The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Modernist concert venue seating nearly 2,500, home to a national orchestra and a winter folk festival.
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This guide to the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall begins far from this corner of Sauchiehall Street, at St Andrew's Halls beside the Mitchell Library, on an October night in nineteen sixty-two given over to an amateur boxing international. It follows the Scottish National Orchestra through the years after, from a converted variety theatre on Argyle Street to a royal gala in Glasgow's year as European City of Culture. Best heard from the steps at the top of Buchanan Street.
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