If you could play anywhere in the world where would you play?

Would it be somewhere famous? Or would you rather play somewhere that only you know about?
It would be interesting to hear why you want to play there!!Pleeeeeeaaassee comment 'Cause your cool.

well seeing nas I get to play at RAH in October I will say Carniege hall. I want to see if it is as good as everyone says.

Royal Albert Hall, St. Pauls Cathedral, Anfield.

Why wouldn't it be?

I would quite like to play in the Wieliczka Salt Mine chapel in Krakow. Acoustics there seem quite haunting.

Not to an audience though, merely for my own satisfaction

(Not that I've any idea of your footballing skills!)

If I could play anywhere in the world....my choice would be to play in my front room with the garden doors and all the windows opened in my house in the middle of nowhere on my grand Steinway piano!

But first I need to win the lottery to buy that house and that piano!!!

Does singing count, or are you only interested in people playing instruments?

For some reason I'm much happier singing in public (even thought I've never learnt properly) than I am playing. I don't have a desire to play any of my instruments in any particular places (not even flute which is my 'main' instrument). I play my flute at church, but don't play anywhere else except for practice/lessons and the occasional forum event. I play in a local orchestra but I never play in concerts.

However, I've sung in several cathedrals/concert halls, and would love to sing in Liverpool Cathedral (Anglican) and St Paul's.

I'm going to be singing in a local church in a few week's time - that'll do for me for now. Next step, Inverness Cathedral and then who knows... But I'm not holding out much hope!

well, i mostly play at the pub, and i'm really not sure i can think of a nicer place to play; you have people you know, something to drink, and a nice atmosphere.

Me too.
Bev

Yes singing does count!!

I played there once in the music for youth competition. All i can say is it was certainly worth the long coach ride to get to play there for 30 minutes.

In the Royal Albert Hall, mostly because I'd like to be that good.
Also I'd like my house to be in the middle of nowhere so that I could play whenever I liked instead of waiting for the neighbors to go out.

From Semi-Detatched Clarimoo.

You don't necessarily have to be that good to do things in the RAH - it's as much a case of grabbing oppotunities which come up. I've sung there twice with choirs (both were public concerts), and I'm not 'good' by any stretch of the imagination.

Emsoboe played there with an Orchestra a couple of weeks ago. It's grabbing those opportunities as Flossie says.

Yeah, I 'third' the "grabbing opportunites" thing. I'm playing there in November for the MFY School Proms. Much excitement

Royal Albert Hall. As the oboist in a really good professional orchestra lol Probably never happen.

Keep that thought alive Lizbun. It's "visualisation" not "dreaming". I'm looking forward to the opportunity to play oboe anywhere in an amateur orchestra once I'm good enough.

PS, I have sung in the Bridgwater Hall, Manchester. A superb hall. I also attended a concert at Symphony Hall, Birmingham for the first time a couple of weeks ago and was very impressed by the acoustics in there (oh and the CBSO).

The most amazing place I have ever sung in for accoustics was St Michael's cave in Gibraltar!

I've played at symphony hall and town hall in birmingham a few times- and it is worth it- the acoustics are amazing! (I live in b'ham) I'd like to play at RAH.
I 4th the 'grabbing opportunities' thing- a lot of things that I have done were things that I found really hard, but they were worth it for the experience.

Id like to play in a symphony orchestra
And id like to sing in the royal albert hall (or the apollo victoria )

I'd like to play in the Royal Albert Hall.
I've sung in Ely Cathedral before, and I'm hoping I will again in November, but with an enormous orchestra and adult 4-part choir (assuming my audition was succesful...) - it's for Mahler's 8th Symphony as part of the University of Cambridge's 800th year celebrations. Our school has been asked to provide the children's choir. *waits impatiently and hopefully to go back to school and find out*

I'm playing at my local pub next Sunday afternoon and very much looking forward to it

Yay, that's what I sang in at Bridgewater Hall. A fabulous experience.

I was lucky enough to play in there the year it opened. It was a fantastic experience and a real eye opener after playing in the Town Hall.

Hearing the CBSO playing Mahler 2 in there on the repeat of the official opening concert will remain one of my most cherished musical memories for ever more.

Carnegie hall because I'd like to travel more than I can just now... and of course I'd love to be just that good!

But I would really like to be just good enough to play anywhere


One of the best places I have played when I was a clarinettist was the brick lined Battery room at the exchange tower at Granite Hill in a certain city in Scotland. My father worked there as an engineer and the Battery Room had the most astonishing acoustics I've ever heard - it sounded fabulous!

I've sung there - amazing place. We took the Youth Choir to Poland one year and one of the trips was to the salt mines. We sang several times there, one of which was in the chapel.

Think you'd be lucky not to have an audience though - there are plenty of tourists who'll stop and listen if someone is performing.

I'd like to perform in the Royal Albert Hall too.

I've played in several excellent London venues, but the Albert Hall would be something special...

Ever since I first went there I have always wanted to play at in the caves of the Rock of Gibraltar.

http://www.gibraltar-rock-tours.com/cave.htm

The acoustics are something else!

Helen Grimauds bedroom