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• Chineke!/ Heyward/ Angel Blue review – belated premiere for forgotten Black composer  The Guardian
  
• BBC Proms 2026 on Sunday morning August 23 @ Royal Albert Hall, London. Academy of St Martin in the Fields. [Apropos Thea Musgrave’s Bassoon Concerto (for Amy Harman)/Posted for the record.]  Colin's Column
  
• Stripped back drama & strong musical values: Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos from Glyndebourne Opera at the BBC Proms  planethugill.com
  
• Review: BBC PROMS:ARIADNE AUF NAXOS, Royal Albert Hall  BroadwayWorld
  
• Star-Studded Line-Up Revealed For Bob Harris Celebration At London's Royal Albert Hall  Stereoboard.com
  

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, England. It has a seating capacity of 5,272.

Since the hall's opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's leading artists from many performance genres have appeared on its stage. It is the venue for the BBC Proms concerts, which have been held there every summer since 1941. It is host to more than 390 shows in the main auditorium annually, including classical, rock and pop concerts, ballet, opera, film screenings with live orchestral accompaniment, sports, awards ceremonies, school and community events, and charity performances and banquets. A further 1,000 events are held each year in the non-auditorium spaces. Over its 155-year history, the hall has hosted events of a wide variety, including meetings held by suffragettes; speeches from Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle, and Albert Einstein; fights by Lennox Lewis; exhibition bouts by Muhammad Ali; and concerts from regular performers at the venue such as Eric Clapton and Shirley Bassey.

The hall was originally to have been called the Central Hall of Arts and Sciences, but the name was changed to the Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences by Queen Victoria upon laying the hall's foundation stone in 1867, in memory of her husband, Prince Albert, who had died six years earlier. It forms the practical part of a memorial to the Prince Consort; the decorative part is the Albert Memorial directly to the north in Kensington Gardens, now separated from the hall by Kensington Gore.

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