Cairo has the oldest and largest film and music industries in the Arab World, as well as the world's second-oldest institution of higher learning, al-Azhar University.

One of the largest and most complete collections of 17th century harp music is the work of Turlough O ' Carolan, a blind, itinerant Irish harper and composer.

By the 1900s, Lyon & Healy was one of the largest music publishers in the world, and sold new and antique violins, pianos, and other instruments.

Dance music, often improvised around familiar tropes, was the largest purely instrumental genre.

In 1943 Prokofiev joined Eisenstein in Alma-Ata, the largest city in Kazakhstan, to compose more film music ( Ivan the Terrible ), and the ballet Cinderella ( Op.

Local performance groups include the Off Centre Theatre Company, Monmouth Operatic Society, Monmouth Choral Society, and the Merlin Society, one of the largest music societies in the country.

The Monmouth Festival, a free nine day music festival, has been running every year since 1982 and is one of the largest free music festivals in Europe.

As a music venue, it was the largest in Memphis, presenting such acts as R. E. M., Phish, Aerosmith, Janet Jackson, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, The Doobie Brothers, and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

The city also hosts another rock festival, Down by the Laituri, and one of the largest electronic music festivals in Northern Europe, UMF ( Uuden Musiikin Festivaali, " New Music Festival "), in addition to a vibrant nightlife, centred around the Market Square.

The ' Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt ', harboring one of the world's largest collections of post-war sheet music, also hosts the biennial Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, a summer school in contemporary classical music founded by Wolfgang Steinecke.

France is the world's second-largest hip-hop market and the fifth largest global music market, with 7 percent of the world's music sales, but with an unusually high quantity of local product ( Negus: 159-60 ), although the domestic share of the French music market dropped from 48 percent to 44 percent in 1998 ( Boehm 1999 ).

It houses the Bibliothèque publique d ' information, a vast public library, the Musée National d ' Art Moderne which is the largest museum for modern art in Europe, and IRCAM, a centre for music and acoustic research.

The UK's largest high street music retailer, HMV, decided to stock the paper on release day due to the giveaway.

The more recent Glastonbury Festival of Performing Arts, founded in 1970, is now the largest open-air music and performing arts festival in the world.

It is the largest producer and distributor of classical music programming in the country.

The Patronaat is a pop music hall, one of the largest in the Netherlands of its kind.

* In October 2010, former Plainfield music teacher Anwar Robinson and performer Yolanda Adams joined with community residents to try to be recognized by Guinness World Records for assembling the world's largest gospel chorus.

The university houses one of the largest blues music archives in the United States.

Shepton Mallet is the closest town to the site of the Glastonbury Festival, the largest music festival in Europe.

The Glastonbury Festival, the largest music festival in Europe, is held in the village of Pilton, approximately south-west of Shepton Mallet.

It has become one of the largest independent collegiate music festivals in the country, boasting previous performances by national recording artists such as Mike Posner, Machine Gun Kelly, Timeflies, Chip Tha Ripper, 12th Planet and more.

It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light towers at any sporting venue.

A typical kitchen timer is quite adequate for all but the largest professional tournaments, which may use computer software tied to video displays throughout the venue.

The Circus was Rome's largest venue for ludi, public games connected to Roman religious festivals.

Gaelic Park in New York City is the largest purpose-built Gaelic sports venue outside of Ireland.

The railway station encouraged the government to site its buildings-the town hall, library, police station, court and post office in the area surrounding Clapham Junction ; the Arding and Hobbs department store, diagonally opposite the station, was the largest of its type at the time of its construction in 1885 ; and the area was served by a vast music hall-The Grand-opposite the station and nowadays serving as a nightclub and venue for smaller bands.

However, the lack of a large venue was holding back the further development of the Festival until one of the largest mid-nineteenth century maltings in East Anglia, at Snape, a village just outside Aldeburgh, became available.

While Dodger Stadium was under construction, the Dodgers played in the league's largest capacity venue from 1958 through 1961 at their temporary home, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which could seat in excess of 90, 000 people.

The largest venue is the Armstrong Hall near the town centre capable of seating 350 and adjacent to this is the Cossham Hall with a seating for 140.

Opened in 1993, the Expo Center had hosted some of the region's biggest consumer and trade shows, and at, was the largest such suburban venue in the northeastern United States.

Penrhyn Road is host to the space bar, KUSU's largest venue and the penrhyn road shop.

CASC is also the venue each year for the UK's National Inter Clubs Slalom Finals, the largest canoe slalom event by participation in the UK.

It opened in 1907, and was the world's first purpose-built motorsport venue, as well as one of Britain's first airfields, which also became Britain's largest aircraft manufacturing centre by 1918.

A large entertainment venue seating nearly 3500 people, it is Michigan's fourth largest auditorium.

Mexico has the largest venue for bullfighting in the world-The Plaza de toros in Mexico City which seats 48, 000 people.

Shropshire Climbing Centre offers a state of the art bouldering and roped climbing facility, in Newport, with over 350 sq m of bouldering, it is are the largest bouldering venue in the West Midlands.

It is the largest museum in the Southern Hemisphere, and is a venue of Museum Victoria, which also operates the Immigration Museum and Scienceworks Museum.

Within Malaysia, the largest performing arts venue is the Petronas Philharmonic Hall.

Large music venues in Hawaii include the University of Hawaii at Hilo Performing Arts Center, which has 600 seats and is the largest venue on the Big Island.

It also serves as a venue for Hot Docs, which is North America's largest documentary film festival.

İstiklal Avenue is also a popular venue for all sorts of protests, marches, parades and gatherings in the city ; such as the annual Istanbul Pride which attracted over 10, 000 participants in 2011 and is the largest of its kind in eastern Europe.

The Events Center is the area's largest venue for athletics, concerts, fairs and more.

The largest grass valley, Valle Grande, is a venue for ski orienteering.