Chiesa della Conversione di San Paolo AKA St. Paul’s Cathedral AKA “The Cathedral in the Countryside” is a gothic style cathedral located in Appiano, Italy that was established in 1147. It’s known for its distinctive and massive 86m (282ft) church tower and for being the cultural center of the area. It features an ornate alter and a renovated, 25 register Reinisch pipe organ.
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Lovett Auditorium is a performance hall on the campus of Murray State University in Kentucky. It’s one of the four original structures on campus from 1926 and it can seat 2,500.
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St Alban's Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio was established in 1892 and was moved to its current location BY OX-PULLED CART in 1897. It closed in 2019 but was known for its wood-carved alter and simple but welcoming design. Also, there was a pipe organ in the loft but I could not find photos of it💔
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Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church is a Romanesque Revival style Catholic Church in New York City that was built in 1887. It’s known for its exquisite acoustics and beautiful stained glass windows. It features a 17 rank Geo. S. Hutchings & Co. pipe organ that has 969 pipes
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The Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music Concert Hall is located in Gdańsk, Poland. The oldest and largest music school in Poland, it was built in 1947 and has 5 concert halls with the largest being able to seat 450.
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Pierre Boulez Saal is a Frank Gehry designed concert hall in Berlin, Germany. The 682 seat hall opened in 2017 and is known for its unique elliptical shape that allows for intimate 360 degree viewing where no audience member is from than a handful of meters away from the artists.
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Chapelle du Couvent des Récollets is a Franciscan convent/monastery (sorry i don’t know any French) in Faubourg-Saint-Martin, Paris, France. It was built in the 17th century and has been used as a convalescence hospital during various wars over the years. It’s known for its beautiful alter which features paintings by the monk Brother Luc and some very beautiful stained glass.
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De Nieuwe Veste is a library and cultural center in Breda, The Netherlands. It was built in the early 1990s and is known for its cutting edge architecture.
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The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts is a theater in Houston, Texas. It opened in 2002 and is comprised of 2 theaters that can seat a combined total of 3,150 people. Due it its location it was one of the few theaters that did not sustain major damage during Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
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and Returning is the #BaroqueSun mainstay Church of Our Lady Bremen (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111876057915635357)
The Stopera is an arts and community complex in Amsterdam, The Netherlands that not only is the base for the National Opera, Ballet and Symphony but also Amsterdam’s City Hall. It was completed in 1986 and is located along the river. The building also features a public art work called “The Violinist” (1991) by De Onbekende Beeldhouwer AKA ~ the Anonymous Sculptor~
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MuziekHaven is a performance space based in a restored 17th century barn turned former church in Zaandam, The Netherlands that was opened in 2010. It can seat 150 and features a restored 18th century pipe organ
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The Stadtwaage AKA The Weigh House at No. 13 is located in Langenstraße, Bremen, Germany and was built sometime in the early 1300s. It housed the municipal commerce weighing scales. It was destroyed during WW2 and rebuilt in 1958. It’s known for having an interesting facade on the outside that reflects its history as a Weight House.
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Returning to #BaroqueSun is mainstay The Church of Our lady Bremen (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111876057915635357)
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church is an Episcopal church in Cleveland Heights, Ohio that was established in 1846 and the current building was completed in 1927. IT’S KNOWN FOR HAVING 3 PIPE ORGANS😍 It has a slightly asymmetrical 3,269 pipe Holtkamp Organ with 61 ranks, a 1,119 pipe Hradetzky Organ with 25 ranks & a particularly rich tone AND as of 2022 a teensy but versatile 5 rank, 250 pipe Slajch Positiv Organ!
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Eglise St-Pierre de Thiré is a Catholic Church in Thiré, France that was built in the late 1100s. The high vaulted ceilings give it excellent acoustics.
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Kirchenschiff der Pfarrkirche is a late Gothic style/modified baroque style parish church in Sterzing, Italy that was completed in 1458. It is known for its beautiful alter.
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And returning is #BaroqueSun favorite The Church of Our Lady Bremen (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111876057915635357)
ClassicFM’s studio is located in Leicester Square in London, England. I couldn’t find much about it other than that it has state of the art recording and broadcasting equipment.
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The Teatro Dal Verme is a theatre in Milan, Italy that was completed in 1872. Originally it was an opera house that could seat 3,000 it now seats a combined total of 1,836 in its 4 performance spaces. It sustained significant damage during WWII air raids and was rebuilt in the late 1940s where it was briefly used as a post-war political meeting hall before becoming a performance space again.
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The Liverpool Philharmonic Hall is located in Liverpool, England and was originally completed in 1849, destroyed due to a fire in 1933, rebuilt and reopened in 1939. A National Heritage Listed building, it can seat nearly 2,000 in its main hall and hosts over 250 events a year. It features a fully restored, 3-manual Rushworth & Dreaper pipe organ that is behind decorative walls on the sides of the orchestra platform.
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teamLab Borderless: Mori Building Digital Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan is the world’s first immersive museum known for its digital, interactive art installations & photo ops. After years of exhibitions and popups the digital art collective teamLab finally created this permanent exhibition space/museum in 2018.
