Dr. Dani SanchezEastminister United Church AKA East End United church is a Gothic Revival-style United Church of Canada church located in Toronto, Canada, It was built in 1923 and in 2022 it was officially designated as a Heritage status landmark for the City of Toronto. It features a 3-manual Pipe Organ at the altar!
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Pierre Boulez Saal (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/112668573603667511) and The Royal Albert Hall (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111995050941041338) return to #BaroqueSun
Chiesa di San Rufo AKA Saint Rufo Church is a Baroque-style Roman Catholic Church located in Rieti Italy. It’s estimated to have been built around the mid-1750s and is rumored to be thee geographic center of Italy. Its ornate interior features a 4 manual pipe organ and works of art by infamous murderous jerk and painter Caravaggio.d
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The Roman amphitheatre of Italica is a second century Roman-style amphitheater located in Seville, Spain. It’s estimated to have once been able to accommodate an audience of 25,000. It was mostly used for Gladiatorial fights.
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The Concert Studio of Polish National Radio in Katowice, Poland. The 337,000 ft² concert hall has 2 performance spaces that can seat 1,800 and 300, respectively.
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Basililica di Santa Cecilia is a Baroque-style Roman Catholic Church located in Trastevere, Italy that was originally built around the 5th century and later updated in the Baroque-style in 1750s
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Chiesa di Santa Maria Della Scalia is a Roman Catholic Church that is a former monastery located in Moncalieri, Italy.
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The Koussevitzky Music Shed is a contemporary-style open air performance venue located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It was opened in 1938 and can seat over 5,000 indoors with space for an additional approx. 15,000 on the lawn!
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Kloster Eberbach AKA Eberbach Abbey is an EarlyGothic Romanesque-style former Cistercian Catholic Monastery located in Rheingau, Germany. It was established in 1136 as a monastery but is now a performance space and home to a well regarded winery. Some might recognize it from the Sean Connery film “The Name of the Rose” (1985).
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The Villa della Regina is a Baroque- style palace located in Turin, Italy. It was built in the early 1600s for Prince-Cardinal Maurice of Savoy and features many large frescoes, which was the style at the time. It was heavily damaged during WWII but after some renovation it opened to the public for tours and hosting cultural events. In 1997 it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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The Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory is a musical education conservatory located in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It was established in 1944 and on average has about 1000 students per year. It’s also home to a Schuke Orgelbau Pipe Organ comprised of 250 pipes. It’s one of the oldest Pipe Organs in Kazakhstan.
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Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center is part of The University of Maryland’s School of Music located in College Park, Maryland. It was built in 1990 and can seat 970. It’s known for its uniquely vaulted ceiling.
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Church of St. Luke in the Fields in an Episcopal CHurhc lasted in Greenwich Village, NYC. It was established in 1822 and is the area’s oldest religious meeting place. It features a 27 stop Pipe Organ comprised of 1,670 pipes!
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Anglikanskaya Tserkov' Svyatogo Andreya AKA St. Andrew’s Church is the only Anglican Church located in Moscow, Russia. While Anglican worship was established in the mid 1550s, this Gothic Revival-style church was completed in 1884.
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Ópera real de Versalles AKA The Royal Opera of Versailles AKA Théâtre Gabriel (after its architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel) is the theatre and opera house of the Palace of Versailles located in Versailles, France. It was completed in 1770 and can accommodate up to 1,200. It’s undergone multiple rounds of renovation, repairs and restorations over the years- most significantly after WWII. It’s considered to be one of the finest 18th century, European opera houses.
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Hospital de los Venerables AKA The Hospital of the Venerable is a Baroque-style church and former residence for priests located in Seville, Spain. It was established in 1675, was briefly a textile factory in the 1840s but remained a residence until the early 1970s. It’s known for its beautiful and intricate ceilings and altars. Also, it features a Gerhard Grenzing Pipe Organ complete with 45 stops and over 3,000 pipes😍
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Les collégiens de Victor-Hugo is school located in Cachan, France. Sorry, i couldn’t’ find much information in english and I have a migraine. I’ll make note to rewrite this when I’m better
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The Croatian Music Institute (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/112906365614182762) returns to #BaroqueSun
The Auditorio ICPNA Miraflores is a performance space at the The Peruvian North American Cultural Institute located in Lima, Perú. It can seat an intimate 150 people and was originally built in 1938.
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Returning to #BaroqueSun is The Concert Studio of Polish National Radio (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/115046846481900985) and The Church of Our Lady Bremen (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111876057915635357)
The Juilliard School is a private performing arts conservatory in NYC. It was established in 1905 and averages a little over 1,000 full time students and hosts over 700 performances yearly!
