Students De Wadden

The Concert Hall

On a Monday in December 2000 we went to the concert hall to make many photos and to video tape it and to have an interview with an employee.

In the concert hall is a huge coffee hall and also a meeting hall which looks similar to the coffee hall.
There are many dressing rooms and each dressing room has restrooms and showers and mirrors. In some of the dressing rooms are also beds.

Our concert hall has a big hall, a middle hall and a smaller hall.
In the big hall are 1280 chairs. In our smallest hall 200 people can be seated. The middle hall has room for 300 people. It has only a small balcony.

It is forbidden to smoke in the concert hall, but the funny thing is that they do sell cigarettes!
It is not allowed to take food or sodas with you into the hall. Artists are always nervous and if you drop something on the floor that makes noise, then the artists will start to become agitated. 
In about 2-3 years from now, they(WHO?) will break down the concert hall to rebuild it to an even larger concert hall. The stage will become much bigger than it is now and the big orfan will be restored.

The big boss of our concert hall is Mr. Niels Walles.

In former days, our concert hall was a meeting building of the socialism union. People came to the building to play at skittles or billiards.

We want to thank the people of the Concert Hall for their cooperation and for the tour they gave us to be able to make the photos and videotape.

Highlights of Interview with employee of the Concert hall:

Question: Who performs here and how many times do they do that?
Answer: We will start with the North Holland Philharmonic Orchestra and the Stage Choir. It will be a concert for Christmas.

Question: What do you think of this Concert Hall, I mean, what about the appearance?
Answer: Well, we will restore the building, we will repaint it.

Question: Do famous people come to Haarlem to perfom here on stage?
Answer: Yes, for instance foreign pianists.. in fact, we had many famous foreign artists here on stage.

Written by Karin and Suzanne and Kelly

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