 Symphony Center of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Symphony Center is a music complex in Chicago, Illinois and is home to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Symphony Center includes Orchestra Hall, which dates from 1904 and still has "Theodore Thomas Orchestra Hall" inscribed in its façade; Buntrock Hall, a rehearsal and performance space; a public multi-story rotunda; Rhapsoday restaurant; and administrative offices. In June 1993, plans to significantly renovate and expand Orchestra Hall were approved and the $110 million project resulting in Symphony Center was completed from 1995 to 1997. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, based in Chicago, Illinois, is one of the leading orchestras in the world. ...
1904 (MCMIV) is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1993 (MCMXCIII in Roman) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
1995 (MCMXCV in Roman) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1997 (MCMXCVII in Roman) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Orchestra Hall was built in 1904. It was designed by renowned Chicago architect D.H. Burnham & Company. Construction began on May 1, 1904 and the first concert was held on December 14, 1904. The names Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Wagner are inscribed above windows and balconies in the ballroom. In music, the BACH motif is the sequence of notes B flat, A, C, B natural. ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791) was one of the most significant and influential of all composers of Western classical music. ...
Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptized December 17, 1770 – March 26, 1827) was a German composer of Classical music, the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras. ...
For the crater on the moon, see Schubert (crater) Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (January 31, 1797 – November 19, 1828), was an Austrian composer. ...
Wagner may refer to more than one place in the United States: Wagner, South Dakota Wagner, Wisconsin Wagner may refer to more than one person: Richard Wagner, German composer Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Richard Wagner Heinrich Leopold Wagner, dramatist and author John Peter Honus Wagner...
Orchestra Hall was also used as a movie theater during the 1910s, to maintain income during the summer months, when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra would be playing at the Ravinia Festival. Lectures and other programs were held at Orchestra Hall in the 1920s and 1930s, with speakers including Harry Houdini, Richard E. Byrd, Amelia Earhart, Bertrand Russell and Orson Welles. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, based in Chicago, Illinois, is one of the leading orchestras in the world. ...
The Ravinia Festival is the summer music program offered at Ravinia Park in Highland Park, Illinois. ...
Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was born as Ehrich Weisz and was one of the most famous magicians, escapologists, and stunt performers of all time as well as an investigator of spiritualists. ...
Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, USN (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was a pioneering American polar explorer and famous aviator. ...
Amelia Earhart Amelia Mary Earhart (24 July 1897 – missing from 2 July 1937), daughter of Edwin and Amy Earhart, was an American aviator and noted early female pilot who mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during a circumnavigational flight in 1937. ...
The Right Honourable Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was an influential British logician, philosopher, and mathematician, working mostly in the 20th century. ...
Orson Welles on the set of Citizen Kane. ...
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