Royal Albert Hall (Intro)

The Royal Albert Hall is an arts venue situated in the Knightsbridge area of the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941.

The Royal Albert Hall is one of the UK's most treasured and distinctive buildings, recognisable the world over. Since its opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from every kind of performance genre have appeared on its stage.

History:In 1851 the Great Exhibition was held in Hyde Park, London, for which the so-called Crystal Palace was built. The exhibition was a great success and led Prince Albert, the Prince Consort, to propose that a permanent series of facilities be built in the area for the enlightenment of the public. Progress on the scheme was slow and in 1861 Prince Albert died, without having seen his ideas come to fruition. However, a memorial was proposed for Hyde Park, with a Great Hall opposite.Once the remaining funds had been raised, in April 1867 Queen Victoria signed the Royal Charter of the Corporation of the Hall of Arts and Sciences which was to operate the Hall and on 20 May, laid the foundation stone.

The Hall was designed by Captain Francis Fowke and Major-General Henry Y.D. Scott of the Royal Engineers and built by Lucas Brothers. The designers were heavily influenced by ancient amphitheaters, but had also been exposed to the ideas of Gottfried Semper while he was working at the South Kensington Museum. The recently opened Cirque d'Hiver in Paris was seen in the contemporary press as the design to outdo. The Hall was constructed mainly of Fareham Red brick, with terra cotta block decoration made by Gibbs and Canning Limited of Tamworth. The dome on top was made of steel and glazed. There was a trial assembly made of the steel framework of the dome in Manchester, then it was taken apart again and transported down to London via horse and cart. When the time came for the supporting structure to be removed from the dome after re-assembly in situ, only volunteers remained on site in case the structure dropped. It did drop - but only by five-eighths of an inch. The Hall was scheduled to be completed by Christmas Day 1870 and the Queen visited a few days beforehand to inspect. She was reported as saying "It looks like the British Constitution".

The Proms is a popular eight-week summer season of daily classical music concerts and other events held annually at the Albert Hall since moving from the Queens Hall in 1941. The event was founded in 1895, and now each season consists of over 70 concerts in the Albert Hall, in addition to a series of events at other venues across the United Kingdom on the last night.

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Sharleen Spiteri and Kim Wilde in Charleroi

Saturday April 24, Night of the Proms blows the roof of the RTL Spiroudôme in Charleroi with a prestigious programme. Sharleen Spiteri, the lead singer of Texas, and Kim Wilde are announced for the 7th edition of Night of the Proms in the French speaking part of Belgium. They will perform their greatest hits under the accompaniment of the symphonic orchestra Il Novecento led by Robert Groslot.
Sharleen Spiteri and her band Texas made a spectacular debut with the song “I Don’t Want A Lover”. With a mix of electropop and hiphop Texas scored hits such as “Say What You Want”, “Black Eyed Boy”, “Put Your Arms Around Me”, “Summer Son” and “Inner Smile”. Sharleen Spiteri was a guest at Night of the Proms in Antwerp in 2006.
Kim Wilde is an icon of British pop music from the eighties. She made her debut in 1981 with the new wave classic “Kids In America”. In 1987 she was in the American charts with her version of the song “You Keep Me Hangin ‘On”, originally by The Supremes. Other hits from her are “Cambodia”, “Checkered Love” and “You Came”. Together with the German singer Nena she scored the hit “Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime”. In 2007, Kim Wilde toured with Night of the Proms in Germany.
On April 24 the Night of the Proms-fans in the French speaking part of Belgium will be able to enjoy the music from Sharleen Spiteri and Kim Wilde.


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The London Proms 2010

For 100 years The Proms 2010 has been the best known season of classical music in the UK, starting the popular season in July and ending in September. A varied but accessible programme regularly draws huge audiences to the Hyde Park in Kensington, London.

The aim of The Proms has been to mix the popular and familiar with the innovative and fresh and those who love classics and expect to hear some favourite piece might be surprised to discover a new composer.

The Proms '10 at the Hyde Park in London are affordable to anyone. With standing ticket for each Proms concert costing only five pounds, the event is a bargain considering its top international orchestras and soloists. Each Proms concert is an opportunity for the audience to indulge in a real sense of fun for very much less than the price of a cinema ticket.

The Proms in London also includes a series of chamber music concerts at Cadogan Hall along with outdoor events across the country. You are best advised to arrive early to queue for tickets for the biggest stars and be prepared to queue overnight for entrance to the Last Night of the Proms.

