On this occasion, the hall had help it probably didn't need from the British video artist Netia Jones.
The presence of the parents leads to a quiet occasion at city hall being turned into a grand banquet, provided by the general's former army chauffeur, now a successful restaurant owner.
Miller has done that on occasion, but the hall's administration has also made useful alliances with spaces elsewhere in town, including several churches and, lately, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which has a lovely, resonant hall that is used regularly as a recording space but too rarely for concerts.
Pushpinder Saini QC, for Ramsay, told the court: "We see at least two occasions where Mr Hall and Mr Hutcheson have colluded to reveal private information about Mr Ramsay and his family".
When it was built there was a possibility of having a visitors centre here but I think now we need to look to Westminster Hall as the appropriate site You can remember the big occasions when Westminster Hall was used and I think it just shows the enormous potential.
Since August, Abrams and her colleagues have reached out to discuss Obamacare on 40 occasions, from town hall meetings to teleconferences.
The bride's father, who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated at Smith Hall on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana.
Your correspondent vividly recalls the exhilaration of that occasion in the Great Hall of the People, when the newly appointed party chief, Zhao Ziyang, raised glasses with foreign journalists and fielded impromptu questions in an unprecedented display of openness.
So the presence of the retired champion for the 2000 induction ceremony is a special occasion for the cycling hall, which gets about 2,000 visitors a year, mostly during the annual Tour of Somerville, to be held next Saturday.
What began as a joyous occasion at a banquet hall on Saturday night turned violent after one of the guests reported that two men had accosted him while he stood outside, talking on his cellphone, the manager of the hall said in a telephone interview.
