The world's most famous concert hall, New York City's Carnegie Hall, opened in 1891, proved important as an institution and, by setting a critical precedent for financing in the 1950s, for the future of the performing arts in America....

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street. Built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1890, it is one...

Artists' studios in the two red-brick towers that rise above Carnegie Hall were once home to Marlon Brando and Leonard Bernstein. Marilyn Monroe took acting lessons there, and Lucille Ball had voice coaching.Between the towers, which have sheltered musicians and other artists for more than...

The tenants of studios high above Carnegie Hall were already angry about plans to evict them and gut part of the world famous concert building.But they turned furious when they found out the son-in-law of Carnegie Hall's chairman and major benefactor, Sanford Weill, had been...

Give Anna Netrebko credit for knowing that it's one thing to wow an audience in a fully staged opera, and quite another to hold a crowd at rapt attention in the concert hall.The young Russian has become a superstar with seeming ease at the Metropolitan...

Carnegie Hall plans to renovate its Studio Towers and backstage areas _ but the expansion would require doing away with residences that have been used over the years by artists such as Leonard Bernstein.To accommodate its need for new classrooms, rehearsal spaces, practice and large...