They have played at the Adrian Boult Hall and Symphony Hall in Birmingham, and at the premier of the film The Hobbit in the city.

BBC: Dion Dublin plays own Dube drum with People's Orchestra

Also planned are the redesign and creation of many public spaces as well as a number of buildings currently in development, like the Maison des Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal, and the concert hall for the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, scheduled to open in September.

BBC: The Quartier des Spectacles, Montreal's Broadway

In 1954, Arturo Toscanini conducted his last concert with the NBC Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

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He is in charge of building an orchestra worthy of the city's new symphony hall and performing arts center, set to open in 2009.

NPR: Symphony Conductor Reflects on Music in the Middle

In the spring of 1999, when Lang was sixteen, he went to New York and in a single afternoon auditioned for the Cleveland Orchestra, at Carnegie Hall, and for a manager of the Chicago Symphony.

NEWYORKER: The Olympian