Located at Nicolett Mall and 12th Street in Minneapolis, Orchestra Hall is home to the Minnesota Orchestra.
The auditorium seats approximately 4,000, with most seating on the main floor. A fair amount of additional seating is present on the second floor, with only a few seats (and poorer ones at that) on the 3rd and 4th floors.
The stage is unusual due to the large cube motif in the rear wall. The cubes were added for acoustic reasons, but have visual appeal as well.
The lobby area was upgraded in the late 1990s and includes several bars. Expansive windows overlook the street.
The exterior of the building is remarkable for its large, blue ventillation ducts. Their unusual size was chosen to reduce air velocities and hence noise.
orchestra and orchestration, an orchestra is a musical ensemble of mixed instruments based on strings and winds, under the direction of a conductor, employing four classes of instruments: strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion.
the classical orchestra was gradually established through the disuse of the continuo and the acceptance of the clarinet.
OrchestraHall was built for it in 1904 with funds raised by public subscription; the hall is now part of Symphony Center, which was completed in 1997.
The form of the hall is rectangular, which is characteristic of the world's finest symphony hall, such as "The Grosser Musikverinssaal" in Vienna, the "Concertgebouw" in Amsterdam (Netherlands), the "Avery Fisher Hall" in Washington D.C and the "Symphony Hall" in Boston.
The interior of the hall is dominated by convex curved surfaces for both the walls and ceilings.
To compliment this, the hall is adorned with more than 12,000 square feet of tempered glass made in England, the lobby of the hall orients itself toward the East and the former home of the Utah Symphony, the Salt Lake Tabernacle and Temple Square.
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