Though this photo goes
with the entry
about my visit to the Royal Albert Hall on October 27th, it was
actually taken before the concert on September 15th (on October 27th it
was dark by the time I got to the hall). The statue on the left is part
of the surround for the Albert Memorial. The
hall is a huge venue: it had notoriously bad acoustics until special
treatment was installed in 1969, principally consisting of huge
'mushrooms' suspended from the dome. There is a Wikipedia
article giving a detailed history.
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