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	Wigmore Hall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The hall opened on 31 May 1901 with a concert featuring the virtuoso pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni and violinist Eugène Ysaÿe.
		Because of its German ownership the hall was seized as enemy property during World War I but re-opened as the Wigmore Hall in 1917.
		On May 5, 2005 the hall announced that it is to set up its own record label later in the year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wigmore_Hall (277 words)

	All Things Strings: News & Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This year Wigmore Hall is celebrating 100 years as the jewel in the crown of London’s music scene.
		In the hall itself, one’s eye is drawn to the stage and the cupola above, which is decorated with an extraordinary mural (and which benefited from a thorough cleaning during a major refurbishment of the hall in the early 1990s).
		In the next decades, although the hall survived the Blitz, it became somewhat neglected as attention was focused on the construction of new halls across London.
	www.stringsmagazine.com /issues/strings95/Newsprof.shtml (789 words)

	Venue: Wigmore Hall
		Built in 1901 by the Bechstein piano company, Wigmore Hall is justifiably regarded as one of the world's great recital halls, attracting the leading classical musicians of our time and often setting the standard for international chamber music and song.
		Wigmore Hall has enthusiastically embraced technology in gaining an extensive new audience without greatly interfering with this ambience.
		The Hall has just undergone a major restoration and refurbishment during the summer of 2004, including new seats and air conditioning in the auditorium and more space in the public areas.
	www.philharmonia.co.uk /concerts/venues/wigmorehall (228 words)

	Arts Hub - "Vibrant change is in the air at London’s Wigmore Hall" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wigmore Hall’s Executive Director, John Gilhooly says, ‘these generous donors appreciate the Hall’s musical values which are at the heart of everything we do.
		Wigmore Hall is run as a charitable trust with a financial policy of break-even or better.
		Wigmore Hall with its renovations and the arrival of some new and exciting musical ideas from Paul Kildea is going to become a different concert hall.
	www.artshub.co.uk /ah1/process/printnews.asp?ContentID=55247 (2628 words)

	Wigmore Hall
		Wigmore Hall is renowned for its excellent acoustics and intimate atmosphere – it has just 550 seats compared with nearly 6000 at the Royal Albert Hall.
		The hall and the foyer are beautiful examples of renaissance style architecture and many original characteristics remain – gas-lights in the auditorium are still lit for every concert.
		Wigmore Hall Education provides one of the broadest education programmes amongst the capital’s arts organisations and derives its inspiration from the Hall’s rich artistic programme.
	www.infomat.net /infomat/rd741/rd1/database/wigmorehall/index.asp (482 words)

	Wigmore Hall, London W1 : tourist information from TourUK
		This concert hall for chamber music was designed in 1900 by T E Collcutt, the architect of the Savoy Hotel, for Friedrich Bechstein, a German piano manufacturer.
		During World War I the hall was seized as enemy property and opened as the Wigmore Hall in 1917.
		The Wigmore Hall is famous for the very high standard of its concerts and recitals, and has a low priced series of concerts that are recorded for the BBC.
	www.touruk.co.uk /london_theatres_halls/wigmorehall_theatre1.htm (163 words)

	Wigmore Hall, London - Whats On in London
		The Wigmore Hall is one of the finest classical music venues in London and incontrovertibly the home of chamber music in the capital.
		The Wigmore Hall's lunchtime concerts are one of London's best-loved institutions and are often broadcast live on Radio 3, the BBC Radio classical music channel, 91-93 FM.
		The Wigmore Hall opened in 1917, fashioned from the German piano maker Friedrich Bechstein's headquarters which had been built in 1901, but was confiscated as enemy property during the First World War.
	www.viewlondon.co.uk /whats_on_19085.html (194 words)

	Wigmore Hall - MusEd - British Council - Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Wigmore Hall Community and Education Department provides one of the broadest education programmes amongst the capital's arts organisations and derives its inspiration from the Hall's rich artistic programme.
		Wigmore Hall Community and Education has developed a new series of workshops at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington.
		Wigmore Hall Community and Education department will be collaborating with Music for Life on a major programme aimed at training professional musicians to work interactively with elderly people with dementia.
	www.britishcouncil.org /UK/arts-music-education-mused-wigmore-hall.htm (301 words)

	Mills for Wigmore Hall? - Arts - Entertainment - theage.com.au
		Jonathan Mills is rumoured as a possible successor to Paul Kildea as artistic director of the Wigmore Hall.
		When he conducted at the hall he was accused of self-promotion and vanity.
		Wigmore Hall's reputation was firmly established by him.
	www.theage.com.au /news/Arts/Mills-for-Wigmore-Hall/2005/06/03/1117568371154.html (598 words)

