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#1 ·
I like to get photos of concert halls and places I visit and sometimes will try and get a picture during final bows. obviously I don't take pictures during the performance but I like to get shots of the hall and the instruments as a keepsake.
So this thread is for pictures you've taken yourself, not ones you find on the internet.
here's a starter..
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This is Bradford Cathedral where I was last night. Bradford's chamber music series concerts are held here.
 
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#38 ·
I presume these pictures were done in secret too. I'm not allowed to do it either.

HOWEVER, I can take pictures of rehearsals...

break time, everyone left the stage. I'm kinda afraid of taking pictures of the conductor in case he would find out. He's kinda scary, and I don't wanna get on his bad side.
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#40 · (Edited)
Silly me - I didn't realise you weren't allowed to take pictures of concerts.
That's because we mainly go to Norwich Baroque concerts & they usually have someone who takes photos in the rehearsals and concerts & then they post them on the Facebook page. But of course they aren't that huge & the photos may not be of much interest to those who live outside East Anglia...

Still, all the same, I'll post this - September 2015, when Rachel Podger came to play with Norwich Baroque at Norwich Cathedral. At one point she went into the pulpit to perform a Bach solo & it was as if an :angel: was playing to us.



The dark-haired bearded man in black playing on Rachel Podger's left and our right as we look at it is my dynamic fiddle teacher, Jim O'Toole. :)
 
#41 ·
I usually take photo after the concert, with me doing selfie and just to photograph the concert hall interior. There are some photo I taken secretly, but the quality too low. Usually the lighting are low, it mean the camera will adjust with slower shutter speed, the musicians are moving so it will certainly resulting a blur photo.

In Singapore, three main places to go concert is well documented by Google :

Esplanade concert hall :


Victoria Theater concert hall :


Yong Siew Toh concert hall:


and in Jakarta, Aula Simfonia Jakarta :
 
#43 ·
Still on the topic, to think about it, there must be something need to change. Our culture today included "selfie", there is a proudness to post a picture of ourself in concert hall into social media. It is in some way promote the venue as well, and in the end promote classical music. With hi tech camera in smartphone, it is also hard to prevent people taking snap shoot, even upload a clip to internet. If only there is a smart win win solution where people can show off (and more importantly taking a photo for memoir sake) in concert hall and at the same time do no harm to the event and artist. I think most of current artist will not mind to have their self taken a picture by fans and being promoted in media social.
 
#47 ·
Last month, on a road trip through the midwest US, I got to see a concert by my "near-hometown" Cleveland Orchestra in Severance Hall for the first time in over forty years. Franz Welser-Möst conducted two Haydn symphonies and the Ligeti piano concerto, with Pierre Laurent-Aimard as the soloist.
 

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Dávid Csuti Double Bass Diploma Concert
Old Academy of Music (Budapest)

J. S. Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007 - 5. MinuetI; 6. MinuetII
Schubert: Sonata ('Arpeggione') in A minor, D. 821
Mozart: Per questa bella mano, K. 612
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte (my favorite)
Bottesini: Concert No. 2 in B minor (on the picture)
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Final Concert of Kati Debretzeni's Early Music Master Class
Old Academy of Music (Budapest)

Corelli: Concerto grosso in D major, Op. 6/4
Purcell: The Fairy Queen - Suite, Z. 629
J. S. Bach: Concert for Violin No.1 in A minor, BWV 1041
Telemann: Burlesque de Quichotte, TWV 55:G10
Farina: Capriccio Stravagante
J. S. Bach: Orchestral Suite No.3 in D major, BWV 1068

Budapest Bach Consort & students of the Liszt Academy Concert master, artistic director: Kati Debretzeni
 
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Mendelssohn - Lobgesang (yesterday's concert)
Anna Herczenik (soprano)
Gabriella Ács (soprano)
János Szerekován (tenor)
Cardinal Mindszenty Choir (Miskolc)
Cantus Agriensis Chamber Choir (Eger)
Miskolc Symphony Orchestra
House of Arts (Miskolc)

the first piece was Mozart's Violin Concerto No.5 in A major, the conductor wasn't present.
they had to import a 2nd choir from Eger for Lobgesang.
 
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