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With 17 separate items, attending the Last Night of the Proms these days is a bit like shopping at Tesco. If you don’t like taramasalata, there’s always four varieties of houmous. Among the spiciest dips on Saturday was the glamorous Alison Balsom playing Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto with a beguiling soft-edged sound, then dazzling in Piazzolla’s Libertango. She could have stolen the show, but the mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly pipped her by appearing in no fewer than four different guises (and costumes): regal in the Lament from Purcell’s Dido; darkly expressive in Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; smoochy-voiced in Gershwin; then magnificently decked out as Admiral Hornblower, or maybe Captain Pugwash, in Rule, Britannia!

Between all this came two joyous rarities — Oliver Knussen’s thrilling little Flourish with Fireworks and Villa-Lobos’ pulsating Chôros No 10, vibrantly hurled out by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus — and some funny nonentities, such as Ketèlbey’s maudlin 1915 hit In a Monastery Garden and Henry Wood’s hilariously overblown mistreatment of Purcell, New Suite. That wasn’t the evening’s most preposterous item.

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In the early days of the Twinning Association's existence it was clear that a major fund raising event would need to be arranged, ideally one which could be run on an annual basis. As the Association had developed from the Town Council (link to history page) a couple of former Town Councillors, Len Wilkes and Tom Bickley, together with the then Town Clerk, Mike Wilson, approached the Ransome Band to investigate the possibility of a joint event. The end result of their discussions was the "Last Night of the Proms". The inaugural event was held in the Sconce Hills School Hall in 1984 and so was born one of the most popular concerts in Newark’s musical calendar. 

  

It wasn’t long before the success of the "Last Night of the Proms" meant that the school hall was no longer a suitable venue. The only real choice for a larger venue was the Palace Theatre and the concert has been held there ever since. 

  

Experiments have been undertaken with the format. To satisfy demand for tickets a second night was added but after several years the Friday evening was dropped in favour of a Saturday matinee. Unfortunately, this was not a successful move and the 2008 event reverted to two nights. 

  

The Ransome Band, who have changed their sponsors and, therefore, name several times over the period of our partnership have always played a big part in each years concert. However, there has always been variety in the rest of the programme – male voice choirs, solo singers, double acts, school choirs, the Newark Amateur Operatic Society and even a World Champion whistler have all featured over the years.

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Some of the audience wear patriotic T-shirts, others dinner jackets. Union Jacks are waved during Rule Britannia.

Seats for the final night sell out quickly; to get a Last Night of the Proms ticket one must also attend several other Proms in the season. Prom tickets are no more expensive for the Last Night than for other concerts, but many promenaders queue overnight and all day to get a good space.

To accommodate some of the many people who can't get a ticket, a Proms in the Park concert is held in Hyde Park opposite the Royal Albert Hall, the Proms' main venue. A live big-screen links up with the hall for the finale and people usually get into the spirit outside too.

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How the last Night of Proms has been hijacked

Accessible, that is, except on one evening. Newspapers last weekend carried an advert from an agency called Sports Exclusive. It offered tickets to the Last Night of the Proms. Televised live to 40 million people worldwide, and enjoyed in the Royal Albert Hall by Prommers who, in many cases, will sleep on the pavements to secure the best spots in the arena, the Last Night is the most famous event in the music calendar. Tickets are like gold-dust. The BBC, which runs the Proms, could probably sell out the hall ten times over.

Sports Exclusive seems to recognise that, to judge from its prices. Recession? What recession? Stalls seats (face value £82.50) are offered for £995. But if you want to sit with nine chums in a grand tier box, the show will cost you £14,995. Mind you, that does include “a three-course supper and wine with your own box waitress”. (Gosh, I hope she’s fresh. How long do they keep her in the box?) What sort of people, in the present climate, can splash out the equivalent of a year’s wage for a supermarket worker on ten concert tickets? It’s a fascinating question, but not half as fascinating as the question of where the tickets come from.

Not the BBC, that’s for sure. The Proms brochure details the elaborate procedures by which the BBC tries to ensure that ordinary music-lovers, rather than fat cats, fill the hall at the Last Night. One way is to buy a season ticket and stand in the arena through the whole summer of concerts — all 76 of them. The second is to buy seats for no fewer than five other Proms. Even then you aren’t guaranteed a Last Night ticket, and you can’t return the other tickets if you don’t get one. And the third way is to enter the Last Night ballot, by which 100 tickets are allocated. But thousands of people go in for that.

The answer is that the Albert Hall ain’t what it seems. Its management has projected a cosy image of it as “the nation’s village hall”: a revered arena that happily houses everything from boxing to ballet to the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance. But this masks an awkward truth. Many of its boxes and hundreds of seats (perhaps a fifth of its seating capacity) are permanently owned by individuals or companies. When the hall was opened in 1871 its seats were flogged off on 999-year leases called debentures. Some are still owned by the same families; others have been sold on. Last year a grand tier box was put up for sale at £1.2 million. It’s big business. And the reason is obvious. Owners can cash in handsomely on events such as the Last Night by flogging their seats.

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