Besides the auditoriums, Carnegie Hall contains offices on its top stories.Ĭarnegie Hall, originally the Music Hall, was constructed between 18 as a venue shared by the Oratorio Society of New York and the New York Symphony Society. Also part of the complex are the 599-seat Zankel Hall on Seventh Avenue, as well as the 268-seat Joan and Sanford I. The largest one is the Stern Auditorium, a five-story auditorium with 2,804 seats. It is also rented out to performing groups.Ĭarnegie Hall has 3,671 seats, divided among three auditoriums. Carnegie Hall has its own artistic programming, development, and marketing departments and presents about 250 performances each season. Designed by architect William Burnet Tuthill and built by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, it is one of the most prestigious venues in the world for both classical music and popular music. It is at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th and 57th Streets. The book is set in Cambridge, the first of Hall's works to be based in the city. It focuses on four people who have lost hope in life, and set about trying to find it again. Hall's latest novel, The Editor, was published in September 2019, by Bloodhound Books. He cites "very personal" reasons as his motivation. It is a charitable production, in aid of Hospiscare, a Devon-based organisation that Hall has undertaken many events to support. Called An Unnecessary Murder, it ran at the Barnfield Theatre in Exeter. Hall has been longlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library award, for writers most popular with library users.Ī play, based on the TV Detective books, has been written by Hall. The Judgment Book is a story of the dangers of seeking revenge. The story surrounds a terrorist atrocity in a sacred building in Exeter. The Balance of Guilt was published in September 2010. It tells how Groves and Adam Breen, the chief inspector in the series first met and is partly based on A Popular Murder. The TV Detective was published in February 2010. The Judgement Book was published in September 2009. The story is about preventing a psychopath from committing a crime. It was published in the United States in October 2008.Įvil Valley came out in September 2008. The plot concerns the murder of a dying artist. The first novel, A Popular Murder, was published by a print-on-demand company in 2006.Ī mainstream publisher, Accent Press, published Hall's next book, The Death Pictures, in February 2008. Hall has written several novels about a Plymouth-based television crime reporter, Dan Groves, nicknamed "The TV Detective", who often helps police to solve cases that he is reporting on. He worked around England before settling in the South West. Hall later did a diploma in broadcast journalism at University College, Cardiff. He went to Littlehampton Community School and then the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he joined the college radio station, UKC Radio. (His parents later moved to Lincoln, and then Littlehampton in West Sussex.) Hall was born in the village of Oakley, in Bedfordshire. Hall has covered many high-profile stories, including the attempt to detonate a bomb in the Giraffe restaurant in Exeter, the grounding of the container ship MSC Napoli in east Devon, and the flooding of the Cornish village of Boscastle. Hall worked for BBC South West Television's regional news programme, Spotlight, and also broadcast on BBC Radio Devon and BBC Radio Cornwall. Previously, he was a BBC News Correspondent for 20 years, specialising in home affairs, business and economics, and the environment. He's a Senior Research Associate at Jesus College, Cambridge, in the Intellectual Forum. Hall runs Creative Warehouse ( ), a Cambridge based business communication consultancy, and teaches communication skills at the University of Cambridge, as well as for companies and organisations. He's also an author, with eight novels, and a series of books and audio learning talks on business skills and communication published ( ). Simon Hall (born 3 February 1969 in Bedford) is a course leader in Compelling Communication Skills at the University of Cambridge ( ).
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