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Carnegie Hall

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Carnegie Hall, also known as Carnegie Hall, is located at No.881Seventh Avenue between 56th Avenue and 57th Avenue in new york, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue. Funded by philanthropist andrew carnegie, it was built in 1890, which is a landmark building of American classical music and pop music. Carnegie Hall is famous for its long history, beautiful appearance and excellent sound effects. Have their own art planning, development and marketing departments, and perform more than 100 performances every quarter; In addition, it is also rented to performing groups. At present, there is no resident orchestra, and the new york Philharmonic was stationed here before 1962.

I. Auditorium

Carnegie Hall consists of three halls with completely different structures, and the internal structure is quite special. These three halls are: main hall, solo hall and chamber music hall.

1, main hall

Isaac stern Auditorium * * * has five floors with 2804 seats, and 1997 is named after the violinist isaac stern.

The main hall is characterized by warm and real sound effects. Isaac stern once said, "Some people say that this concert hall itself is a musical instrument." "It can feel your every move and sublimate it." The ceiling of the main hall is extremely high, and the audience has to go through 105 steps to reach the top audience. Of course, you can also take the elevator. Since the establishment of the main hall, almost all the greatest classical musicians have performed here, and the lounge of the main hall is decorated with signed portraits and commemorative paintings.

2. Small auditorium

The 559-seat Zankel Hall was named after philanthropists Judy Zankel and Arthur Zankel, and was originally called Solo Hall. 189 1 opened to the public for the first time in April. 1896 was rebuilt and renamed Carnegie Hall. 1898 was rented to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, about 1959 was converted into a cinema, and 1997 was converted into an auditorium. The rebuilt new hall was opened in September 2003.

The Weill Concert Hall has 268 seats and is named after Sanford Weill, director of Carnegie Hall, and his wife Joan. As the hall was completed in 189 1, it was originally named "Chamber Music Hall" (later renamed Carnegie Chamber Music Hall); In the late 1940s, it was renamed Carnegie Solo Hall, and 1986 was finally named Will Solo Hall.

3. Other facilities

Carnegie Hall Archives, built at 1986.

The Rose Museum was put into use on 199 1.

Second, architecture.

Carnegie Hall was designed by amateur cellist William Burnet Tahar of new york Religious Drama Association. It is designed according to the Italian Renaissance style and is made of brick and brown sandstone.

Carnegie Hall is one of the few large-scale buildings in new york with full masonry structure, and there is no metal frame at all. At the beginning of the 20th century, because some stairs were added to the performance hall, some metal components were added. The exterior is all made up of "Romanesque" narrow bricks, forming a dark brown tone, and the details are sculptures of clay and brown sandstone. The hall avoided the baroque decoration style popular at that time, and adopted the works of Filippo Brunelleschi, a famous architect and sculptor of Florence Renaissance. The aristocratic style of Pazhi Chapel: The dome is a harmonious color composed of white gypsum and gray stone, and the pilaster with Corinthian stigma around it supports the continuous cornice. Above the cornice and below the dome, there are a series of semi-circular windows, which form the famous golden and white indoor colors.

Third, history.

Carnegie Hall is named after andrew carnegie, who invested in the construction of this hall as the hall of the new york Religious Drama Association under his board of directors. The project was contracted by Isaac A. Hopper and his company, and ground was broken on 1890. 189 1 was put into use, and the official opening concert was held on May 5 of the same year, with the famous conductor Walter Damrosch and composer Peter ilych Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky as conductors. At first, the name of the concert hall was simply "Concert Hall" (the words "Concert Hall was built in andrew carnegie" were written above the canopy on the front of the building). Later, after being persuaded by the board members of new york Concert Hall Company (the original management organization of the hall), Carnegie agreed to name it after him, and the hall was officially renamed Carnegie Concert Hall on 1893. During the period of 1893- 1896, the museum was rebuilt several times, adding two artists' studio towers and transforming the auditorium on the ground floor of the building.

