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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall
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About Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue at 881 Seventh Avenue, between 56th and 57th Streets, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Designed by architect William Burnet Tuthill and built by its namesake, industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, the venue is one of the most prestigious in the world for both classical music and popular music. Carnegie Hall has its own artistic programming, development, and marketing departments and presents about 250 performances each season. It is also rented out to performing groups, though it has not had a resident company since the New York Philharmonic moved to Lincoln Center in 1962.

On the show โ€” 4 mentions total

When he played Carnegie Hall for the first time, he told a reporter he had lost contact with his parents and he didn't know them anymore. They were in the audience at the gig.

from 566: No Such Thing As Bob Dylan on Mars, 2025-01-16 at 00:18:47 ยท read transcript

Other times Carnegie Hall came up

  1. How to Win Friends and Influence People, you know, everyone told that, everyone knows the phrase. It was the first sort of modern-day genre self-help book by Dale Carnegie, who was actually born Dale Carnegie. He gave a speech once in Carnegie Hall and thought, hey, Andrew Carnegie was successful. I'll name myself after him instead and change the spelling of his name. It's not much of a change.

    No Such Thing As A Sweater For Einstein, 2024-11-14 ยท listen

  2. What's so weird about that is that the person who wrote, what I think is probably the most famous self-help book of all time, How to Win Friends and Influence People, everyone told that, everyone knows the phrase. It was the first sort of modern day genre self-help book by Dale Carnegie, who was actually born Dale Carnegie. He gave a speech once in Carnegie Hall and thought, hey, Andrew Carnegie was successful. I'll name myself after him instead and change the spelling of his name.

    557: No Such Thing As A Sweater For Einstein, 2024-11-14 ยท listen

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