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Vang kirke is a parish church in Hamar, Norway that was build in 1810 and it can seat around 1,000 people. It’s known for its beautiful altarpiece and its fully restored Schucke pipe organ
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Returning to #BaroqueSun is everyone’s favorite 13th century, German, Evangelical Protestant church: The Church of Our Lady Bremen (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111876057915635357)
Bartók Béla National Concert Hall is part of the Arts Complex known as The Müpa Budapest (formerly The Palace of Arts AKA Művészetek Palotája) located in in Ferencváros, Budapest, Hungary. It was opened in 2005 and can seat 1,699. It features one of the largest concert pipe organs in the world. A collaboration between Pécsi Orgonaépítő Manufaktúra and Mühleisen Orgelbau Stuttgart, it has 5 manuals, 92 registers and consists of 6,804 tin and/or reed pipes😍
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Rochdale Town Hall is a Victorian era municipal building in Manchester, England that was completed in late 1870, was partially destroyed in 1883, fully restored by1890 and unfortunately also caught the eye of H*tler sometime in the 1930s and he planned to have it disseminated and then later RE-assembled brick-by-brick in Germany had they won WWII. More importantly, It features a 3,018 pipe J.J Binns built pipe organ that is considered to be one of the organ builder’s finest works😍
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Usher Hall AKA Talla Usher is a concert hall in Edinburgh, Scotland that was completed in 1914 and can seat 2,200. It features a fully restored Norman & Beard built pipe organ that has one of the most intricate internal system of pneumatics that the restorationists (from the famed Harrison & Harrison) had ever seen-including some pieces that were nearly 9ft tall!
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Hong Kong City Hall is an International style municipal building in Hong Kong that was completed in 1962. Of the manual municipal services available in the building it has a concert hall that can seat 1,430 and that regularly hosts performances. It was declared a national monument of Hong Kong in 2022.
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Rachmaninov Concert Hall of the Moscow Conservatory is located on the the premises of Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (est. 1866) in Moscow, Russia. Christened around 1890, it’s the oldest hall at the conservatory, was fully restored in 2014 and can seat about 150.
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National Center for Traditional Arts AKA Center for Traditional Arts is a 24 acre arts center located in Wujie Township, Taiwan. It was built in 2002 and hosts hundreds of events per year.
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Croatian Music Institute AKA Hrvatski glazbeni zavod was open in Zagreb, Croatia in 1976 and is both the oldest and one of the most important music institutions in Croatia. Despite sustaining periodic damage and neglect due to various political tensions, it’s been repeatedly restored to its late 19th century glory.
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Teatro Metropolitano is a performance and convention theater in Santiago de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico that opened in 2012 as part of the architectural complex in the Querétaro Congress Center. It’s considered one of the largest, most well equipped performance spaces in Mexico and hosts about 200 events a year.
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Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood is a concert hall in Lennox, Massachusetts that was built in 1994. It can seat 1,200 inside and is equipped with a barn door at the rear of the hall that can be opened up to the lawn outside for an additional (approx.) 2,000 more listeners! It is considered one of the best concert halls in the USA.
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Fairmount Presbyterian Church is a church located in Cleveland Heights, Ohio that was built in 1915 with funds raised by the local Women’s Aid Society, who were also the cornerstone of the church’s social and community programs during this time. It features beautiful stained glass windows and More importantly, it has a 100 rank Schantz pipe organ in the sanctuary😍
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Marjan Kozina Philharmonic Hall is in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It was built in 1871 and can seat up to 471. It features a Diocesan pipe organ comprised of 2,614 pipes with 40 registers😍
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And St. Paul’s Church in Cleveland Heights Ohio (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/112747917839701348) returns to #BaroqueSun
The Catalonia College of Music AKA Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya, ESMUC is a music school in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain that opened in 1999. In addition to education and performance spaces there is also has an onsite museum.
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Weyenhof was a performance venue in Wasungen, Germany that was built in 1630. It was turned into a performance venue in the 1970s and closed for good in 2019.
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The Royal College of Music is a Gothic Revival style music conservatory in London, England. It opened in 1882 and in contemporary times has as average of 900 students per year not including short and/or special session students. In 2018, the RCM got a shiny new Flentrop Orgelbouw pipe organ complete with 34 stops😍
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Firehouse 12 is a recording studio and performance venue in New Haven, Connecticut that is restored 1905 fire station that is known for its lively yet extremely intimate atmosphere (it seats <100 people!)
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The Banqueting House is a neoclassical style palace located in Whitehall, Central London, England. Thanks to literal bone breaking work of nearly 400 men (2 of whom broke their legs!) it was completed in 1622 and as of the 1698 fire it’s the last surviving building from The Whitehall Palace. It’s known for its gorgeous, 225 sq m ceiling that was designed and painted by Flemish artist and diplomat Sir Peter Paul Rubens and for being the site of the execution of Charles I in 1649.
