Located on the campus of Towson, Maryland’s Townson University, the Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall is the largest venue on site and can seat 500. It’s home to a 1973 Opus pipe organ with over 2,300 pipes that is built into the walls of the concert hall.
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Paul Voertman Concert Hall is 1 of 10 performance spaces on the University of North Texas campus. It was completed in the late 1950s but was demolished, renovated & reopened in 2010 and can seat 380. It features state of the art sound design to achieve superior acoustics.
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Detroit Symphony Orchestra- the USA’s 4th oldest orchestra- performs at OrchestraHall in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. It originally Opened in 1919 and can seat 2000. It has a 6,263 pipe Electro-pneumatic Organ.
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Brussels Centre for Fine Arts is located in Brussels, Belgium and was completed in 1928 in Art Deco style by architect Victor Horta. It features an egg-shaped main hall that can seat 2, 200 and a pipe organ with 4,000 pipes, both were sadly damaged in fires in the 1960s and in 2022 but have been successfully restored since
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The Frankfort Radio Symphony’s Alte Oper was built in 1873 by Philipp Holzmann and rebuilt and reopened in 1981 after it had been nearly demolished by air raids during WWII. It hosts 2 halls that seat over 1,400 people combined and a pipe organ that is known for its power.
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Vézelay Abbey is a Benedictine and Cluniac monastery in Burgundy, France. It was established sometime in the 9th century In 1979 it was added to UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites. It was discovered that the abbey was built in a way that at midday during solstices sunlight creates paths of light throughout the abbey. There is a pipe organ onsite but it was added in the 1990s.
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The Church of Corpus Christi is a Roman Catholic church in Manhattan, New York. It was built and established in 1906. It’s known for its beautiful interior and for its fully restored 1956, 3 rank Holtkamp pipe organ.
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The Helsinki Music Centre in Töölönlahti,Helsinki. It was completed in 2011 and its main hall seats 1,704. It’s 5 smaller rooms are used by the Sibelius Academy. It has the largest concert hall organ in Europe with 123 registers.
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The Church of Our Lady Bremen is an Evangelical Protestant church in Bremen, Germany. It was built in the 13th century but the interior has been restored multiple times due to fires over the years. It’s known for its beautiful stained-glass windows and for having an ornate, 40 stop Paul Ott pipe organ
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The Convent of Annunciata is located in Milan, Italy and was built in the 15th century. It is now used as an artists space and venue for events and performances. It’s mostly known for its beautiful but unrestored frescos.
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Kørup Church is a Lutheran Church in Odense, Denmark that was established around 1288.
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Garrison Church is located in Copenhagen, Denmark and was originally built for military personnel in the 18th century. The Romantic composer Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann (husband of composer Emma Hartmann) is buried on the grounds of the church. It has a gorgeous 45 register Orgelbyggeri pipe organ that has 2,861 pipes that are tuned in a historical tuning that while more limited in range are incredibly tonally evocative😍
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Westminster United Church is a gothic style located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was originally opened in 1892 and officially became the “United Church” in 1925 when three local denominations formed a union. In honor of its centennial anniversary in 1992 it was designated as a Provincial Heritage Building. In addition to beautiful stained glass it also features a Casavant pipe organ that is one of the three largest pipe organs in the province.
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Goot Studios is an award winning creative space in London, England that’s known for its vintage aesthetic.
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And returning to #BaroqueSun is The Church of Our Lady Bremen and its beautiful alter (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111876057915635357)

Returning to #BaroqueSun is The Brussels Centre for Fine Arts (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111836463051507130)

The Hall of Mirrors at Schloss Köthen in Germany is the former creative home of Johann Sebastian Bach (under Prince Leopold) and is the current home of Köthen's biannual Bach festival.
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The Kultur-und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle in Stuttgart, Germany was built in 1956 and is considered one of the most important German cultural buildings of the post-WWII period. It features a unique looking 69 register pipe organ that has over 6,000 pipes.
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Riga Cathedral (formally The Cathedral Church of Saint Mary) is an Evangelical Lutheran cathedral in Riga, Latvia that was established in 1211. It features a fully restored 4 manual, 18 combination E.F. Walcker & Sons pipe organ that has 6,718 pipes😍
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The Church of Our Lady Bremen returns to #BaroqueSun (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111876057915635357)

