Temperature and Comfort IN RAH

[Ferretfancy]

In my experience the left / right rule is an urban myth which probably arose when they had a line on the floor to separate the season ticket holders from the people in the day queue. This was done away with after complaints from the season ticket holders who saw it as unjust.

[Flosshilde]

I can now confirm that it is very hot! The bank of television floodlights being beamed onto the audience between works does not help. It's worth putting up with though; I can assure ucanseetheend that it IS bearable - just.

Surely it's not just the TV lights - there seems to be a trend for lighting effects with coloured lights on the stage & in the hall. Or are they just for the televised concerts?

[salymap]

I don't like all those coloured lights, whether for TV or the garish trailers.

The RAH should be fawn and brown with red seats in the stalls etc. Thw lights cheapen the effect to me.

I'm confused as to what they've done with the two platform slopes that artists used to get to their dressing rooms- and orchestras to the 'bull run' and BAR.

[MrGongGong]

I'm really looking forward to an ethnomusicology Phd on the strange tribe that take ownership of these concerts and their bizarre rituals and practices

Surely it's not just the TV lights - there seems to be a trend for lighting effects with coloured lights on the stage & in the hall. Or are they just for the televised concerts?

I blame Skryabin

[Flosshilde]

I don't like all those coloured lights, whether for TV or the garish trailers.

I agree on the whole, but they did look rather effective for the 'Sea Symphony'.

[VodkaDilc]

Surely it's not just the TV lights - there seems to be a trend for lighting effects with coloured lights on the stage & in the hall. Or are they just for the televised concerts?

The long band of coloured illuminated illustrations either side of Wood's bust look hideous in the hall - though I had not noticed them on television.

I admit that the lights in the hall must add to the heat, but the television floodlights which light up the audience in the breaks are enormous. Very much like football stadium floodlights and blinding to those sitting opposite.

[Petrushka]

The long band of coloured illuminated illustrations either side of Wood's bust look hideous in the hall - though I had not noticed them on television.

I admit that the lights in the hall must add to the heat, but the television floodlights which light up the audience in the breaks are enormous. Very much like football stadium floodlights and blinding to those sitting opposite.

The lights either side of Sir HW are not only hideous but totally naff and unnecessary. Amusing that you haven't noticed them on the TV as that does seem to be the reason they are there!

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm really looking forward to an ethnomusicology Phd on the strange tribe that take ownership of these concerts and their bizarre rituals and practices




I blame Skryabin

Well, I think it's funny!

[PhilipT]

In my experience the left / right rule is an urban myth which probably arose when they had a line on the floor to separate the season ticket holders from the people in the day queue. This was done away with after complaints from the season ticket holders who saw it as unjust.

The "line on the floor" was introduced in 1993 "in the interests of fairness", and abolished in 2000, again "in the interests of fairness", but the general sense among regular Prommers that there should be an equal distribution predated it. Shortly after the abolition there was an NYO Prom (the NYO are notorious for attracting an audience that does not know how to behave at a concert) where the stewards screwed up and admitted one queue into the Hall before the other. In the following year the current system of admitting the queues into the Arena (not just into the Hall) simultaneously was introduced.

[Sir Velo]

the NYO are notorious for attracting an audience that does not know how to behave at a concert

Philip, can you explain what you mean by that comment please?

[MrGongGong]

Philip, can you explain what you mean by that comment please?

I guess he means that this



is a little inappropriate ?

Why no argument about clapping between movements this year ?
I'm most disappointed

[Ferretfancy]

Philip, can you explain what you mean by that comment please?

I'm not sure if this answers your question, but there was a group who used to stand on the rail at the right whose behaviour got so yobbish that they were eventually banned by the hall management. This may explain wht the ironic and sometimes amusing "shouts" are nowadays very rare and not much missed.

NYO concerts actually get truly appreciative audiences in the Arena

PS Just seen the picture, it was taken during a Giulini performance of the the Verdi Requiem in 1968, it was quite hard to concentrate, if I recall.

[amateur51]

I'm really looking forward to an ethnomusicology Phd on the strange tribe that take ownership of these concerts and their bizarre rituals and practices




I blame Skryabin

Top post, Mr GG!

[Petrushka]

Philip, can you explain what you mean by that comment please?

I know what he means. The Albert Hall is stuffed full of relatives and friends of those on stage most of whom are there just to watch their relatives/friends perform on one of the great concert platforms in the world. The music is a secondary and minor detail.

[ucanseetheend]

I know what he means. The Albert Hall is stuffed full of relatives and friends of those on stage most of whom are there just to watch their relatives/friends perform on one of the great concert platforms in the world. The music is a secondary and minor detail.

True and often the performances are not always what the reviewers and BBC Proms presenters would have us believe. Listening to the "over inflated opinion" they have of some performances doesnt reflect well on their profession, Only 1 or maybe 2 presenters/reviewers opinion on the BBC I value.