	Hall, Joseph - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		HALL, JOSEPH [Hall, Joseph] 1574-1656, English prelate and author.
		He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and became bishop of Exeter, 1627-41, and of Norwich, 1641-47.
		Hall's most notable work, his verse satires, modeled after the Roman satirist Juvenal, appeared in two parts: Virgidemiarum or Toothless Satires (1597) and Biting Satires (1598).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/Hall-Jos.asp (240 words)

	PlaybillArts: News: Wigmore Hall to Launch Live-Recording Label This Fall
		London’s Wigmore Hall announced plans to launch a CD label specializing in live performances in Septeber 2005.
		The label, called Wigmore Hall Live, plans to release 16 albums in its first year of the label, and is also looking into the possibility of releasing certain archival recordings.
		John Gilhooly, Wigmore’s executive director, said in a statement, “We are delighted to be able to bring Wigmore Hall’s musical program to a much wider audience through this project.
	www.playbillarts.com /news/article/1585.html (338 words)

	Wigmore Hall , London - Reviews of Wigmore Hall - IgoUgo
		Wigmore Hall is an excellent place to see, hear and enjoy the cream of classical performances.
		Wigmore Hall, a small gem of a concert hall famous for its outstanding chamber music program and marvelous acoustics, is tucked away on a side street just off of the busy Oxford Street shopping district and easily accessible by tube (Bond Street or Oxford Street stations) or bus (Oxford Street line).
		Wigmore Hall also features a small cafe downstairs, the perfect spot for a quick bite before the concert.
	www.igougo.com /planning/journalEntryActivity.asp?type=2&entryID=16514 (619 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Sale secures Wigmore Hall future
		The future of London's world-famous Wigmore Hall has been secured after the lease on the chamber music venue was bought by the trust which runs it.
		The Wigmore Hall Trust paid £3.1m for a lease of several hundred years on the building, near London's Oxford Street.
		The hall, which opened in 1901, is known as the "Wiggy".
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/4585132.stm (330 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the Wigmore Hall's programme, she is described as "a Czech avant-garde violinist and singer who has synthesised the classic folk and gypsy music of the tiny Moravian villages where she grew up..." This may factually be true but did little to prepare a Wigmore audience for such uniqueness of personality, let alone talent.
		This is scarcely music of the concert hall; the distinction between art music and folk music narrowed to a whisker.
		Emerging in the dim light from the back of the hall clutching a violin, her strong, raucous solo voice of such true pitch caused acoustic buzzing in the ears.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /music/reviews/article330762.ece (391 words)

	soundgenerator.com \| Wigmore Hall's Community & Education Programme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wigmore Hall is widely recognised for the dynamism and breadth of its Community and Education programme.
		This work is central to the Hall's artistic mission and engages and inspires audiences of all ages by involving them in a wide variety of creative workshops, projects and study events.
		It is the first time that a Wigmore Hall project has extended around the country in this way and represents the launch of an exciting new phase of its work.
	www.soundgenerator.com /village/feature_detail.cfm?articleid=2707 (640 words)

	Fast Times at Wigmore Hall \| Annotate
		My Carnegie Hall then was the Wigmore Hall; nobody really dresses up and it’s a lot smaller but that wasn’t why I loved it so much.
		On February 28th, for example Wigmore Hall is presenting a pre-concert talk on the poems of the German writer, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, some of whose work was set to music by Robert Schumann, followed by a concert of these songs.
		In addition, the Wigmore is running a series of studies on Shostakovich’s string quartets throughout the season as part of its Shostakovich Centenary program.
	journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/annotate/node/71 (383 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		May 8 (Bloomberg) -- London's 105-year-old Wigmore Hall, one of the world's top chamber-music and recital venues, faced a cash crunch with a lease expiring in 2012 and the threat of doubled rent under a new owner.
		The hall was built in 1901 by the Bechstein piano company in a gabled building next to its Wigmore Street showrooms.
		The hall also runs a program of education and community outreach with 15,000 participants -- up from 5,000 five years ago -- and pulls in ``anybody who's interested in music from cradle to grave,'' including the under-five's, ``when you have push chairs queuing down Wigmore Street'' and the elderly.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000088&sid=a8Lh_ZwQ6Ayg&refer=culture (968 words)

	Professional development day for musicians
		A Professional Development day for 10 blind and partially sighted musicians was held at the Wigmore Hall, a world renowned venue for classical chamber music and the debut recital venue for many international artists over the last century.
		During the afternoon the participants were given the opportunity to perform snippets of their solo items on the Wigmore Hall stage, putting into practice some of the suggestions raised during the day.
		During the morning the workshop was mainly held in the Bechstein Room at the Wigmore Hall in London and the downstairs area of the corridors.
	www.rnib.org.uk /xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/public_whall.hcsp?printPage=1 (562 words)

