guinea for one Symphony concert and rehearsal, and half-a-guinea for Sunday afternoon or evening concerts without rehearsal".
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William Boosey, the head of Chappells, and effective proprietor of the Queen's Hall, was adamantly against the broadcasting of music by the recently established British Broadcasting Company.
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Queen's Hall decreed that no artist who had worked for the BBC would be allowed to perform at the Queen's Hall.
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Former site of the Queen's Hall was redeveloped by the freeholder, the Crown Estate.
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