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The Brighton Dome is a building complex in Brighton, England that contains the Concert Hall, Corn Exchange and the Pavilion Theatre. All three venues are linked to the rest of the Royal Pavilion Estate by an underground tunnel to the Royal Pavilion in Pavilion Gardens and through shared corridors to Brighton Museum, as the entire complex was built for the Prince of Wales and completed in 1805. Originally the Concert Hall was the Prince of Wales' stables with the Corn Exchange being a riding school. William Porden designed the new stables and riding school for the Prince. Inspired by water colour pictures of India he created an incredible building in the Indo-Saracenic style with a vast glass dome (24 metres in diameter and 19 metres high) covering the main hall. Many pessimists predicted that this daring construction would collapse once the scaffolding was removed. The stables were converted to a Concert Hall around 1860. Since this time the Corn Exchange and Concert Hall have gone through many different guises with the latest renovation of the Concert Hall taking place in 2001/2 and costing £22m. This rebirth was ushered in with the help of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Courtney Pine, Nigel Kennedy and Fatboy Slim (amongst others).
It famously staged the Eurovision Song Contest on 6 April 1974 where ABBA won for Sweden with Waterloo. Other notables to have appeared at the Dome include Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones and more recently Dizee Rascal, Beyonce and Kasabian. The complex now plays host to a varied programme of events; with concerts from every musical style, serious plays, ballet, conferences, alternative pantomines and modern dance.
One of the Dome's most famous features is its pipe organ. The first pipe organ in the Dome's Concert Hall was built in 1870 by the famous London firm of Henry Willis & Sons to a specification of forty-four stops spread over four manuals and pedals. This instrument was removed in 1935 for the great rebuilding of the theatre and was never returned, but broken up for parts. The present instrument which replaced it in 1935 was built by the firm of Hill, Norman and Beard. This organ has four manuals and one hundred and seventy-eight stops obtained by extension and borrowing of numerous ranks, plus numerous percussion effects. It has recently been restored by David Wells of Liverpool and a "floating" String Organ added from the organ at Glyndebourne, which had been broken up.
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