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

Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts is a performing arts theater located at Brainerd High School in Brainerd, Minnesota. Opening in summer 2021, it’s a fairly new space that can seat 1,200. Its name reflects the history of the local Ojibwe Tribe word for "big river" or "Mississippi River”.
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Downtown United Presbyterian Church is a neo-Romanesque style Presbyterian Church located in Rochester, New York. It was established in 1970. It features a 39 stop Fisk Opus Pipe Organ complete with 2,625 pipes😍
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Reformierte Kirche St. Peter AKA St. Peter Church of Zürich is a reform Presbyterian church located in Zürich, Switzerland. It was established around 1000 CE. It features a nearly 80ft tall clock tower. Its 3 manual Mühleisen Manufacture Pipe Organ is complete with just shy of 3,000 pipes and is considered to be the most historically significant, baroque-style Pipe Organ in Switzerland.
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The J.E. Broyhill Civic Center is a Modern Brutalist-style convention center located in Lenoir, North Carolina. It was built in 1993 and can seat 1,000.
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Edward M. Pickman Hall is the primary performance space that’s part of the Longy School of Music at Bard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was built in 1970 and can seat 300.
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Wits Linder Auditorium is a concert and cultural venue located at the Education Campus of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was built in the late 1970s can seat 1,060.
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Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church is a Gothic Rivival- style Presbyterian church located in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1873 and hosts one of the largest Presbyterian congregations in The USA. It features 2 Pipe Organs (!): a 59 stop Rieger Pipe Organ with over 4,000 Pipes AND a 3 Manual Petty Madden Pipe Organ with 34 tops and 2,200 Pipes😍
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The Piano Performance Museum is a museum located in Hunter, New York. Its collection features more than 30 extraordinary & rare pianos, pre-pianos and related artifacts.
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