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Théâtre du Capitole AKA The Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse is a Neoclassical style opera house located in Toulouse, France. It was established in the 1730s and has been rebuilt/renovated several times over the years due to damage sustained from fires and WWI & WWII. It currently can seat 1,150. the ceiling features a mural by French post-impressionist artist Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin. Sadly, it does not have a pipe organ💔
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The Oslo Concert Hall (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/112153328499099768) and The Royal Opera of Versailles (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/115245164377230441) return to #BaroqueSun
Bazylika archikatedralna św. Jana Chrzciciela AKA Archcathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist AKA St. John's Archcathedral, Warsaw is a Brick Gothic-style Catholic Cathedral located in Warsaw, Poland. It’s as establish in the late 14th century and served as the site of a failed assassination of the King of Poland in the 1620s! It has been rebuilt numerous times due to damage from fires, and both WWI & WWII. It features a three manual Eule Pipe Organ complete with 4,301 pipes!
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Bovenkerk, Kampen is a Gothic-style Reform Catholic church located in Kampen, The Netherlands It was established in 1250 and can seat over 1,000 people! It features a massive and exquisite 4 manual Hinsz Pipe Organ from the 1740s, complete with 2,875 pipes and 45 stops!
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Reichsabtei Ottobeuren AKA Ottobeuren Abbey is a Late Baroque-style Benedictine abbey, located in Ottobeuren, Germany. It was established around 764 CE. It’s known both for its size and immaculate Rococo interior. It features a 1766 Riepp DOUBLE Pipe Organ with 100 stops, 5 manuals and around 4,000 pipes😍
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Latvia’s Riga Cathedral (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111995034056253150) and The Netherlands’ St. Martin’s Church (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/113025325627556812) return to #BaroqueSun
Tompkins Square Park is a 10.5 acre public city park located in the East Village area of NYC. It was established in 1834 and is known for its basketball courts and its diverse trees.
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Reservoir Studios is a recording studio and practice space located in NYC. It was first opened in 1979 under the name “Skyline Studios” and everyone from The B-52s to Scritti Politti to Ravi Shankar to Dizzy Gillespie to RuPaul has recorded there.
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The Alberta Rose Theatre is a theater located in Portland, Oregon. It was first opened in 1927 as an independent motion picture theater and non-circuit music hall but as of the late 1970s it’s primarily been a performance space. It can seat approximately 300.
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The Rotterdam Ahoy is a multipurpose convention center located in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. It was first opened in early 1971 and with a capacity of 16,500 it is the largest multi-purpose venue in The Netherlands
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San Micheletto is a Baroque-style deconsecrated Roman Catholic Church located in Lucca, Italy. It was established around the 8th century as a monastery and is now an archive.
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St. Thomas Church Leipzig (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/114452140808644369) and Waalse Kerk (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/113818243996689607) return to #BaroqueSun
Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall is part of The San Francisco Conservatory of Music located in San Francisco, California. A former ballroom, it can now seat an intimate audience of just 348.
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Schloss Hellbrunn AKA Hellbrunn Palace is an early Baroque-era villa located in Salzburg, Austria. It was built in the early 1600s as a summer residence. It’s known for it’s many fountains that all feature some form of “trick” to spray unsuspecting passersby.
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Cité de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/114610839232073688) returns to #BaroqueSun
London’s Wigmore Hall (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/114174721828778252) returns to #BaroqueSun
Lambertikirche AKA St. Lambert's Church is a late Gothic Revival-style Roman Catholic Church located in Münster, Germany. It was built in the 14th century. And features both a 4 manual Schuke Pipe Organ complete with 55 stops and pipes and a smaller Rohlf Pipe Organ that’s used for choral works.
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#BaroqueSun favorite The Frankfurt Radio Symphony (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111836474107242549) returns!
The First Congregational Church of Berkeley is a United Church of Christ church located in Berkeley, California. It was originally established in 1872 but a major fire in 2016 left the church heavily damaged to the point that most of had to be rebuilt. It re-opened in 2024.It features a Bynum Petty Pipe Organ complete with 4,873 pipes- some of which are nearly 34ft tall! It’s one of the largest Pipe Organs in the Bay Area😍
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Markinskirche AKA Church of St. Martin is a Romanesque-style Reformed church located in Basel, Switzerland. Established in 1101 ce, it’s considered to be the oldest parish church in the city. Today it’s mostly open for concerts, art exhibitions and major days of worship. It once featured an early 1970s era, 4 manual Metzler Pipe Organ but that has since been moved to a church in Latvia💔
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Chiesa di San Paolo is located in Poggio Mirteto, Italy. It was built sometime in the 12th century and is the city’s oldest church. It’s known for its fresco murals and excellent acoustics.