	Wigmore Hall 2006-7 Season: Chamber Music in Luxurious Surroundings : feature
		In its next season it is wonderful to see that the Wigmore Hall is continuing its commitment to vocal music in its Festival of Song.
		It will be a tribute to the contributions he made to British music, many of which he premiered at the Wigmore Hall.
		These are only a handful of the noteworthy events which are due to take place at the Wigmore Hall during the coming 2006/7 season.
	www.musicomh.com /comment/wigmore-preview_0606.htm (833 words)

	MinJin at Wigmore Hall
		On her second appearance at the Wigmore Hall in eighteen months in the company of the pianist Gordon Back, she performed a programme made up of relentless demands in musicality and virtuosity and she met these with consummate power, ease and charm.
		Her left-hand technique is dazzling, yet her playing is driven by her bow arm, always the hall mark of a great string player.
		A packed house at the Wigmore Hall last night made it abundantly clear that it was full of gratitude for an enchanting display of old-fashioned musical values.
	www.culturekiosque.com /Klassik/concert/rheminjin.html (425 words)

	Wigmore Hall
		Moreover, the beauty of the sounds he created are especially evident in the chamber music, the solo piano works, and the songs, despite the smaller pallette from which he created these works.
		To me it is important that Tippett is clebrated at Wigmore for two reasons: many of the works were first performed at Wigmore, and it is fitting that they are reheard in this setting.
		But most importantly, as happened with Britten, those performers so closely associated with his music during his lifetime are no longer with us or are no longer performing, and it is time for new exponents to emerge from the shadows.
	www.schott-international.com /en_UK/tipp/news/show,14645.html (232 words)

	AIM25: Royal College of Music: Bechstein, piano-makers, and Bechstein/Wigmore Hall
		In 1901 the firm opened a concert room in London, known as the Bechstein Hall, next to its showrooms on Wigmore Street; the first concert on 31 May 1901 featured the virtuoso pianist Ferruccio Busoni.
		The Hall quickly came renowned for its superb acoustics and enjoyed popularity with both performers and the public.
		The Hall reopened in 1917 as the Wigmore Hall.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=5659&inst_id=25 (420 words)

	WIGMORE HALL : 1901-2001 - A CELEBRATION [CF]: Book Reviews- July 2001 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		If there is one common thread of praise from performers and audiences alike about the Wigmore Hall it is its intimacy, wonderful acoustics, and unique atmosphere.
		When it was built in 1901 Thomas Collcutt's design was called the Bechstein Hall, after the piano makers, but the anti-German feeling understandably prevalent during the First World War forced a change of name to that of the street in which the hall is located.
		For many years artists hired the hall, most of them making debut appearances to kick-start their careers, which in turn tended to give rise to reluctance on the part of established musicians who did not wish their publicity to be surrounded by that given to debutantes.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2001/July01/wigmore.htm (350 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Wigmore Hall director in shock resignation
		There has been speculation that behind the decision lies an increasing frustration with what one associate, who asked not to be named, described as a "stifling atmosphere" at the Wigmore and a resistance to change from the audience.
		His fellow Australian William Lyne, who ran the London hall for 37 years, served up consistent programmes of chamber music and song to an audience that has a reputation for musical knowledge and conservatism.
		He came under fire from Wigmore old-guard loyalists for failing to book artists who had been regulars for years; when he conducted at the hall he was accused of self-promotion and vanity.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,,1492240,00.html (567 words)

	PlaybillArts: News: Wigmore Hall Signs 300-Year Lease
		London’s Wigmore Hall will be protected from rising rents with a 300-year lease.
		John Gilhooly, director of the hall, told PlaybillArts that £575,000 to pay for the lease has already been raised through private fundraising.
		A public appeal will be launched in two years, and the hall has three years to reach the £3.1 million target.
	www.playbillarts.com /news/article/3625.html (350 words)

	Wigmore Hall, London - www.ezboard.com
		Well, The Wigmore is a beautiful place to play - it's small (I think it holds around 500) and very intimate.
		The Wigmore Hall is a wonderful venue, especially for chamber music.
		I remember the hall especially for one of the most moving moments of my musical life.
	www.cello.org /heaven/mbarchs/2001/sept10/wigmore.htm (399 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Yet here, after all, was the Hall's new artistic director, Paul Kildea, not only proclaiming his faith in the future by opening his season with a substantial commission, but conducting it himself.
		So responsive is the acoustic of the Wigmore Hall that an ensemble of this size actually needs to be restrained if it is not to overwhelm.
		As it was, Davislim had to battle almost as heroically as in a full orchestra performance against the onslaught of the opening number, while in louder passages elsewhere, Murray's tone tended to spread stridently.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /music/reviews/article28532.ece (506 words)

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