Tag: Orchestras

Detroit’s Orchestra Hall, with Scientifically Verified Nearly Flawless Acoustics, Turns 100

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Designed by C Howard Crane, an architect known for “theater palaces,” Detroit’s ornate, spectacular Orchestra Hall turns 100 years old on 23 October. With scientifically verified, nearly flawless acoustics, the venue houses the Detroit Symphony Orchestra—who are embarking on a program that will honor the 1919 season. Orchestra Hall’s shoebox shape favors sound over sight lines and its high ceiling with cloud panels perfect the …

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Temple Contemporary + David Lang’s “Symphony for a Broken Orchestra”

A performance on damaged instruments to benefit public schools, from the acclaimed composer

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In the first week of December at the 23rd Street Armory in Philadelphia, 400 or so instruments recovered from some 1000+ in a musical graveyard united in the hands of hundreds of professionals and students to perform a work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang. Known as the “Symphony for a Broken Orchestra“—there will never be a performance like those two ever again. The epic …

Exploring The Orchestra Now For Free

An organization breathing life into classical music and providing an entry point for new audiences

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Have you ever heard Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 performed by a full live orchestra? This piece, which has long-been one of the most recognizable compositions in the world, was intended to be consumed in this fashion: with the full array of instruments distributing their sound throughout a concert hall. In person, it is a profound experience—and one recently offered by The Orchestra Now (TŌN) at …