SYMPHONY HALL

1893 urban expansion caused the Boston Symphony to relocate from their Boston Music Hall home.  The orchestra’s opened the newly constructed Symphony Hall October, 1900.  Symphony Hall is recognized as one of world’s top concert and the finest in America.  The auditorium has been cited as one of the best sounding classical concert venues in the world.  Beethoven is the only musicians name inscribed over the stage, as he was the only musician's the original directors could agree on.  Shoebox shaped, the hall is built of brick, plaster and steel.  Side balconies are shallow in depth and the low height ceiling is so designed not to trap any sound.  Detailed niches in the auditorium’s woodworking were done for beauty and to help distribute sound throughout the hall.  A collection of mythical Roman and Greek statues adorn the hall representing: art, literature and music.  Symphony Hall’s Aeolian Skinner organ is considered one of the finest concert hall organs in the world.