Returning to #SymSat is Philharmonie de Paris (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/112743056178468410)

The TivoliVredenburg is a performance complex located in Utrecht, The Netherlands. It opened in 2014 and has an average of 1.3 MILLION visitors per year at its 6 performance spaces (pictured are their largest and smallest, respectively)
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The Grand Hall is an Art Nouveau style performance theatre at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music located in Budapest, Hungary. It was built in 1903 and is known for its golden grandeur. In addition to intricate Art Nouveau design, it’s also known for a a four-manual, 74-stop Voit & Söhne pipe organ that weighs approximately 23 tons.
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The Langston Hughes Auditorium is an events space at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture which is a research library and archive of the New York Public Library. It was established and completed in 1905 and is located in Harlem, NYC. is named for Afro-Puerto Rican scholar and Harlem Renaissance icon Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. The auditorium was last renovated in 2008 and can seat an intimate 321 people.
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Preston Bradley Hall is a performance hall at The Chicago Cultural Center located in Chicago, Illinois. It was built in 1887 and features 2 ornate Tiffany glass domes including one that is considered to be the largest Tiffany glass dome in the world.
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Lincoln College Oxford AKA The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln is a hall of University of Oxford located in Oxford, England, It was established in 1427 and accommodates an average of 600 students yearly. Of all of the Oxford affiliated halls it’s notable for being the one that maintains the most 15th century character and aesthetic.
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Lincoln Theater Washington is a Classical Revival style historic theater located in Washington D.C. It opened in 1922 and was a prominent entertainment venue for the local Black community. It desegregated in the early 1950s and as part of what had been known as “Washington’s Black Broadway” it was a centeral meeting point for Black activists. It fell into disrepair in the late 1980s but thanks to a community effort it was revived and restored and is now a popular performance venue again.
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Klosterkirche olsberg is located in Olsberg, Germany. It was originally founded around 1230 as a monastery and by the early 1800s it had become a convent for young women. It’s known for its intricate altar.
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Neubaukirche Würzburg is a former Catholic University Church located in Würzburg, Germany. It was built in the 16th century. It sustained damage during WWI and WWII but was restored in the 1960s. It ceased beign a church in the 1986 and has been used a performance and community meeting space ever since. It features a working Schuke pipe organ that is the second largest organ in the city!
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And returning to #SymSat is Maison de la Radio et de la Musique (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111474933877425291)

United Western Recorders was an independent recording studio complex located in Los Angeles, California It was founded in 1961 & during the 1960s was used by Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys to record “Pet Sounds” (1966) & the the initial sessions for “Smile” and Frank Sinatra also recorded ther in the late 1960s. By the mid-1980s it was sold and split into Ocean Way Recording (now United Recording Studios) on 6050 Sunset Blvd and Cello Studios (now EastWest Studios) on 6000 Sunset Blvd.
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Leeds Town Hall is a Neoclassical-style municipal building in Leeds, England. It opened in 1858 with an opening day attendance of approx. 400,000 to 600,000 people. It sustained damage during WWII era bombings but was restored and reopened at a WWII era communal kitchen and convalesce home through early 1960s. It’s both known for its well appointed interior and b/c it features a gorgeous Gray and Davison of London Pipe Organ complete with 100 stops and 6,500 pipes that weighs 40tons!😍
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Returning to #SymSat are Maison de la Radio et de la Musique (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111474933877425291) and our friends at The Frankfurt Radio Symphony (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/110008383032734891)

Église de Verbier Station is a Catholic Church located in Val de Bagnes, Switzerland that was built in the 1930s and can seat 430.
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Returning to #SymSat is The Berliner Philharmonie and it’s beautiful pipe organ (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/110800867561700793)

The Wiener Konzerthaus is an Art Nouveau style concert halllocated in Vienna, Austria. It opened in 1913
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This week and last week’s #SymSat comes to us from The Wiener Konzerhaus (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/114209885538658882)

