Carnegie Hall

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Address

Seventh Avenue & 57th Street

GPS

40.765117622038, -73.980170364331

BOOK

“Ladies and gentlemen,” he cried. “At the request of Mr. Gatsby we are going to play for you Mr. Vladmir Tostoff’s latest work, which attracted so much attention at Carnegie Hall last May. If you read the papers you know there was a big sensation.”
He smiled with jovial condescension, and added:
“Some sensation!”
Whereupon everybody laughed.
—La pieza se titula —concluyó con voz estentórea— Vladmir Tostoff’s Jazz History of the World.

The Great Gatsby

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Built between 1889 and 1891 and opened in 1891, originally as “Music Hall.” Designed by William Burnet Tuthill and promoted by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, it was created as a shared home for the Oratorio Society of New York and the New York Symphony Society. In the 1920s, the building was still one of the city’s most prestigious concert halls and was still owned by the Carnegie family (until 1925). The complex has 3,671 seats across three auditoriums, with the main one—Stern Auditorium—being the largest. Over the course of its history it has undergone several renovations, including major work in the 1940s and the 1980s.

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