The ownership of the hall belonged to the Carnegie family before 1925. After Carnegie died, his widow sold it to real estate developer Robert Simon. 1935 Simon died and his son took over the hall. In the mid-1940s, changes in the music industry prompted Simon to sell the hall to New York Philharmonic. New York Philharmonic occupied most of the annual performances in the hall at that time, but the deal failed because the orchestra was preparing to move to Lincoln Center. At that time, everyone thought that new york could not afford two big music venues at the same time. Faced with the danger of losing the biggest customer in the hall, Simon had to plan to sell it. However, with the breakdown of negotiations with an advertising developer, New York Philharmonic moved to Lincoln Center, and the hall faced the fate of being demolished to make way for commercial skyscrapers. Later, under the pressure of the group led by violinist isaac stern, the government passed a special bill, allowing new york City to buy a concert hall from Simon for $5 million, and set up a non-profit Carnegie Concert Hall Association on 1960 to manage the operation of the concert hall. 1964, Carnegie Hall was designated as a national historical landmark.

From 1983 to 1995, the hall was extensively renovated. The renovation project was undertaken by James Polschek, whose masterpiece is the postmodern planetarium designed for the American Museum of Natural History. In the meantime, there is controversy. 1986 after the renovation of the main hall was completed, there were criticisms that the famous sound stage effect of the hall was affected. But the official refused to rebuild, and the criticism lasted for nine years. It was not until 1995 that the culprit was the thick concrete slab under the stage. Then, the circuit board is removed. During the period of 1987- 1989, a 60-story office building was erected beside the hall, named Carnegie Building. The tower is connected with Carnegie Hall and has the functions of backstage and banquet hall. In June 2003, New York Philharmonic planned to return to Carnegie Hall and merge with it in early 2006. Planned abortion was announced at the end of 2003.

Fourth, management.

The current executive and artistic director of the office is Clive Gillinson, who took office in July 2005. He is also the conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.

Verb (abbreviation for verb) file

1986, unexpected things happened to the fans. It turns out that Carnegie Hall has never kept files systematically. Many important historical documents in the hall were lost because there was no place to keep them. 199 1 year, Carnegie Hall Archives was established to celebrate its100th anniversary. Advertisers and journalists reported in the media how to search for historical records in Carnegie Hall. As a result, the report had a great response among people who kept the Hall Plan: historical relics came from all over the world. A large number of materials, including 12000 subprogram, were collected, which made the archives record a relatively complete history.

Beautiful Vienna golden hall

A concert in the literature hall. Since 1939, the Vienna New Year Concert has been held here every year, with the time of 65438+ 10/0/.Due to the interruption of the war, 1 959 resumed.

The Golden Hall is the oldest and most modern concert hall in Vienna. It is a legal place to hold Vienna New Year Concert every year.

The Golden Hall was built in 1867 and completed in 1869. This is an Italian Renaissance building. The exterior walls are yellow and red, and there are many statues of music goddesses standing on the roof, which are simple and chic. The Vienna Symphony Orchestra holds at least 12 concerts here every quarter. 1870 65438+1On October 6th, the Golden Auditorium of the Concert Hall held its first performance. 1872 to 1875, the famous musician Brahms was responsible for organizing music.

Vienna New Year Concert is famous all over the world. More than 30 countries and regions watched the live broadcast of 1993 New Year Concert through TV satellite, with more than 10 audience. There is a collection hall in the hall, which is divided into two rooms. One is an exhibition, which regularly holds exhibitions of collectibles for people to visit. One is the archives room, and the shelves on one side are filled with a large number of handwritten, woodcut and printed music books and scores; On the other side is a row of iron boxes, which contain music manuscripts, letters and other musicians' handwriting, including Mozart's Music Manuscripts: The Last Symphony and Schubert's Manuscripts: The Unfinished Symphony. In the middle of the room is a long row of tables for researchers to consult. The archives used to be Brahms' office. Before he died, he repeatedly told him to donate all his thousands of music books and music scores to the archives.

The concert hall belongs to the Austrian Friends of Music Association, which has more than 7,000 members and is said to be the oldest and largest music organization in the world. The first performance 1 187 was performed by colleagues of the association.

