Word: auditoriums
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...trip has been arranged for the clubs: They will start from Boston Monday evening, December 22, at eleven o'clock on the Boston and Albany road. Taking breakfast at Syracuse, dinner at Buffalo, and supper at Detroit, they will reach Chicago on Wednesday morning. They will stay at the Auditorium Hotel. The concert in Chicago will be Thursday evening...
...theatre consists of three main parts: the auditorium, the orchestra, and the stage buildings. The seats for the spectators covered the slope of the hill, in semicircular rows. Aisles divided the auditorium into thirteen wedges and two-thirds of the distance to the top was a semi-circular passageway or "Diazoma." The upper rows of seats were hewn from the stone of the hillside, the lower were of limestone from the Peiraeus. The front row consisted of sixty-seven "thronoi," heavy stone seats with backs, the middle one being used by the chief priest of Dionysus. The orchestra...
...Grand Italian Opera Company began a week's engagement at the Mechanics' Building last night, when Mme. Albani and Sig. Tamagno appeared in Verdi's opera, "Otello." The experiment of converting the huge hall of the Mechanics' Building into an auditorium is not a success; it is impossible for the members of the company to do themselves justice in this hall, and the pleasure of hearing them is on this account seriously marred. Taking this into consideration the production of "tOello" may be said to have been a success. Mme. Albani was at her best, and carried off the honors...
...most successful in the Mad Song from "Hamlet" which displayed the powers of her voice to best advantage. The music of this "Scene," however, is hardly up to the level of Shakespeare. The set of Persian Love Songs by Rubinstein would have had a better effect in a smaller auditorium. Weber's "Freischuetz" overture made a fitting end and climax to the evening's music. Here the orchestra was again effective and vigorous...