1889/06/00 |
Dankmar Adler |
Architect |
Excavation begins on Andrew Carnegie's Music Hall. The cost of the land and construction will total $1 million. |
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1889/06/00 |
William Burnett Tuthill |
Architect |
Excavation begins on Andrew Carnegie's Music Hall. The cost of the land and construction will total $1 million. |
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1890/05/13 |
Andrew Carnegie |
Owner |
Mrs Carnegie lays the cornerstone of Andrew Carnegie's Music Hall with a trowel that is later inscribed and plated in silver by Tiffany and Co. |
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1891/05/05 |
Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky |
Conductor |
Tchaikovsky conducts a new composition, Marche Solennelle, at the Opening Night of the Music Hall. Actually, it was his Coronation March for Tsar Alexander III. He assumed the American audience would not know the difference, but they recognized it. |
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1891/05/07 |
Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky |
Conductor |
Tchaikovsky conducts his Suite No 3 during the Music Hall's Opening Festival. The festival lasted 5 days with tickets ranging in price from $1 to $2. |
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1896/00/00 |
Booker T Washington |
Speaker |
Booker T Washington speaks at Carnegie Hall. He will make 16 more appearance by 1915. |
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1896/02/13 |
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25-year-old soprano Sissieretta Jones becomes the first African American artist to perform in Carnegie Hall's main auditorium. Jones was joined by the Fisk Jubilee Singers. |
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1906/01/23 |
John D Rockefeller |
Audience member |
Booker T Washington and others including Mark Twain, Joseph H Choate, and Robert Curtis Ogden lecture at Carnegie Hall in honor of Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee. |
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Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee |
1906/01/23 |
Arabella Huntington |
Audience Member |
Booker T Washington and others including Mark Twain, Joseph H Choate, and Robert Curtis Ogden lecture at Carnegie Hall in honor of Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee. |
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Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee |
1906/01/23 |
Joseph Hodges Choate |
Speaker |
Booker T Washington and others including Mark Twain, Joseph H Choate, and Robert Curtis Ogden lecture at Carnegie Hall in honor of Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee. |
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Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee |
1906/01/23 |
Morris Ketchum Jesup |
Audience Member |
Booker T Washington and others including Mark Twain, Joseph H Choate, and Robert Curtis Ogden lecture at Carnegie Hall in honor of Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee. |
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Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee |
1906/01/23 |
Booker T Washington |
Speaker |
Booker T Washington and others including Mark Twain, Joseph H Choate, and Robert Curtis Ogden lecture at Carnegie Hall in honor of Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee. |
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Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee |
1906/01/23 |
Clarence Hungerford Mackay |
Audience Member |
Booker T Washington and others including Mark Twain, Joseph H Choate, and Robert Curtis Ogden lecture at Carnegie Hall in honor of Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee. |
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Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee |
1906/01/23 |
Mark Twain |
Speaker |
Booker T Washington and others including Mark Twain, Joseph H Choate, and Robert Curtis Ogden lecture at Carnegie Hall in honor of Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee. |
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Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee |
1906/01/23 |
Henry Villard |
Audience Member |
Booker T Washington and others including Mark Twain, Joseph H Choate, and Robert Curtis Ogden lecture at Carnegie Hall in honor of Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee. |
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Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee |
1906/01/23 |
George Foster Peabody |
Audience Member |
Booker T Washington and others including Mark Twain, Joseph H Choate, and Robert Curtis Ogden lecture at Carnegie Hall in honor of Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee. |
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Tuskegee Institute's Silver Jubilee |
1906/04/19 |
Frederick Dent Grant |
Host |
Mark Twain gives a "Farewell" lecture at Carnegie Hall for the benefit of the Robert Fulton Memorial Association. Seats cost $1.50, $1.00 and $.50. He begins the lecture with a plea for donations for the citizens of San Francisco. |
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Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake |
1906/04/19 |
Mark Twain |
Speaker |
