Fifty seventh Street, the Italianate brick front, then the hall: five curved tiers in cream and gold around the stage, the works in the boxes, practice, practice, practice.
Carnegie Hall opened in May 1891, paid for by Andrew Carnegie and designed by William Burnet Tuthill, with Tchaikovsky conducting on opening night. Isaac Stern led the campaign that saved it from demolition in 1960, and the city bought the building. It became a National Historic Landmark in 1962, and its main hall now carries Stern's name.
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The brown brick and terracotta facade with its arched windows, the cream and gold horseshoe auditorium with five levels curving to the stage, the red seats, the plain proscenium and the organ grille, the dressing room corridor. Mood: concert black. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.