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    Read about the young conductor who convinced one of the world’s richest men to build a music hall in an undeveloped section of upper Manhattan, the performers who brought Carnegie Hall to prominence, and the crisis that helped shape Carnegie Hall into the dynamic non-profit music organization it is today. If you’re a researcher, take a look at the list of materials available in the Carnegie Hall Archives.

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    May 16, 2012
    READ | PHOTOS: Carnegie Hall has a long history of presenting unconventional ensembles, including—on this day in 1935—the International Marimba Symphony Orchestra which, itself, was just one of several examples of the marimba taking center stage at the Hall.
    May 2, 2012
    READ | PHOTOS: Jazz—in its earliest form—was first heard at Carnegie Hall 100 years ago today on May 2, 1912, when James Reese Europe and his Clef Club Orchestra presented a "Concert of Negro Music" to benefit the Music School Settlement. 
    Apr 22, 2012
    READ | PHOTOS: Concluding our series marking the centenary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, we look at the Christian Conservation Congress of the Men and Religion Forward Movement meeting of April 22, 1912—100 years ago today. The date became a memorial for one of the originally scheduled speakers: English journalist and good friend of Andrew Carnegie, William Thomas Stead.
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