Carnegie Hall

British  

/ ˈkɑːnəɡɪ /

noun

1. a famous concert hall in New York (opened 1891); endowed by Andrew Carnegie

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Carnegie Hall Cultural  

1. A concert hall, world-famous for its acoustics, in New York City.

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Carnegie Hall was the home of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra for many years. When the orchestra announced in 1959 that it was moving to a new building, plans were made to tear Carnegie Hall down. Because of the efforts of the violinist Isaac Stern and other artists, however, it has been preserved as a concert hall.

Example Sentences

Alongside his Carnegie Hall concerts, which began in 1943, this LP helped elevate Ellington as a serious composer working at a grand scale.

From The Wall Street Journal

The album’s fourth work, “The Tattooed Bride,” had its premiere at Ellington’s 1948 Carnegie Hall concert.

From The Wall Street Journal

While the album may have sold only in the tens of thousands, it provided what his concerts lacked—permanence and distribution far beyond Carnegie Hall’s 2,800 seats.

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This little club included a lot of musicians, who went on to play “Indiana Jones” in their school ensembles and then joined professional orchestras and couldn’t wait to play “Star Wars” in Disney Hall or Carnegie Hall.

From Los Angeles Times

The first large image you see when entering the first gallery of “Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind,” the massive retrospective of Yoko Ono’s work currently on exhibit at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, is the large reproduction poster for her debut performance at Carnegie Hall, which took place on Friday, November 24th, 1961.

From Salon