The hall's current artistic director is Anneke Hogenstijn.

The first documentary reference to a London Guildhall is dated 1128 and the current hall's west crypt may be part of a late-13th century building.

The great hall influenced the design of Bolton and Raby castles, while the hall's roof design became famous and was copied at Arundel Castle and Westminster Hall.

Heusden was literally decimated, as one tenth of the town's population died that night in the town hall's cellar.

Despite the fact that many of the dates and figures of Oxford's medieval and early life are imprecise, Blackfriars ' history is unusually well documented, largely as a result of the hall being part of an international fraternity of scholarship, which was able to monitor and document its fortunes, even during times of the hall's collapse.

That claim is repeated in the hall's official guidebook, which goes on to suggest that it was created in the hope that Queen Elizabeth I would visit the hall on her royal progress, but she never did so.

The facade of the town hall was redesigned 150 years ago and the highly elaborate entrance door, made of wood and copper, is the town hall's most outstanding feature.

The hall's operating budget for the 2008 – 2009 season was $ 84 million.

The hall's employee who oversees props was paid $ 530, 000 in salary and benefits during the fiscal year that ended in June 2008.

The hall's Irish Catholic base enabled the magazine to rationalize more completely its conviction that the Catholic Church, ruled by a foreign potentate dressed in the irrational garb of infallibility, was a menace not only to the nation's body politic but also to its democratic soul.

A grant of £ 300, 000 was made by English Heritage in 2006 to restore the hall's facade.

It replaced the hall's first organ, built in 1900 by George S. Hutchings of Boston, which was electrically keyed, with 62 ranks of nearly 4, 000 pipes set in a chamber 12 feet deep and 40 feet high.

Symphony Hall's acoustic, widely considered one of the finest in the world, was designed by Percy Thomas Partnership and Renton Howard Wood Levin, ( who together formed the Convention Centre Partnership for the ICC ) with specialist help from Russell Johnson of Artec Consultants Inc .. A particularly innovative feature is the hall's acoustic flexibility.

In 2001, a 6000-pipe symphony organ was installed, designed and built by Johannes Klais Orgelbau in Bonn and specially tailored to the hall's reverberation chambers.

He was the first to build and own cinema hall's in Madras.

In the sessions, 33 microphones placed around the orchestra captured the music which was transferred onto eight optical recording machines located in the hall's basement.

The hall is reputedly haunted by a Green Lady ; believed to be the daughter of a former owner who drowned herself in the hall's lake when her Roundhead lover was killed.

These two ensembles raised the standards of orchestral playing in London to new heights, and the hall's resident orchestra, founded in 1893, was eclipsed and it disbanded in 1930.

The third was to provide the hall with a keg of beer of the hall's choice.

The Brandlings appointed John Blenkinsop to manage their collieries in Middleton and he was the hall's occupant in 1809.

While initial reaction to the improvements was favorable, overall feelings about the new hall's sound soured, and the acoustics of Avery Fisher Hall continued to be problematic.

As the floor of the exchange was unable to take the weight of the theatre and its audience, the module is suspended from the four columns carrying the hall's central dome.

The hall's acoustical sound was exactly what I wanted to recapture: the same kind of ambience that lent such character to Bill Russell ’ s 1940 ’ s American Music recordings from San Jacinto Hall.

On 9 February 2010, she was presented with The Wigmore Hall Medal by HRH The Duke of Kent KG, at the launch of the hall's 110th anniversary programme.

The hall's debut concert was on June 14, 1894.

The hall's interior decor was also inspired by acoustic design: hardwood floors to absorb sounds, and textured walls made from plastered gypsum to reflect sound ( De Santis, 2008 ).

The city hall's coat of arms, by decree, was granted to promote “ My Loyal City of Horta ” by King Luis I on May 3, 1865.

As she hung up, she saw through the hall's open window the purple-black flying of the cowbirds' wings, and heard their grotesque singing.

The hall's electric chandeliers, or " electroliers ", were designed in 1885.

Before the hall stands the golden tree Glasir, and the hall's ceiling is thatched with golden shields.

returned to the main hall's podium, where they gave speeches and shook hands.

In the recording sessions, thirty-three microphones were placed around the orchestra that captured the music onto eight optical sound recording machines placed in the hall's basement.

There were immediate allegations that he had engineered his election through manipulation of the hall's board of directors.

In addition the dining hall's hours were extended to include the 9pm-12am period, a time referred to as " Late Night " by students.

On Saturday 4 November, under heavy artillery fire, two Scottish Highlander regiments advance, and 170 civilians seek shelter in the town hall's cellars.

Witnesses have stated that on 4 November German soldiers carried explosives into the town hall's tower, and also into two churches, a windmill, and dairy factory in Heusden.

In 2007, the village transferred its offices and the police department from its location at North Main Street, primarily to address the old village hall's limited space and failure to meet mandated handicapped-accessibility requirements.

Its name is believed to derive from the name of a bronze knocker that adorned the hall's door.

However, Exeter College retained certain rights over Hart Hall, with which it plagued the hall's development for centuries.

Acoustic enhancement systems help give a more even sound in the hall and prevent " dead spots " in the audience seating area by "... augment a hall's intrinsic acoustic characteristics.

The Stocks lived in the hall's central section, comprising " a large hall, lounge dining room, a chapel, six rooms on a floor, with brewhouse, large courts, stable, etc ", while the two wings were leased tenants from about 1700.

The tradition of Promming remains an important aspect of the festival, with over 1000 standing places available for each concert, either in the central arena ( rather like the groundlings in the pit at Shakespeare's Globe ) or high in the hall's gallery.

Nantwich Show, including the International Cheese Awards, takes place in the hall's grounds each summer.

The hall's annual events include a fall retreat, an ice-broomball game, a citywide scavenger hunt, and an all-hall banquet.