Mark Twain gives a "Farewell" lecture at Carnegie Hall for the benefit of the Robert Fulton Memorial Association. Seats cost $1.50, $1.00 and $.50. He begins the lecture with a plea for donations for the citizens of San Francisco. |
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Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake |
1912/05/02 |
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James Reese Europe and his Clef Club Orchestra present a Concert of Negro Music (Jazz in its earliest form) at Carnegie Hall. The New York Sun noted the integration of the audience, which was large and thoroughly well mixed, but united in its applause. |
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1917/10/27 |
Jascha Heifetz |
Musician |
Violinist Jascha Heifetz makes his American debut at Carnegie Hall. |
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1920/00/00 |
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Contralto Marian Anderson makes her first performance at the Carnegie Hall. She will go on to appear more than 50 times. |
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1923/03/27 |
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Civil rights leader Marcus Garvey speaks at a "Concert and Meeting" at Carnegie Hall. Speaking to audiences five times between 1919 and 1924, four of these events were meetings of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. |
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1924/02/05 |
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Tenor Roland Hayes becomes the first Black American artist to give a full-length recital at Carnegie Hall. Hayes will make 40 performances over almost five decades. |
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1927/11/11 |
Alvin Cullum York |
Vocation |
On Armistice Day, Alvin York speaks to a packed audience at Carnegie Hall about the importance of his work and the benighted souls who stand in his way, comparing the Fentress county elite to a pair of mules working against each other. |
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1928/04/27 |
W C Handy |
Performer |
W C Handy presents Fats Waller playing the piano and organ. |
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1928/04/27 |
Fats Waller |
Performer |
W C Handy presents Fats Waller playing the piano and organ. |
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1928/04/27 |
W C Handy |
Musician |
W C Handy, the cornetist and composer often called the Father of the Blues, brings his orchestra and Jubilee Singers to Carnegie Hall for a concert of jazz, plantation songs and concert music. |
St Louis Blues |
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1928/12/13 |
Walter J Damrosch |
Conductor |
Gershwin premieres "An American in Paris" at Carnegie Hall, with Damrosch conducting the New York Philharmonic. |
An American in Paris |
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1928/12/13 |
George Gershwin |
Composer |
Gershwin premieres "An American in Paris" at Carnegie Hall, with Damrosch conducting the New York Philharmonic. |
An American in Paris |
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1929/11/05 |
Paul Robeson |
Performer |
Baritone Paul Robeson makes his Carnegie Hall debut, his first of a dozen appearances at the Hall that span nearly three decades. |
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1935/08/00 |
DuBose Heyward |
Lyricist |
"Porgy and Bess" premieres during a private show at Carnegie Hall with a running time of about 3 and a half hours. |
Porgy and Bess (Opera) |
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1935/08/00 |
Dorothy Heyward |
Lyricist |
"Porgy and Bess" premieres during a private show at Carnegie Hall with a running time of about 3 and a half hours. |
Porgy and Bess (Opera) |
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1935/08/00 |
George Gershwin |
Music |
"Porgy and Bess" premieres during a private show at Carnegie Hall with a running time of about 3 and a half hours. |
Porgy and Bess (Opera) |
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1938/01/16 |
Benny Goodman |
Performer |
Benny Goodman brings swing music to Carnegie Hall. Goodman's trio was one of the first racially integrated groups to perform regularly in public venues. |
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1942/01/14 |
Fats Waller |
Performer |
Fats Waller with trumpeter Oran "Hot Lips" Page headlines a concert at Carnegie Hall. |
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1943/01/23 |
Duke Ellington |
Performer |
Duke Ellington makes his debut at the hall. His new approach to jazz composition leads to a series of annual Carnegie Hall concerts. |
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1947/09/29 |
Ella Fitzgerald |
Performer |
Before a sold-out crowd, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald bring bebop to Carnegie Hall for the first time. |
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1947/09/29 |
Dizzy Gillespie |
Musician |
Charlie Parker joins Dizzy Gillespie for a reunion of their groundbreaking quintet. The frenetic energy of bebop was a radical departure from swing and sparked open hostility in some musical circles. |
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1947/09/29 |
Dizzy Gillespie |
Performer |
Before a sold-out crowd, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald bring bebop to Carnegie Hall for the first time. |
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1948/03/27 |
Billie Holiday |
