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G “To promenade and listen .to J music is no new thing, but to »| promenade add listen to great i: music is. When Robert Newman j | (who was born 100 years ago) _i thought of the idea of giving concerts at the newly > I opened Queen's-Hall his sole amJlbttion was to introduce the best 11 music to those previously starved of it, starved because most people could not afford it. In Newman’s I mind was the simple fact that it ■ takes less space for* people to ) I stand up than sit down, thus i making it possible to get more . people in and ' charge cheaper fares for the musical fide.’—W. 1 W. Thompson, who was Robert i Newman’s personal assistant for ) 10 years, speaking in the 8.8. C. t Home Service about the founder , of the Henry Wood Promenade ■ Concerts, now run by the 8.8. C.