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Leipzig’s St. Thomas Church (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/114452140808644369) and The Church of Our Lady Bremen (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111876057915635357) return to #BaroqueSun
Domkerk Utrecht AKA St. Martin’s Cathedral AKA Dom Church is Gothic-style former Roman Catholic (Now a Protestant Church of the Netherlands) cathedral located in Utrecht, The Netherlands. It was established in the 630s BCE and is considered to be the only pre-Reformation era cathedral in The Netherlands. In 2022 it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It features a 50 stop Bätz Pipe Organ from the 1820s complete with 100 of the original pipes😍
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St. Malachy Roman Catholic Church AKA The Actors’ Chapel is a Gothic Revival style Roman Catholic Church located in NYC. it was established ed in 1920. It’s known as “The Actor’s Chapel” due to being located near the Theatre District which led to its early congregations being full of actors and other Theatre District workers. It features a 3 manual Aeolian Skinner Pipe Organ that’s comprised of nearly 2,400 pipes with 44 ranks!😍
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Cleveland, Ohio’s Trinity Cathedral Episcopal Church (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/113540937055797226) and London, England’s St. Anne and St. Agnes Church (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/113540943042596176) return to #BaroqueSun
Freiburger Münster (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/113699528710967959) returns to #BaroqueSun
Oratorio del Caballero de Gracia is a Neoclassical-style Catholic Church located in Madrid, Spain. It was originally established in the late 18th century and underwent a significant rebuilding and reconstruction in the late 1950s. It features an extremely oranate altar AND a late 18th century, 26 stop Van Gruisen Pipe Organ that was originally located in a Catholic Church in The Netherlands but was moved to Oratorio del Caballero de Gracia when that church was demolished in 2003.
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Vienna’s Musikverein (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/112470408786606151) returns to #BaroqueSun
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. It was completed in 1913 and can its three concert halls can seat up to 2,736 combined. Despite the pipe organ being decommissioned💔 The building is known for its beautiful exterior bas relief by Antoine Bourdelle, a dome by Maurice Denis, and paintings by Édouard Vuillard and Jacqueline Marval.
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Alexandra Palace AKA “The Ally Pally” is a performance venue located in London, England that opened in 1873. The Theatre of Alexandra Palace was closed for many years due to disrepair but as of of 2018 it’s back in action and it features a Henry Willis Pipe Organ that is considered to be the finest Pipe Organ in Western Europe. Despite being heavily damaged in a 1982 fire it’s slowly being restored to having 98 stops and 10,000 pipes😍
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St. Davids Cathedral AKA Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi is an Anglican Church located in St. Davids, Wales, which is the smallest city in the the United Kingdom. It was established around 589 CE and was originally a college for clergy in the 1300s but at some point that fell by the wayside. It features a Henry Willis Pipe Organ complete with pipes that are as large as 32ft tall😍
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The Opéra Bastille AKA Bastille Opera House is modern-style Opera house located in Paris France that opened in 1989. It can seat 2,745 and is considered one of the largest opera houses in Western Europe.
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Maassluis’s Groote Kerk (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/113263281539315912) returns to #BaroqueSun
Cincinnati Music Hall is a High Victorian Gothic-style music venue located in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was established in 1878 and it can seat a total of 3,589 people. It is the current home of The Albee Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ complete w/31 ranks of 2,000 pipes😍 Also, it’s rumored to be ~haunted~ b/c it’s built over burial grounds from local Cholera epidemics, an Orphanage & Hospital for the Indigent in addition to being on the stolen lands of the Shawnee, Myaamia & Lenape peoples
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The Martinikerk (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/113025325627556812) returns to #BaroqueSun
Trinity College Chapel a Tudor Gothic-style Anglican chapel is located in Cambridge, England. It was built in the 1550s and has some beautiful white stained glass windows depicting both the disciples and evangelists. It features a 42 rank Metzler Pipe Organ complete with 4,416 pipes housed in the casing of the chapel’s orginal Smith Pipe Organ from the late 1600s! They even have a YouTube playlsit of Pipe Organ concerts (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLba6K3De4poHL1x3eOEC5w2-MdgCen6_h&si=rst3Icozoyamsi7i)
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St. Giles-without-Cripplegate is a Third Pointed Gothic-style Anglican Church located in London, England. It was originally established in the 11th century, was rebuilt in its current style in the late 1300s and since has needed repeated rebuilding due to fires and air raid damage. It features a Harrison & Harrison Pipe Organ complete with 39 stops and over 4,000 pipes pand a 2 manual Chancel Pipe Organ with 15 stops and approximately 1000 pipes 😍
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The Frankfurt Radio Symphony (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/111836474107242549) returns to #BaroqueSun
The Bratislava Reduta is a Neo-Baroque style concert hall located in Bratislava, Slovakia. It was constructed in 1773 as granary but was renovated to its current architectural style in the 1950s and can seat 700. It features 3 manual, 66 register Rieger-Orgelbau Pipe Organ that is considered to be one of the largest Pipe Organs in Slovakia
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The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (https://mastodon.social/@analgesicsleep/112272288382540265) and The Grand Theatre National Opera return to #BaroqueSun
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