CONCERT-GEBOUW Amsterdam

October 5, 2005 at 10:42 AM

This scan I made of a T-shirt I bought during a pause of a concert in the
CONCERT-GEBOUW (as it is written on the building), but mostly called the (het in Dutch) Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. http://www.concertgebouw.nl/ce_main.htm

It is the best visited concerthall in the world with nearly a million visitors in a year 850.000, mostly for classical music, and there are less seats since the last rebuilding, because they change the seats and gave more room for the legs for long people. Now there are 1974 seats in the Main Hall, as they called it on the website, normally called the big hall.
In the Recital Hall, mainly for chambermusic, normally called the little hall there are 438 seats, 376 below + 62 on the balcony. I played twice as amateur in the Main Hall, once in 1991 with a studentorchestra with a traditional gala-ball in full dress after the concert the whole night till 6 in the morning and than breakfast somewhere and last year in 2004, and will play here for the third time in my life here next year, apart from the many churches and other smaller halls, where I usually play.