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Calvin Auditory. The Calvin Auditory. The Calvin Auditorium or Calvin Auditory ( French: Auditoire de Calvin ), originally the Notre-Dame-la-Neuve Chapel, is a chapel in Geneva, Switzerland, which played a significant role in the Protestant Reformation. It is associated with John Calvin, Theodore Beza and John Knox .
Life and career. William Paris Chambers was born in Newport, Pennsylvania but spent most of his early years in Newville, Pennsylvania. It was in Newville that he studied music, quickly becoming a proficient performer on the cornet, which he began to study around age thirteen. By the age of eighteen he was conducting the Keystone Cornet Band.
Barton gave the hall to the City of Geneva in 1901. [2] The Victoria Hall was home to a wind band, the Harmonie nautique, before the founding of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande by Ernest Ansermet in 1918, and remained so until 1976 when Harmonie nautique ceased operating. During this period it was also used as a studio for recordings.
December 31, 1974. South Main Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Geneva in Ontario County, New York. The district contains 142 contributing properties including 140 contributing buildings, as well as Pultney Park and the original quadrangle of the Hobart College campus. Over half of the structures date from 1825 ...
A conference room in the Palace of Nations. The Palace of Nations (French: Palais des Nations, pronounced [palɛ de nɑsjɔ̃]) is the home of the United Nations Office at Geneva, located in Geneva, Switzerland. It was built between 1929 and 1938 [ 1 ] to serve as the headquarters of the League of Nations. It has served as the home of the ...
Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland ( Emeritus) Gaspard Mermillod (22 September 1824 – 23 February 1892) was a Swiss Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Despite a lengthy investiture conflict with the Calvinist Canton of Geneva, he served as Bishop of Lausanne and Geneva from 1883 to 1891, having previously served as Titular Bishop of Hebron.
Victoria Hall. Principal conductor. Jonathan Nott. Website. Official website. The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR [1]) is a Swiss symphony orchestra, based in Geneva at the Victoria Hall. In addition to symphony concerts, the OSR performs as the opera orchestra in productions at the Grand Théâtre de Genève.
Geneva was an Allobrogian border town, fortified against the Helvetii tribe, [ 30 ] when the Roman Republic took it in 121 BC. It became Christian under the Late Roman Empire, and acquired its first bishop in the 5th century, having been connected to the Bishopric of Vienne in the 4th.