Carnegie Hall

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noun

a famous concert hall in New York (opened 1891); endowed by Andrew Carnegie

Carnegie Hall

A concert hall, world-famous for its acoustics, in New York City.

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Carnegie Hall was the home of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra for many years. When the orchestra announced in 1959 that it was moving to a new building, plans were made to tear Carnegie Hall down. Because of the efforts of the violinist Isaac Stern and other artists, however, it has been preserved as a concert hall.

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The fierce foursome — which also includes Allison Russell and Leyla McCalla — toured with their songs before the pandemic, and later brought their banjos to Carnegie Hall in 2022.

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Bernstein lived in New York, walking distance from Carnegie Hall and, when it was built, Lincoln Center.

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Tench is one of those folks, too, despite also being the guy that Bob Dylan likes to call when he doesn’t feel like playing piano, or who gets asked to step in on piano and organ when it’s time to pay tribute to The Band, or more recently, as part of the house band for the Patti Smith tribute concert at Carnegie Hall in March, getting namechecked by Bruce Springsteen — “Hit it, Benmont!” — at the start of “Because the Night.”

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We played Carnegie Hall with just me, John and Ray.

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At moments her Rose sounds as if Carnegie Hall was her bygone dream for herself, not the vaudeville circuit.

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