[The listening experience is part of Edward Stewart-Humphries’ recollections of enjoying London’s Music Halls, 1903 – 1906, when he worked as a page boy and similar jobs at hotels and private clubs]. 

A ticket for a Sunday Orchestral Concert at the Alhambra was passed on to me and I remember sitting in the stalls, lonely and bewildered, wearing my jockey cap (then the vogue for lads) surrounded by gentry and longing for the first interval so as to escape into Leicester Square.