The Bridgewater Hall
Spring-mounted concert hall of glass and steel, home stage of a historic symphony orchestra.
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This guide to the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester follows the conductor Mark Elder and the Hallé, the orchestra that calls this hall home. It reaches back to the late nineteen-nineties, when the orchestra had just moved in from the old Free Trade Hall and its finances were in deep trouble, and to the man the board blamed, Kent Nagano. Best heard in the foyer or your seat, before the orchestra tunes up.
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