Bohuslav Martinů Hall is a concert hall located inside the Lichtenstein Palace in Prague. The intimate room can seat only 200 and is mostly used for concerts by graduates of The Academy of Performing Arts. (Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any info about the hall’s pipe organ🤬)
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And, of course, returning to #BaroqueSun is the Church of Our Lady Bremen (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111876057915635357)
Aula Simfonia Jakarta is a 1200-capacity concert hall located in Kemayoran, Jakarta, Indonesia that opened in 2009. In addition to its immense size it’s also known for its Casavant Frères pipe organ that was originally built in 1962 and is comprised of over 3,000 pipes. It weighs more than 10 TONS😍
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Returning to #BaroqueSun are our friends at The Frankfort Radio Symphony ( https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111836474107242549)
The Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux is an opera house in Bordeaux, France that was first opened in 1780. It can seat 1,100 and is known for its exquisite frescos and interiors. Sadly, due to recent renovations it’s currently without a pipe organ but I hope to report on one once they are complete💔
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NYC’s The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/113382217093022037) and Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/112192968664527882) return to #BaroqueSun
Teatro La Fenice is historic opera house located in Venice, Italy that was first opened in 1792. It can seat 1,126 and has survived at least 3 fires and damage from war. It’s known for its breathtakingly beautiful interior.
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Torre del Colle is a medieval era commune in located in Bevagna, Perugia, Italy that currently boasts 33 full time residents.
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Yodobashi Church, Wesleyan Holiness Church is a church in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. (Sorry I don’t know more but I know less than no Japanese)
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Trinity Cathedral Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located in Cleveland, Ohio that was first founded in 1816 and finally built in 1901. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. As of 2021, it features a 51-rank pipe organ that is just gorgeous😍
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The St. Anne and St. Agnes Church is located in London, England and was originally built pre-1500 but had to be rebuilt due a fire in 1680 and again after The Blitz. The Pipe organ was restored in the 1990s but sadly I could not find much more info than that(💔)
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The Grand Théâtre de Dijon is an opera and performing arts house in Dijon, France that was built in 1828. Despite being able to seat only 692 it’s said that it was designed to make every member of the audience feel as if the sound is directly in front of them.
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Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall AKA Koncertna Dvorana Vatroslava Lisinskog is a concert hall and convention center located in Zagreb, Croatia. It was completed in 1973 and its largest hall can seat 1,841. It sees an average of over 760,000 visitors per year. It features a Umjetnička radionica Heferer restored 5 manual pipe organ comprised of 10,244 pipes, 201 ranks and 131 stops😍
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Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall is a concert hall located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. It was completed in 1996 and features a 54 floor tower that is 234 metres (768 ft) tall! More importantly, it has a 3,826-pipe Kuhn pipe organ that resides in the balcony😍
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Atlanta Symphony Hall is a performance hall of The Woodruff Arts Center, a visual and performing arts center located in Atlanta, Georgia. It was built 1968 and can seat a total of 1,762. It’s well known for recordings featuring the esteemed conductor Robert Shaw from 1970s and 1980s.
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St. Ignatius of Antioch is a Late Gothic Revival style Episcopal church in NYC that was built in 1903. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. In addition to its beautiful alter it’s also features a refurbished 1966 Frères pipe organ that is known for being particularly suited for Renaissance era music.
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Herrenhäuser Gärten AKA Schloss Herrenhausen AKA Herrenhausen Gallery is a Broque-style Palace in Hannover, Germany that is known for its intricate architecture by Johann Peter Wachter and its impeccably maintained gardens
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The Hyogo Performing Arts Center AKA Hyōgo-kenritsu Geijutsu Bunka Sentā is a performing arts center located in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan that was opened in 2005. Due its unique shape and intricate acoustics engineering it’s considered to be an architectural marvel and it’s won multiple design awards over the years. It’s comprised of 3 performance spaces that combined can seat a total of 3,218!
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Münster Unserer Lieben Frau AKA Freiburger Münster AKA The Freiburg Minster is a Gothic style Roman Catholic cathedral located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. It was completed around 1330 and features the only Gothic era church tower to survive WWII and intricate external carvings, gargoyles, stained glass and a particularly well appointed alter. It also has 4 Pipe Organs by Rieger (x 2), Marcussen and Metzler !!!😍
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Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ AKA “Music Building on the IJ” is a concert hall and music education space in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It opened in 2005 and is known for not just its unique location but also for having moveable pannels that allow the concert hall’s layout to be changed according to use.
