Symphony Hall (Boston)

Symphony Hall ( Boston)

The Symphony Hall is a concert hall in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. It is located at the address 301 Massachusetts Avenue in close proximity to the New England Conservatory. It was designed in 1900 by the architectural firm McKim, Mead, and White for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Wallace Clement Sabine, a then young professor of physics at Harvard University, developed the acoustic concept. In 1999, the concert hall was registered as a National Historic Landmark on the National Register of Historic Places.

History and Architecture

After he ceased due to road and metro new buildings at the end of the 19th century with the Boston Music Hall, the original concert hall of the orchestra available, Symphony Hall was built. To date, the hall is one of the best venues in the world for classical music.

The hall was designed after the model of the Leipzig Gewandhaus, which was destroyed in the Second World War. The design of the interior is cuboid with 61 ft ( 18.6 m) high, 75 ft ( 22.9 m ) wide and 125 ft ( 38.1 m ) in length and was constructed according to models such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Vienna Musikverein.

Statuary

In the upper part of the walls of the concert hall are a total of 16 replicas of Greek and Roman statues representing mythical and historical figures. Specifically, these are:

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