in Royal Festival Hall - between 12 June, 1951 and 23 September, 1960
from Southbank Centre Archive:
I remember my first visit to the RFH on June 12th 1951. We sat right at the back of the Grand Tier. The programme (which I sill have) consisted of Elgar - The Music Makers and Dypan (?) The Canterbury Pilgrims and I wonder how many times the Dypan has been performed since. The most memorable concert in the early days was the Shostakovich Symphony No. 8 played by the Leningrad Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mravinoky (?) on September 23rd 1960. This time I sat near the front of the stalls and the performance and the sound was shattering - never to be forgotten!
Southbank Centre (ed.), Southbank Centre Archive. In Southbank Centre Archive. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1449514389632 accessed: 20 December, 2024 (Southbank Centre Archive, http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/about-us/history-and-archive/southbank-centre-archive)
Listening to
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The Canterbury Pilgrims
written by George Dyson |
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The Music Makers
written by Edward Elgar |
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Symphony no. 8
written by Dmitri Shostakovich |
performed by Yevgeny Mravinsky, Leningrad Symphony Orchestra |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | between 12 June, 1951 and 23 September, 1960 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |