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Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall opened in the Mount Royal cultural district in 1982 as the new home of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The project was initiated by then-BSO president Joseph Meyerhoff, who donated $10 million. The city pitched in $2.5 million, and the state contributed $10.5 million for the construction. The opening day performance included pianist Leon Fleisher's return to two-handed performance. The circular, 2,443-seat hall is praised for both its looks and acoustics. It was constructed without flat walls or 90-degree angles, creating an ideal concert-going experience with unobstructed views. It is also one of the few concert halls that has box seats over the stage. In 19...
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall opened in the Mount Royal cultural district in 1982 as the new home of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The project was initiated by then-BSO president Joseph Meyerhoff, who donated $10 million. The city pitched in $2.5 million, and the state contributed $10.5 million for the construction. The opening day performance included pianist Leon Fleisher's return to two-handed performance. The circular, 2,443-seat hall is praised for both its looks and acoustics. It was constructed without flat walls or 90-degree angles, creating an ideal concert-going experience with unobstructed views. It is also one of the few concert halls that has box seats over the stage. In 1997, five summers of renovations began, including a three-year acoustic readjustment. Improvements included installation of risers on stage, sound diffusers, a modern sound system and a new acoustic canopy. In addition to the BSO, touring acts such as Jerry Seinfeld, the Indigo Girls, Harry Connick Jr. and Aretha Franklin, as well as local groups, have performed at the hall.
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BSO to bring the piercing strings of 'Psycho' to life this weekend
Taking a shower has never felt truly safe ever since Janet Leigh stepped under the spray in the bathroom of nondescript Cabin 1 at the Bates Motel, during the most famous scene of Alfred Hitchcock's stylish horror film from 1960, Psycho.
It's chilling...Tags: Horror (genre), Popular Music, Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Hitchcock, Lincoln Center
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Meyerhoff Foundation should focus on schools
Here's a preview of an editorial we're working on. Let us know what you think, either by using the comment tool below or by sending an e-mail to talkback@baltimoresun.com We'll print the best comments alongside the editorial. The Meyerhoff Foundation has... -
A generous gift
For three generations, Baltimore's Meyerhoff family has enriched the cultural and civic life of this city through innumerable philanthropic gifts to its schools, hospitals, museums, parks, libraries and the magnificent symphony orchestra hall that bears...Tags: Public Schools, National Aquarium Baltimore, Family, Maryland Science Center, Baltimore Museum of Art
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BSO takes on the music of 'Final Fantasy'
There is a realm where Light Warriors roam, not to mention the likes of Lukahn, Kraken and Tiamat, a world with places called Gurgu Volcano and Melmond. In this strange and eventual universe can be experienced something known as Final Fantasy-- assuming...Tags: Richard Wagner, Classical Music, Japan, Facebook, United States
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Meyerhoff funds to shore up middle class
The Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds, a Baltimore-based philanthropic organization that for years aided high-profile causes in Israel and cultural institutions in the United States, has turned its focus to a problem closer to home:...Tags: Patterson Park, National Government, Government, Children, People
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Edward D. Burger
Edward D. Burger, whose engineering career at a prominent Baltimore construction company spanned projects from the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall to the Baltimore Convention Center, died Thursday at his home in Baldwin from mesothelioma. He was 78. Mr....Tags: Randallstown, Colleges and Universities, Foods and Beverages, Mount Washington, Ocala
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Hilary Hahn is classically cool
A comment posted by a viewer on one of violinist Hilary Hahn's many YouTube videos sums up her appeal neatly: "You're just too cool, Hilary :)"
The stellar 29-year-old fiddler, still based in Baltimore, where she grew up and started her musical training,...Tags: Classical Music, Twitter, Inc., Internet, Popular Music, YouTube
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Alsop's new contract is reason to be upbeat
It has not been the happiest of music seasons in Baltimore, not with the death of a once-proud opera company and cutbacks or postponements by other organizations struggling with the economic downturn. So the news late last week from the Baltimore Symphony...Tags: Leonard Bernstein, Classical Music, Mount Vernon, Contracts, Gustav Mahler
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Alsop rock-solid, Hahn shows bravura in violin concerto
Shortly after signing a new five-year contract that will keep her in the post of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra music director until 2015, Marin Alsop led the ensemble in a hefty program Thursday night that included the East Coast premiere of Jennifer...Tags: Classical Music, Marin Alsop, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
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That's a wrap for the BSO
With a coming-full-circle flourish, the Baltimore Symphony is putting the grand in the grand finale of its 2008-2009 season. Way back in September, music director Marin Alsop started things off with the Immolation Scene from Wagner's Gotterdammerung,...Tags: Classical Music, Music Theater, Marin Alsop
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BSO violinist takes intense approach
Jonathan Carney puts his whole body into each phrase of music, making it impossible to miss him when he's playing violin from the concertmaster's chair in the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Even if you couldn't see him, you'd probably know he was there,...Tags: Classical Music, Colleges and Universities, Music Theater, Marin Alsop, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
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BSO concert goes American with vigor
Ideally, concertgoers in this country would know and love at least two big, hearty all-American symphonies - I'd vote for No. 2 by Charles Ives and No. 3 by Aaron Copland - as deeply as they embrace European classics. But that's not likely to happen if...Tags: Classical Music, Aaron Copland, Marin Alsop, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Charles Ives
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