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Geertekerk Utrecht is a Neo-Romanesque style church located in Utrecht, The Netherlands that was built around 1255 and its tower was built around the 1350s. Over the years it has been used as a church, stables, wartime barracks and logistical sites and a convalescent space. The tower features multiple bells of various sizes weighing between 2,500lbs and 150lbs. It also features a 3 manual pipe organ originally built in the early 19th century by Johannes Stephanus Strümphler.
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The Laeiszhalle AKA Musikhalle is a Baroque Revival style concert hall located in Hamburg, Germany. It was established and completed in 1908 and its Grand Hall can seat a little over 2,000. It features a Neo-Baroque Beckerath Pipe Organ with a 1908 era Walcker case and 59 stops that is due to be restored in the next year or so
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The Theater in der Josefstadt is a theater located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded in 1788 and over the years has been rebuilt several times- most recently in the early 1960s. One of Vienna’s most popular theaters, it averages over 350,000 visitors per season
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The Staatsoper Unter den Linden AKA Berlin State Opera is a performance venue located in Berlin, Germany. the 1,300 capacity venue was originally built in the early 1740s but due to damage sustained during WWII it had to be rebuilt in the mid 1950s. It’s known for its opulent interior.
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Radio Kootwijk is based in an Art Deco style building located in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands. It was built in 1918. Once a tool to aid in The Netherland’s colonization efforts abroad, it’s now a performance and art space in addition to being home to a radio station.
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Kursaal Bad Cannstatt is an Art Nouveau style events space located in Stuttgart, Germany that was built in the 19th century as a spa house.
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Spiegelsaal AKA THe Great Hall of Mirrors of the Brandenburg, Germany located Schloss Rheinsberg was built around 1750. It has been used as a military barracks, a convalescent home, and now a performance space, museum and garden.
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The Deutsche Evangelische Christuskirche is a Lutheran church located in Knightsbridge, London that was established in the 1860s and built around 1904. It’s considered the most significant German church in London
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Waalse Kerk AKA The Walloon Church is a Protestant church located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. It was originally built in the late 15th century for a local Roman Catholic monastery, rebuilt after a fire in the mid 1400s and changed to a Protestant faith after the Protestant Reformation. It features a 230ft tall Nicholas Langlez built pipe organ complete with 2,045 pipes😍
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Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre is a performance and events space located in Reykjavík, Iceland. It was built in the late 00s and the main hall can seat 1,800. It’s mostly known for its beautiful modern architecture style complete with designs by Danish artist Olafur Eliasson.
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Venezia Chiesa di San Vidal is a former Baroque-style Roman Catholic Church that is now a performance space located in Venice, Italy. It was erected in the late 11th century and is known for it’s beautifully restored interior that includes an altarpiece centered around the painting “San Vidal on Horseback with eight saints” by Vittore Carpaccio from 1514
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The Schola Cantorum Basiliensis is a music academy and research institution located in Basel, Switzerland that was founded in 1933. It’s known for its rigorous focus on early music.
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Salle des Combins is a performance venue located in Bagnes, Switzerland. It can seat 1,407
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Longyearbyen Kulturhus is a civic center in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway. It was built after World War II when the town was rebuilt following war related damage
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Grønnåsen Kirke AKA Grønnåsen Church is an Evangelical Lutheran Parish Chruch located in Tromsø, Norway. It was established and built in the mid-1990s. It’s known for its unique shape and lanterns at the altar. Also, it features a multi octave pipe organ that was installed in 2001.
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The Boston Anthenaeum is one of the oldest independent libraries in the USA. This Neoclassical Renaissance Revival-style library was built in Boston, Massachusetts in 1807 and features a rare book collection of over 100,000 and is home to the world’s most complete and important collections of American Civil War primary source materials. Nowadays it’s in use as a libaray, a research a museum and a small events space.
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Holman United Methodist Church is a midcentury modern style church in Los, Angeles, California. It was built in 1945 and was LA’s main home of worship for the Black Methodist community at the time. It does have a pipe organ but no information was listed anywhere and no one responded to my email💔
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Co-Cathedral of Santa María is a Baroque-style Roman Catholic cathedral located in Vigo, Spain. It was completed in 1834 and combined with The Tui Cathedral after it burned down after having been established in the 1500s. It features beautifully intricate interior and altar .
