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Perfect home for Orchestra & festivals in Boston

With handsome touches of gold, leather and oak throughout the space, the 2,626-seat Boston Symphony hall is a study in reserved elegance. Being home to the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Pops and adding more value to the hotels in Boston, this Symphony hall has a proud history of 108 years that made it one of the major well known concert halls in the world. It was inaugurated on 15th October 1900 and was the first concert hall designed with acoustical principles in mind. This historic hall has been modeled on the second Gewandhaus concert hall in Leipzig, which was destroyed in World War II, which has given it a 125 long, 61 feet high, and 75 feet wide, rectangular “shoebox” shape. The hall’s leather seats are still original from 1900 and hall seats 2,625 people during Symphony season and 2,371 during the Pops season.

Another feature of its elegance is the 16 Greek and Roman statue replicas which decorate its walls and which have been installed with frequently quoted words, “Boston, the Athens of America,” written by Bostonian William Tudor in the early 19th century. Ten of them are about mythical subjects and six about historical figures. The Symphony hall organ which has been designed by G. Donald Harrison is considered as one of the finest concert hall organs in the world. It was installed in 1949 as a replacement of the hall’s first organ of 1900 which had fallen out of fashion by the 1940s when lighter and clearer tones became preferred.

As mentioned before, one of the major events conducted in this splendid hall can be mentioned as the Boston Symphony Orchestra which has performed throughout Europe, the United States, Japan, Hong Kong and China and it plays an important role in commissioning new works from today’s most reputed composers. In addition its summer season at Tanglewood is well known as one of the world’s most important music festivals, which helps develop the audience of the future through a variety of youth concerts and outreach programs involving the entire Boston community. And this occasion attracts a huge number of people even to the hotels in Boston.

The “Boston Symphony Chamber Players” which was founded in 1964 is made up of 11 of the principals of the BSO, who tour during the Boston Pops season and are frequently joined by other guest artists. More over it makes a considerable contribution for the education of the community. The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s education mission is carried out through various programs that reach about 60,000 students throughout the New England region with association of students and teachers across a wide range of ethnic, economic, and racial groups.

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