The Carnegie Hall is a New Yorkean concert hall , located at the angle of the 7 {{E}} which occurred and 57 {{E}} street, in the district of Manhattan, just in the south of Central Park. As well for the classical music as popular, it is a place very snuffed with the the United States, which owes its reputation with its architectural beauty, its history and also with very good acoustics.

Auditoriums

Carnegie Hall has three auditoriums: Hand Hall, Recital Hall and Chamber Music Hall.

Hand Hall

It can accommodate 2.804 spectators sitted out of five levels. It is called now officially Auditorium Isaac Stern.

The Hand Hall is a place which releases a cordial environment and which has good acoustics. The Philharmonic orchestra of New York, which played there before, now moved with the Lincoln Center, in Avery Fisher Hall. Many criticisms regret this departure.

The Hand Hall is very high of ceiling, and the spectators of the last balcony must climb 105 steps to reach it.

The majority of the largest traditional musicians of the 20th century occurred there. Its hall is decorated with memories, signed portraits.

Other rooms

Both plus small rooms, whom one now calls Judy and Arthur Zankel Hall and Joan and Sanford I. Weill Recital Hall, respectively contain 599 and 268 sitted places. The two larger auditoriums were renamed following their restoration supplements in 1986. Smallest had been rented with AADA in 1898 and had been tranformé as a cinema about 1959. One decided to re-use it for the music in 1997 and it opened its doors in 2003.

In the enclosure of Carnegie Hall, one also finds the Pink Museum and Carnegie Hall Files, who are two relatively recent extensions.

Structure

Carnegie Hall was conceived by William Burnet Tuthill. It is built out of bricks and brown stone, in an Italian Renaissance style. It is one of the only large buildings of New York entirely made in masonry, without any metal structure. The frontage is covered with narrow bricks, of ocher color, with stone and terra cotta details. The hall avoids the exaggerations baroques and is inspired with elegance by the Florentin style. One can find there similarities with the Chapelle Pazzi of Filippo Brunelleschi: round openings, harmoniously surrounded by gray stone and white plaster, Corinthian pilasters which support a surmounted cornice of glasses, under an arched ceiling. The famous interior, white decoration and gold, respect the same sobriety of style.

History

It is Andrew Carnegie which financed the theater who then bore her name. Its construction started in 1890 and the inauguration took place on May 5th 1891, with a concert of Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski. However, work continued until 1897.

The Hall remained property of the Carnegie family until 1925, when the widow of Andrew sold it to a property developer, Robert E. Simon. In the Années 1960, when the Philharmonic one of New York moved with the Lincoln Center, one thought of destroying the building to replace it by a commercial building. Under the pressure of a group carried out by Isaac Stern, the town of New York bought it for 5 million dollars and rented it with an association with nonlucrative goal. He was declared historic building in 1964, and entirely renovated between 1983 and 1995 per James Polshek, known later to have designed the new planetarium of the American Museum off Natural History.

In spite of the statute protecting from now on this monument, one could not completely prevent the construction of a commercial building. Between 1987 and 1989, one built in the same block a building of 60 stages, which shelters at the same time trade and residences, called Carnegie Hall Tower.

Files of Carnegie Hall

One realized, in 1986, that this high place of the music had curiously not preserved files on its history, and that all the documents and memories relating to it were dispersed. One then launched a large information campaign, using publicities and of messages in the media, which caused an excellent reaction of the general public: many music lovers had preserved their old programs. The managers of Carnegie Hall did not accept any less than 12.000, as well as other objects and documents, which made it possible to reconstitute most of its history.

External bond

• Official site Carnegie Hall

Reference

• Richard Schickel, The World off Carnegie Hall, 1960.

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