The authority's assets also include the Symphony Hall, the National Exhibition Centre and the International Convention Centre (ICC).
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"While he was waiting in line, he saw a piano and was playing classical music like it was Symphony Hall, " McCarthy said.
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.
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.
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Buchbinder's stop at our studio was just a few hours before his performance of a Beethoven Piano Concerto at Symphony Hall with the Dresden Staatskapelle.
An Associated Press article this week notes that the city of Newark, NJ, staring into a budget abyss, sold 16 city buildings to developers and investors, including the Newark Symphony Hall and police and fire headquarters.
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Within a six-block radius stood War Memorial Opera House, Herbst Theatre, Davies Symphony Hall and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, all venues used by SFJazz during its 30-year rise from upstart weekend festival to standard-bearing year-round jazz nonprofit.
In 1954, Arturo Toscanini conducted his last concert with the NBC Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
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.
Members of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra recently threatened to boycott the concert hall because they claimed the building's acoustics were not doing justice to their music.
Mahler's First Symphony was filmed in Singapore's Esplanade Concert Hall in November.
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.
Glass turned seventy-five on January 31st, and Carnegie Hall marked the occasion by presenting the first American performance of his Ninth Symphony, with the American Composers Orchestra, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.
Peter Frajola, a principal violinist hired by DePriest more than a quarter-century ago, said the symphony took "phenomenal musical journeys" with the conductor, and his influence went beyond the concert hall.
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