Royal Albert Hall in London, England was built in the late 1860s and can seat 5,272 people. It is home to the magnificent 9,999 pipe Henry Willis Grand Organ.
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Gran Teatre del Liceu is an opera house in Barcelona, Spain. Founded in 1837, and despite moving locations it’s the oldest theatre in Barcelona. It was in the news for performing for an all plant audience due to the pandemic (https://youtu.be/i9BRbtIgipQ?si=PYfmv9YBBs1lUeNH)
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The Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. It was built in 1886 and the main hall can set just shy of 2,000 people. It has a pipe organ with 60 registers from 1890.
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Tonali is a concert hall in Hamburg, Germany that hosts various art and creative events.
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Schloss Grafenegg is a romantic style castle in Grafenegg, Austria that was built in the late 13th century. It’s known for its beautiful gardens and spacious grounds. In 2007, the Wolkenturm, an open-air stage which can seat around 2,000 total seats and lawn combined.
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The Johanneskirche AKA Church of St. John is a Roman Catholic church located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Despite its limited sized (it seats only 900!) the high ceilings give it beautiful acoustics. It features a Metzler pipe organ withe 50 stops and 3,536 pipes It also has a split console so that two organ players can play music simultaneously.
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Returning to #BaroqueSun is The Church of Our Lady Bremen and it’s beautiful alter (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111876057915635357)

First Parish Cambridge is a Unitarian Universalist Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The church has a storied 400yr history of various spiritual and congregational changes. It has a restored Frobenius pipe organ with 40 stops and 2,949 pipes and is tonally designed with neo-classical music in mind.
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Winspear hall at the University of North Texas’s Murchison Performing Arts Center can seat 1,025. (Unfortunately, I could not find information on their pipe organ)
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The Concert Hall of the conservatoire Royal Northern College of Music is located in Manchester, England. It was recently fully refurbished and can seat nearly 800 people. Its unique octagonal space also features a Hradetsky 4 manual concert pipe organ.
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Lutherse Kerk is a Lutheran church in Haarlem, Netherlands that was built in 1615. It features a 4register, fully restored Strobel pipe organ.
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Abbazia di Maguzzano is a 15th century Catholic abbey near the town of Simione, Italy. It is now partially a museum, a school for iconography and a space for music arts events.
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Schloss Hellbrunn is an early Baroque villa in Salzburg, Austria that was completed in 1619 for the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg. It is most known for its beautiful interiors and grounds which make it a popular tourist and events hosting destination in the summer months.
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The Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111995080646160469) returns to #BaroqueSun

The Seoul Arts Center is an arts complex in Seocho District, Seoul, South Korea. It it comprised of five main buildings: the Opera House (with three auditoriums), the Music Hall (with two concert halls), the Hangaram Art Museum, the Hangaram Design Museum, and the Seoul Calligraphy Art Museum. The Music Hall was completed in 1988 and its concert hall can seat 2,523 people while the recital hall is more intimate with seating for only 354. The Seoul Arts Center has no pipe organ💔
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The Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra rehearse and perform at the Oslo Concert Hall in Vika, Oslo, Norway. It was completed in 1977 and can seat 1,600 people. It is home to the 2nd largest pipe organ in Norway with 7,000 pipes
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Església de Sant Andreu in Santanyí, Spain was completed in 1811. It’s an exceptionally unique building in that it’s built out of special sandstones from Santanyí. It’s known for its bell tower and for its massive altarpiece. The altarpiece and exquisite, 2 manual Jordi Bosch- designed pipe organ were brought to Santanyí after the minister Mendizábal ordered the monastery’s property seized😱 The pipe organ was so large, that the church had to be redesigned to accommodate it!
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity was established in 1904 in NYC. It’s known for its beautiful altar, gorgeous pipe organs and the Bach Vespers series (https://www.holytrinitynyc.org/bach-vespers) which began in 1968. It’s the first instance in The USA where the Bach Cantatas can be heard on their appointed day in the context of the liturgical calendar performed by a professional Bach Choir. Also, the church was featured in the 1984 film “Ghostbusters”!
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