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At the heart of Schermerhorn Symphony Center is the 30,000 square feet (2,800 m 2), 1,844-seat Laura Turner Concert Hall, which is home to the Nashville Symphony. The hall is of the shoebox style . It features natural lighting, which streams in through 30 soundproof, double-paned clerestory windows.
Kenneth Dewitt Schermerhorn (/ ˈ s k ɜːr m ər h ɔːr n / SKUR-mər-horn; November 20, 1929 – April 18, 2005) was an American composer and orchestra conductor. He was the music director of the Nashville Symphony from 1983 to 2005.
In 1945, World War II veteran and Nashville native Walter Sharp returned home from the war intent on establishing a new symphony for Middle Tennessee. [1] With the assistance of a small number of fellow music lovers, he convinced community leaders of this need and the Nashville Symphony was founded.
The Martha Rivers Ingram Center for the Performing Arts. Ingram was a co-founder of the Schermerhorn Symphony Center which opened in 2005. [4] [5] [6] She formerly served as Chairman of the Board of Trust of Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
University of Pretoria Symphony Orchestra University of South Africa: Dr. Miriam Makeba Concert Hall [5] 270 Enoch Sontonga Hall (formerly Sunnyside Campus Hall) 1909 410 ZK Matthews Great Hall [6] 970 Stellenbosch: University of Stellenbosch: Endler Hall 1978 556 University of Stellenbosch Symphony Orchestra Fismer Hall 1978 200
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is the world's largest repository of country music artifacts. Early in the 1960s, as the Country Music Association's (CMA) campaign to publicize country music was accelerating, CMA leaders determined that a new organization was needed to operate a country music museum and related activities beyond CMA's scope as simply a trade organization.
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The Starwood Amphitheatre was the primary outdoor music venue in the Nashville, Tennessee area from 1986 to 2006. It was owned by Live Nation and had a capacity of 17,137. It had previously been owned by SFX Entertainment and Clear Channel Worldwide, both predecessors of Live Nation Entertainment.