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Birmingham City Council is the local authority for the city of Birmingham in the West Midlands, England. Birmingham has had an elected local authority since 1838, which has been reformed several times. Since 1974 the council has been a metropolitan borough council. It provides the majority of local government services in the city.
In 2011 Birmingham had 78,259 full-time students from all over the world aged 18–74 resident in the city during term time, more than any other city in the United Kingdom outside London. [335] Birmingham has 32,690 research students , also the highest number of any major city outside London.
Performance by BEAST at the CBSO Centre in 2009. Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre, or as it is more commonly known, BEAST, is a sound diffusion system specifically designed for the performance of electroacoustic music. It consists of a set of loudspeakers connected to a computer, usually controlled by a diffusion console.
Renton Howard Wood Levin. Website. www .thsh .co .uk. Symphony Hall is a 2,262 seat concert venue in Birmingham, England. It was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 12 June 1991, [1] although it had been in use since 15 April 1991. It is home to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and hosts around 270 events a year.
Birmingham 's culture of popular music first developed in the mid-1950s. [1] By the early 1960s the city's music scene had emerged as one of the largest and most vibrant in the country; a "seething cauldron of musical activity", [2] with over 500 bands constantly exchanging members and performing regularly across a well-developed network of ...
The UK government has moved to take control of the country’s second biggest city, Birmingham, after the local council effectively declared itself bankrupt earlier this month.
Early years. Daniel McLean McDonald (1905–1991) founded Birmingham Sound Reproducers as a private company in 1932 in the West Midlands of England. By 1947, the company chiefly manufactured communications sets ( intercoms ), laboratory test equipment, and sound recording and reproducing instruments including phonographs .
The residents and businesses in Birmingham deserve better, said the housing secretary Michael Gove ‘Bankrupt’ Birmingham City Council may be forced to sell off airport and library Skip to main ...