De Doelen is a concert venue and events center located in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. It was originally built in 1934 but was largely destroyed by WWII air raids. It was rebuilt in the mid 1960s and consists of 3 main halls with combined seating for 3,600. It features a Flentrop Pipe Organ.
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The Victoria Hall is a 1,700-seat Neo-Classical style concert venue located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was established in 1894 and has endured through multiple wars and multiple fires over the years. It features a beautifully articulate ceiling and a 1993 Van den Heuvel Pipe Organ consisting of 82 stops and over 2,000 pipes😍
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Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111910924352553128) makes its return to #SymSat

Columbia 30th Street Studio AKA CBS 30th Street Studio AKA “The Church” was a recording studio located in Manhattan, NYC. It was originally a Presbyterian Church in the late 1800s and was abandoned by the time WWII rolled around. It was revamped and opened as a recording studio in 1948. Everyone from Jazz greats like Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday,etc. to Simon and Garfunkel and Bob Dylan and John Cale recorded there until it finally closed in the early 1980s.
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ArtYard is a contemporary visual art gallery and art education center loacated in Brooklyn, NYC. It opened in 2005.
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Returning to #SymSat is The Barbican (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/112426061307502624) and Maison de la Radio et de la Musique (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/110880228814688857)

Smith Square Hall AKA Sinfonia Smith Square FKA St. John’s Smith Square is an English Baroque-style concert hall located in Westminster, London, England. It was established as a Church of England church in 1728but was seriously damaged in a WWII era firebombing. It was restored in 1965 and began its new life as a concert hall. It features a Mander Pipe Organ comprised of 3,574 pipes😍
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#SymSat mainstay The Frankfurt Radio Symphony and their concert halls return (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/110008383032734891)

The Frankfurt Radio Symphony returns again (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/110008383032734891)!
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Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw returns to #SymSat (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/110364883591057886)

The Wiener Konzerthaus Returns to #SymSat (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/114209885538658882)

Lee Foundation Theatre is a performance space at The Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore. It was built in the mid-1990s and can seat 380.
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Memorial Hall AKA UNC Memorial Hall is a performance theater on the campus of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was originally built in 1883 for campus events like visiting lectures, commencements and basketball games (??). It was rebuilt in the 1930s to become a place dedicated to performances and community events. It’s currently closed to the public for more renovations.
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The Pearl City Cultural Center AKA The Michael D. Nakasone Performing Arts Center is a performing arts and cultural center located in Pearl City, Hawaii. It was built in 1995 and can seat approximately 700.
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National Taiwan Normal University Assembly Hall is a performance hall on the campus of National Taiwan Normal University located in Taipei City, Taiwan.
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Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music AKA Karola Szymanowskiego w Katowicach is a music school located in Katowice, Poland. It was established in 1929 but the main performance hall is in a late 19th century Neo-Gothic building that can seat 480. Also, it The Museum of Silesian Organ resides in the basement!
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Esplanade: Theatres on the Bay is a Performing Arts Centre located in Downtown Core, Singapore near the Singapore River. It was completed in 2002 and its five venues can seat a combined total of 3,600 people. It wasn’t designed to look like the infamous Durian fruit but it does so locals nicknamed it “the two durians”. The largest performance hall features a pipe organ with 4,740 pipes and 61 stops designed by Johannes Klais Orgelbau
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Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/110959419608784194) returns to #SymSat

The Konzerthaus Berlin (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/113694717383311609) returns to #SymSat

TivoliVredenburg (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/110959446325679609) returns to #SymSat

Stadsschouwburg Antwerp is a modernist style performing arts venue located in Antwerp, Belgium. It was built in 1980s and can seat about 2000 people!
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The Stanisław Moniuszko Academy of Music in Gdańsk, Poland (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111118024183140718) and Maison de la Radio et de la Musique (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/110880228814688857) in France return to #SymSat

Riverside Studios is a former film and television studio located in Hammersmith, London, England. It was established in early 1930s in a former Victorian era ironworks and after WWII it was retired as a film & televison studio and turned into a radio and performance space by the late 1950s. It was decommissioned by the late 80s and currently sits unused💔
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