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Theater Großes Haus is located in Göttingen, Germany and unfortunately I could only find information in extremely intimidating German so I will be editing this later once I get translations😔
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The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/112668583626891124) returns to #BaroqueSun
Wigmore Hall in London, England was built in either 1899 or 1901 (???) and seats just 545 but hosts over 500 performances a year.
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Returning to #BaroqueSun are Stuttgart, Germany’s Kultur-und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111954724418206220), Geertekerk Utrecht from Utrecht, the Netherlands (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/113739126855370297) and Zagreb’s Croatian Music Institute AKA Hrvatski Glazbeni Zavod (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/112906365614182762)
The Lviv Organ Hall is a 400 seat concert hall located within the 17th century Roman Catholic church of St. Mary Magdalene in Lviv, Ukraine. Opened in 1988, it’s home to a 1930s era Rieger–Kloss Pipe Organ that consists of 77 registers, 4 manuals and 3,846 pipes. It’s considered to be one of the largest Pipe Organ in Ukraine😍
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Palazzo Vescovile di Orte AKA The Episcopal Palace of Orte is an Episcopalian church located in Orte, Italy. It was built in the 1400s.
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Iglesia de San Martín de Ampúrias is a former church located in Costa Brava, Catalonia. It was established in 1507 and is now partially a small local history museum.
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The Teatru Manoel is a theatre located in Il-Belt Valletta, Malta. It was built in 1731 and can seat an intimate 623. Despite its size it’s known for its gorgeous interior and exquisite sound design. During WWII it functioned as a bomb shelter and community medical outpost. It is a listed Antiquities Building of Malta as of 1925.
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Jozefkathedraal te Groningen AKA St. Joseph’s Cathedral of the Diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden is a Neo-Gothic style cathedral located in Groningen, The Netherlands. It was established in 1885 and in addition to it’s gold guided interior and altar it features a 2 manual Maarschalkerweerd & Zoon Pipe Organ
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The Westwood Playhouse AKA Comptempo Theatre AKA The Geffen Playhouse is a theater located in Los Angeles, California. It was built in 1929 and was renamed after David Geffen in the mid90s. It sees an average of more than 130,000 visitors a year!
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Universität Mozarteum Salzburg is a public arts college located in Salzburg, Austria. It was established in 1841. It features 2 Pipe Organs: A 100 rank Hermann Eule Orgelbau Pipe organ with the façade of the original 1914 Rieger Pipe Organ😍 and a smaller 25 stop Rieger Pipe Organ that unfortunately is said to be in rough shape 💔
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The National Theatre of Győr is a performance center located in Győr, Hungary. It opened 1978 and can seat nearly 800 people. The theater averages nearly 130,000 visitors per year.
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Gladstone Hotel AKA Gladstone House is a Romanesque Rival style boutique hotel located in Toronto, Canada. It was originally built in 1889 and was christened “The Most Modern Hotel in Toronto” and ad of the early 1970 is a registered Historical Property.
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Aga Khan Museum is a Modernist-style museum that was established in 2014 located in Toronto, Canada. It’s known for its focus on Islamic and MENA region arts and culture. It is home to over 1000 objects- some of which date back to the 7th century. It also features a 350 seat auditorium for lectures, events and performances.
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Kloster Machern AKA The Machern Abey is a Baroque style former Cicstercian Roman Catholic Monastery located in Zeltingen-Rachtig, Germany. It was founded in the 13th century and secularized in the early 1800s. After a major renovation in the 1970s (still maintaining important features of its life as a Monastary like the Altar and such) it became a cultural site featuring a museum, a brewery and performance space.
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Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity is an arts educational institution in Banff, Alberta, Canada that was built in 1933. It’s campus resides in the Tunnel Mountain AKA Iinii Istako (Blackfoot) AKA Eyarhey Tatanga Woweyahgey Wakân (Stoney) of Banff National Park. It is known for being the home of arts residency programs for pretty much any medium and for the beautiful natural surroundings
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The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts is a performing arts center on the campus of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was established in 1997 and consists of 4 performance halls that can seat between 1,200 and 100 each. #ActionMatineeBSG / #BattlestarGalactica fans may recognize it from the Meeting of the Quorum of Twelve!
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