Court Square Theater
Year 1910. Year 1911. 1,860 seats. 1910 Concert Springfield 24-02-1910. 1911 Concert Springfield 15-02-1911. The Court Square Theater opened on 21-09-1892 and was closed/demolished in 1956. Located at Court Square directly across from City Hall, this ornate palace presented live theater-movie combos right up to its closing in 1956. For a brief period of time […]
Music Conservatory
1,750 seats. Year 1907. 1907 Concert St Petersburg 26-10-1907. 1907 Concert St Petersburg 09-11-1907 – Symphony No. 5. The first music professional institution (Music Conservatory) appeared in 1862 in St Petersburg thanks to the Russian pianist and composer Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894). The school alumni have included such notable composers as Pjotr Iljitsj Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Sergej […]
Hall of the Nobles
2,000 seats. Year 1902. 1902 Concert St Petersburg 18-03-1902. 1902 Concert St Petersburg 22-03-1902. 1902 Concert St Petersburg 27-03-1902. The building housing the Philharmonia was constructed in 1839 by the architect P. Jacot (the facade designed by C. Rossi) for the St Petersburg Assembly of the Nobility. The hall with its wonderful acoustics and a […]
Convention Hall
Year 1910. 3,000 seats. 1910 Concert Rochester 08-12-1910. Constructed in 1868 as an arsenal, this building housed the 54th Regiment which, in 1871, was dispatched to subdue canal workers west of Fairport. In 1907 the militia moved to the new armory on East Main Street and this site was converted to a convention hall. In […]
Infantry Hall
Year 1910. 2,000 seats. 1910 Concert Providence 25-02-1910. South Main Street. Constructed in 1879, Infantry Hall would serve for the next 63 years as a major Providence venue on South Main Street for concerts, recitals, political rallies (Teddy Roosevelt too), basketball, boxing matches, food fairs and dances. Toscanini, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, Monteux conducted orchestras […]
Prague Königlich Deutsches Landestheater
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) worked here in Year 1885 and Year 1886. Built 1781-1783. 1,900 seats. The Prague Koniglich Deutsches Landestheater is considered Prague’s most beautiful neo-classical building. Its history is closely associated with major European and Czech composers, virtuosi, and with the Czech national revival. Count František Nostitz had it built at his own expense and with the permission of […]
Deutsches Interims Theater
Year 1886 Interims-Theater, Theatre Variete, Nemecke prozatimni divadlo District: Karlin Address: Karolinenthal, Palackystrasse No. 10, Hudebni divadlo Karline. Now: Krizikova 283/10 Prague City of Prague map Gustav Mahler 1,100 seats. The German Interim Theater was a Vaudeville (variety) theater built in 1881. Designed for circus and varieté performances and for spoken and sung words absolutely inappropriate. […]
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall
Year 1910. 2,600 seats. 1910 Concert Pittsburgh 05-12-1910. Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall is a National Register of Historic Places landmark in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the largest memorial in the United States dedicated solely to honoring all branches of military veterans and service personnel. It was conceived by the Grand Army of […]
Deutsch Casino
Year 1883. 1883 Concert Olomouc 24-02-1883 (piano). Riegrova ulice, Rieger Street No. 5/404. 300 seats. The People’s House (Das Haus des Volkes) with a German casino. Rebuilt in 1830. Deutsch Casino. Deutsch Casino. Deutsch Casino. Deutsch Casino.
New Theater
2,300 seats Year 1910 1910 Concert New York 01-02-1910. Year 1909. Exterior New Theater. New Theater (later: Century Theatre) on Central Park West in New York City, taken from the northeast. The New Theatre was once called “New York’s most spectacularly unsuccessful theater” in the WPA Guide to New York City. Envisioned in 1906 by Heinrich […]