London Concert Halls in 1900: The Royal Albert Hall

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Arthur H. Beavan continued his survey of London's musical entertainment, in Imperial London, published in 1901, with this look at the Royal Albert Hall:

For Oratorios and for Grand Operatic Concerts, the Royal Albert Hall in the Kensington Road is unsurpassed; and its Sunday afternoon Royal Artillery string-band concerts are most popular.

It is a remarkable building, and at a distance looks not unlike a gigantic raised pate.

Its interior is amphitheatrical in shape, like the Colosseum.

Just beneath the domed glass roof is a gallery, encircling the building and ornamented by thirty Italian arches, with standing room for many hundreds of people.

Immediately below is the spacious balcony with countless seats; then come three tiers of private boxes, and a splendid amphitheatre enclosing a central area, 102 x 68 feet.

The great organ, with its 32-feet pipes, dominates one end of the elliptical hall, the vast orchestra being below and on each side of it.

Ten thousand human beings can be readily got into this big building, and so numerous are the exits, that they can as easily be dispersed.

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