Tom Service on the Royal Albert Hall

'My love affair with classical music's moshpit'Acoustics are a rich and strange thing. Very knowledgeable acousticians can tell you all about reverberation times, frequency ranges and the sonic absorption rates of multi-planed surfaces (I may have made that last one up). But for all the science, the way a hall sounds eventually boils down to something much simpler: does it work or doesn't it?In Britain, there are famously few places that qualify as having great acoustics for an orchestra. The Us...

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