On Tour: Scotland, Edinburgh
Schubert: The Magic Harp Overture
Brahms: Violin concerto
Dvořák: Symphony No. 8
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Usher Hall is Edinburgh’s largest concert hall, built for this purpose in 1914 and used as such ever since. Flanked on the right by the Royal Lyceum Theatre, and by the Traverse Theatre on the left, it is one of the most significant cultural venues in the city and in all of Scotland, and is listed as one of the country’s most important historic monuments. The Budapest Festival Orchestra will be performing Schubert’s Magic Harp Overture, Brahms’ Violin Concerto andDvořák’s Symphony No. 8 at this location.
Usher Hall seats nearly 2200 people, and the exceptional acoustics of its recently refurbished main hall make it a favourite of concert-goers and performers alike. The hall’s founder and namesake was a Scottish whiskey-maker, Andrew Usher, who made his fortune in the production of spirits and donated the sum of 100,000 pounds to the city for the noble purpose of building a concert hall.
A call for tenders was issued in 1910, which received 130 bids. The plans from the Stockdale Harrison & Howard H. Thomson architectural firm of Leicester were selected as the winning bid. The cornerstone of the new concert hall was laid by George V and Queen Mary in July 1911. The walls are decorated with bas-reliefs (made by sculptor Harry Gamley) of famous composers such as Bach, Mozart, Brahms and Grieg, as well as important Scottish historical figures such as Walter Scott and Robert Burns. The concert hall was inaugurated in 1914 to the strains of compositions by Händel, Bach, Wagner, Beethoven and Scottish composer Haamish MacCunn. Its namesake however, did not live to see this festive occasion, as Andrew Usher died before construction on the hall began. Since that time, the hall has been used for a variety of cultural and political events besides music – in fact, its ornate walls even housed a boxing tournament in 1986. Since the beginning of the Edinburgh Festival, Usher Hall has been one of its main venues. it was here that, at the festival’s first edition in 1947, Bruno Walter conducted the Vienna Philharmonic. Online tickets
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