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  • subcontrabass
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 2780

    Originally posted by Flay View Post
    As in Concertgebouw? The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra = Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest

    But where to now?
    The order is chronological. The other two are some distance away.

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    • Flay
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 5795

      Of course the Konzerthaus in Berlin was built in stages - but you said not German...

      22.04.1776 "Französische Komödienhaus" (French Comedy House) opens
      05.12.1786 Reopens as National Theatre after refurbishment
      01.08.1787 Renamed the Royal National Theatre
      01.01.1802 The new theater building (1800/1801) designed by Karl Gotthard Langhans opens
      29.07.1817 The Langhans theatre building is destroyed by a fire
      19.11.1817 King Frederick William III of Prussia commissioned the construction of a new theater; Schinkel presents his designs in April 1818
      04.07.1818 Laying of the foundation stone
      26.05.1821 Opening ceremony of the new theater in the presence of the king
      27.11.1826 Berlin premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony no. 9 in D minor
      04.03.1829 Guest performance by the renowned violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini
      07.01.1844 Richard Wagner conducts the Berlin premiere of his opera "The Flying Dutchman"
      Oct 1919 Renamed State Theatre
      22.04.1945 Last concert evening before the Schauspielhaus is destroyed
      1979/1984 Rebuilding of the former Schauspielhaus as a concert hall
      01.10.1984 The Berlin Symphony Orchestra performs a gala concert on the occasion of the reopening of the Schauspielhaus as Konzerthaus
      25.12.1989 Leonard Bernstein conducts Beethoven's Symphony no. 9 including the "Ode to Freedom" with an international orchestra and choir
      Jan 1994 The Berlin Symphony Orchestra is officially nominated as the house's own orchestra
      May 2003 Opening of the Werner Otto Hall
      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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      • subcontrabass
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 2780

        Originally posted by Flay View Post
        Of course the Konzerthaus in Berlin was built in stages - but you said not German...
        Further east.

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        • Flay
          Full Member
          • Mar 2007
          • 5795

          as in The State Kremlin Palace??
          Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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          • Flay
            Full Member
            • Mar 2007
            • 5795

            Or The Kraków Philharmonic concert hall? << It is one of the largest concert halls in Kraków. It consists of a main hall of 693 seats for orchestral performances, and two smaller venues, the Golden Hall and the Blue Hall, for chamber music concerts. >>

            I'm going barmy. Time for a cuppa
            Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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            • subcontrabass
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 2780

              Originally posted by Flay View Post
              as in The State Kremlin Palace??
              Right city for the second link (but wrong institution).

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              • Norfolk Born

                Have anybody's crocuses popped up yet?

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                • subcontrabass
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 2780

                  A thread in "Performance" started at 11.32 today is relevant to K.

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                  • Nick Armstrong
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 26527

                    Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                    Further east.
                    Kirov?

                    I was thinking that meant Big as opposed to the Mali (small) theatre - remembering my time in Leningrad incorrectly, because of course it's Bolshoi that means Big, not Kirov... which I suspect is therefore wrong.

                    I'll shut up.

                    Edit: just seen the latest clue. So right City... But I need a strong coffee.
                    "...the isle is full of noises,
                    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                    • Flay
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 5795

                      Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post
                      A thread in "Performance" started at 11.32 today is relevant to K.
                      Well the first performance of Shostakovich's 4th Symphony was conducted by Kirill (Kyrill) Kondrashin. But I cannot see how this links with the riddle.
                      Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                      • subcontrabass
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 2780

                        Originally posted by Flay View Post
                        Well the first performance of Shostakovich's 4th Symphony was conducted by Kirill (Kyrill) Kondrashin. But I cannot see how this links with the riddle.
                        Two Ks for the price of one.

                        He was conductor in turn of the Maly Opera in Leningrad (1936-43), the Bolshoi Opera in Moscow (1943-56), and the Concertgebouw Orchestra (1975-81).


                        Flay is invited to set us an L.

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                        • amateur51

                          Originally posted by Norfolk Born View Post
                          Have anybody's crocuses popped up yet?
                          Snowdrops out near Hull on Boxing Day

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                          • Nick Armstrong
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 26527

                            Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                            Kirov?

                            I was thinking that meant Big as opposed to the Mali (small) theatre - remembering my time in Leningrad incorrectly, because of course it's Bolshoi that means Big, not Kirov...

                            B@gger, I wasn't far off... but busy barking up the wrong trees...

                            No change there, then
                            "...the isle is full of noises,
                            Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                            Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                            Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                            • Flay
                              Full Member
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 5795

                              Oh L, I bloomin' well asked for it! (Although I'm not quite sure how)

                              An L to link

                              Swan songs, passion and hope.
                              Pacta sunt servanda !!!

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                              • Don Petter

                                Originally posted by Flay View Post
                                Oh L, I bloomin' well asked for it! (Although I'm not quite sure how)

                                An L to link

                                Swan songs, passion and hope.
                                Last, Lust and Lost?

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