The resplendent architectural style and gorgeous sound effects make it worthy of the resplendent reputation. In the annual TV New Year Concert, music lovers all over the world can watch the "Golden Hall" while listening to music. From the day the concert hall was completed, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra camped here. The "Golden Hall" and the Vienna Philharmonic complement each other, and the "World's No.1 Orchestra" and the "World's Chief Concert Hall" complement each other.

Compared with Amsterdam Concert Hall and Carnegie Concert Hall in new york, this "rectangular shoe box" is really a little longer and narrower. However, its voice is very fluid. Here, the balance between stringed instruments and woodwind instruments, woodwind instruments and brass instruments has reached an ingenious realm. It is precisely because of this that the annual New Year Concert brings unforgettable audio-visual enjoyment to music lovers all over the world.

On June 65438+1 October1Sunday, Beijing time, the annual Berlin New Year Concert was delivered to Beijing audiences on time. Simon, the world-renowned music director of Berlin Philharmonic? Under the command of Ratt, the beautiful melody played again in Berlin Philharmonic Hall. This is also the sixth live broadcast of this major music event by Beijing Music Broadcasting.

The annual Berlin New Year Concert was founded in 1980s by karajan, then artistic director of Berlin Philharmonic. Its protagonist is the world-famous Berlin Philharmonic. The concert started at 5pm on February 3rd1,65438, which happened to be the zero point of Beijing New Year.

To welcome the New Year, there are two major musical events in Europe, one is the Vienna New Year Concert and the other is the Berlin New Year Concert. The Vienna New Year Concert is dominated by the works of the Strauss family every year, while the Berlin New Year Concert is different from it in that it takes a musician, a musical genre or a famous musical work as its theme, and its style is different every year. For example, 1993 Wagner Night, 1999 Great Last Movement Night, Verdi Night in 2000, and American classic musical in 2003 have a central theme every year, which forms the unique style characteristics of Berlin New Year Concert.

The theme of this year's Berlin Philharmonic New Year Concert is "Russian Night". In the first half, Borodin, MD, played Polowitz in his four-act opera King Igor and his second Brave Symphony in B minor. In the second half, Musorgskiy's "Howansinar" prelude and Ravel's "Picture Exhibition" were played.

At 5: 00, 15, accompanied by warm applause, Simon, music director of Berlin Philharmonic and conductor of this concert? Rath happily boarded the podium, and Polowitz's beautiful melody was playing leisurely under his baton. Strings and horns played a prelude composed of lasting sounds, which showed the profound characteristics of Bolowitz national music. Then, under the continuous sound background, the flute plays a soft and mellow tone at the speed of andantino, which makes people intoxicated and fascinated.

Simon? Rath's command skills are superb. He is good at accurately grasping the style of the times of his works, can dig deep into the ideological connotation of music, and is famous for his decisive, vivid, fluent and passionate command language. He is good at conducting modern works, but at the same time his repertoire contains many classical music and early romantic works. After he became the conductor of Berlin Philharmonic, he was highly praised by critics: We were lucky enough to enter Simon? In Rath's time, he had outstanding wisdom, dedication, exploration and dedication, and all great conductors had the ability to lead the orchestra to create the best music.

After the show, Simon? Rath delivered a New Year message to the applause of the audience. At the invitation of continuous applause, Simon? Rath raised his staff again and performed the polka in Shostakovich's opera "Golden Age". The New Year concert also reached its climax in the music of this dance. With warm applause and the audience's "BRAVO" (Italian: Bravo), the 2007 Berlin New Year's Concert ended successfully. The music is still ringing in my ears, but my thoughts have soared in the sky. Let's look forward to the Berlin New Year Concert next year to bring more beautiful music to the audience.

The Royal Concert Hall in Amsterdam is a name familiar to many music lovers. This concert hall is one of the top concert halls in the world, and of course the musicians who can play here are also world-class. It is also the base camp of the famous Amsterdam Royal Concert Hall Orchestra. At the concert, the small auditorium with more than 400 people was packed. Sitting in the last row on the second floor, even when playing the piano and cello. The acoustics of the concert hall are really good, and it really deserves its reputation!