Performer |
Billie Holiday, recently released from prison on a drug charge only days earlier, performs at Carnegie Hallher first public performance in nearly a year. |
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1950/10/01 |
Mahalia Jackson |
Performer |
Gospel singer and civil rights advocate Mahalia Jackson makes her Carnegie Hall debut. |
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1952/11/14 |
Duke Ellington |
Performer |
Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Ahmad Jamal play two shows (8:15pm and 11:45pm) at Carnegie Hall. |
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1952/11/14 |
Billie Holiday |
Performer |
Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Ahmad Jamal play two shows (8:15pm and 11:45pm) at Carnegie Hall. |
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1952/11/14 |
Ahmad Jamal |
Performer |
Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Ahmad Jamal play two shows (8:15pm and 11:45pm) at Carnegie Hall. |
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1952/11/14 |
Dizzy Gillespie |
Performer |
Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Ahmad Jamal play two shows (8:15pm and 11:45pm) at Carnegie Hall. |
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1955/05/06 |
Bill Haley and His Comets |
Performers |
Bill Haley and his Comets play in a variety benefit concert. |
(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock |
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1955/10/29 |
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At midnight, Carnegie Hall's first full length rock 'n' roll concert features Earl Gaines with "It's Love Baby (24 Hours a Day)," Etta James singing "Wallflower," Bo Diddley performing "Diddley Daddy" and Big Joe Turner with "Shake, Rattle and Roll." |
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1957/11/29 |
Ray Charles |
Performer |
A midnight jazz concert features a legendary collaboration between pianist Thelonious Monk and tenor saxophonist John Coltrane and performances by Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, Chet Baker and Sonny Rollins. |
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1957/11/29 |
Chet Baker |
Performer |
A midnight jazz concert features a legendary collaboration between pianist Thelonious Monk and tenor saxophonist John Coltrane and performances by Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, Chet Baker and Sonny Rollins. |
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1957/11/29 |
John Coltrane |
Performer |
A midnight jazz concert features a legendary collaboration between pianist Thelonious Monk and tenor saxophonist John Coltrane and performances by Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, Chet Baker and Sonny Rollins. |
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1957/11/29 |
Dizzy Gillespie |
Performer |
A midnight jazz concert features a legendary collaboration between pianist Thelonious Monk and tenor saxophonist John Coltrane and performances by Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, Chet Baker and Sonny Rollins. |
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1957/11/29 |
Billie Holiday |
Performer |
A midnight jazz concert features a legendary collaboration between pianist Thelonious Monk and tenor saxophonist John Coltrane and performances by Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, Chet Baker and Sonny Rollins. |
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1960/05/08 |
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Civil rights activist and folk-music legend Odetta is recorded by Vanguard Records at Carnegie Hall. She perfomed 19 times at the hall before her death in 2008. |
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1961/04/23 |
Judy Garland |
Performer |
Judy Garland sings at Carnegie Hall |
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Judy Garland Plays Carnegie Hall |
1964/02/12 |
The Beatles |
Performers |
The Beatles play Carnegie Hall in front of two thousand fans. |
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Beatlemania Arrives in the US |
1965/02/28 |
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Soprano Leontyne Price makes her Carnegie Hall recital. Price gave the first of her 45 Carnegie Hall performances in 1954 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. |
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1968/02/23 |
Martin Luther King Jr |
Speaker |
In his last major public address, Dr Martin Luther King Jr is the keynote speaker at a Carnegie Hall benefit to mark the 100th birthday of W E B DuBois. |
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1982/04/27 |
John Cheever |
Life |
John Cheever receives the National Medal for Literature at Carnegie Hall. Colleagues are shocked by Cheever's ravaged appearance after months of cancer treatment. |
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1993/02/26 |
Gene Pitney |
Performer |
Gene Pitney plays Carnegie Hall in New York City. |
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1998/07/01 |
Buena Vista Social Club |
Performers |
The Buena Vista Social Club featuring Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzalez, Compay Segundo and Omara Portuondo perform at Carnegie Hall. Portions of the concert will be incorporated into Wim Wenders' also called "Buena Vista Social Club". |
Chan Chan |
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