Carnegie Hall Timeline of Events

Home / Timelines / Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....

Timeline of Events

1891

5.5.1891

The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.

1893

12.16.1893

Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, ''From The New World'' is given its world première performance at Carnegie Hall.

1943

1.23.1943

Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.