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Mazā ģilde AKA Small Guild, Riga is a Tudor Neo-Gothic building in Riga, Latvia that was opened in 1866. Originally a home for The Riga Brotherhood of the Holy Spirit it later became the community site for the local merchant guild before becoming an arts space by the mid-1860s. It features 3 theaters that can seat a combined total of 560 people.
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and returning to #BaroqueSun is The Church of Our Lady Bremen (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111876057915635357) and Houston’s The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/112668583626891124)
Martin’s Church AKA The Martinikerk is the oldest church in Groningen, Netherlands and was established in 1225. More importantly, its west gallery features the largest, most famous baroque pipe organ in Europe: The restored to 1740 standards 52 stop, 81 rank Arp-Schnitger Pipe Organ complete with the world’s only original, 32ft tall, Present pipes which are dated from around 1690!😍
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Église Saint-Léger de Fertans is a Roman Catholic Church located in the Fertans Commune in France that was built in the 12th century. It was designated a historical monument in 1988.
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Conservatory Regional Influence De Grand Besançon Métropole AKA Conservatoire du Grand Besançon Métropole is a music and arts conservatory located in Besançon, France. It was established in the late 1960s and features over 80 rehearsal and 5 performance spaces.
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St. Ludgeri is a Gothic style Catholic church in Münster, Germany that was established in late 1100s. It’s one of the oldest religious buildings in northwestern Germany. It’s home to beautiful stain glass windows and more importantly: The Organ of St. Ludgeri😍 an internationally renowned pipe organ that was built in the late 1600s by Arp-Schnitger complete with 46 stops, 76 ranks and comprised over 3,110 pipes. It is the second largest surviving Schnitger Pipe Organ in Germany!
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The Schola Cantorum Basiliensis is a music academy in Basel, Switzerland that was established in 1933. It’s the best known institution for the study of early music and averages around 200 students a year from all over the world.
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The Evangelisch-Lutherse Kerk Groningen AKA The Swan Church AKA The Lutheran Church of Groningen, Netherlands was established in 1696. It’s known for its beautiful stained glass sky lights and for having not just a restored Bernhardt Edskes pipe organ from the late 19th century but also a restored, early 18th century Arp Schnitger pipe organ😍
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The Kingsway Hall was located in Holborn, London, England and was built in 1912. Originally the home of the West London Mission of the Methodist Church, it became one of the most important recording venues for classical music the world over. Sadly, it was demolished in 1998💔(i couldn’t find much info on the pipe organ that wasn’t in a historical text that was not available for shipping to the USA?)
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The Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest is an Art Nouveau style music school in Budapest, Hungary that is the only university of music in the world founded by Franz Liszt. It was founded in 1875 and is also home to The Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum. More importantly, it features a fully restored, four-manual, 74-stop pipe organ that weighs and estimated 23 tons😍
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Maison de la Radio et de la Musique AKA “The Round House” was completed in 1963. It features a 4 manual Gerhard Grenzing pipe organ that has 5,320 pipes (which was featured on the ultra cool Franco-Belgian crime series “Astrid et Raphaëlle!) 😍
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St. Luke’s is an 18th century church located in Islington, London, England that could seat up to 414. It’s currently undergoing renovation so I’ll be editing this at some point in the future.
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Tranquillo Studio is a recording studio and performance space in Milan, Italy that opened in 1997
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Villa Bossi is a Villa and event venue in Bodio Lomnago, Italy. It was built in the early 1500s and is known for its beautiful gardens.
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The Oratorio del Rosario di Santa Cita is a Baroque Roman Catholic chapel located in Palermo, Italy that was founded in the late 1500s. It’s most known for having an intricate altarpiece that depicts a Madonna of the Rosary and Child with Dominican Saints and just beautiful Baroque era artwork throughout.
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Atelierfrankfurt is an art space in Frankfurt, Germany. It hosts everything from art exhibits to live performances to swapmeet and farmer’s markets. It also features a large number of on-site art studios for rent.
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Gościkowo-Paradyż is a monastery complex in Gościkowo, Poland that was established in 1230. After the order was disbanded in 1810 it became an educational building for a local diocese seminary. Originally on 16,000 hectares (61 square MILES!) of land by the post WWII era it had been developed and reshaped to it’s current day size. It features an incredibly ornate altarpiece in the chapel.
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And returning to #BaroqueSun is The Church of Lady Bremen (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111876057915635357)
Zielonogórsko-Gorzowskie Wyższe Seminarium Duchowne is a former monastery in Gościkowo, Poland that was established in 1947 (Sorry, I couldn’t find more info as I don’t know Polish)
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The Academy of Music in Kraków is a conservatory located in Kraków, Poland that was founded in 1888. The Florianka Recital Hall is one of at least 8 performance spaces (again, sorry, I don’t know Polish)
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@analgesicsleep So she's in Italy ... with composer Guido?! #StartsMakingTea 😍 #BaroqueSun
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@analgesicsleep That first piece the poor woman was trying to play and two guys were yanking and pushing in knobs! #BaroqueSun