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Aeolian Hall was a
concert hall near
Times Square in
Midtown Manhattan,
New York City located on the third floor of 29-33
West 42nd Street (also 34 West 43rd Street, from the other side) across the street from
Bryant Park. The Aeolian Building was built in 1912 for the
Aeolian Company, which manufactured
pianos. Located on the site of the former Latting Tower, which during the
19th century was a popular
observatory, the 18-story building included the 1,100-seat Aeolian Hall. The
New York Symphony Society performed concerts in both Aeolian and
Carnegie Hall, but moved in 1924 to the new
Mecca Auditorium on
55th Street.
Aeolian Hall also featured concerts by leading musical figures such as
Sergei Rachmaninoff,
Ferruccio Busoni and
Ignacy Jan Paderewski, as well as
Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra. The hall is most famous for a concert given by Whiteman's orchestra on
February 12,
1924 titled "An Experiment in Modern Music". Intended to be an educational demonstration on how far American music had progressed in recent decades and how
Jazz could be performed in the concert hall, the concert included a suite by
Victor Herbert and closed with the
Pomp and Circumstance marches by
Edward Elgar. The concert is remembered, however, for the penultimate piece, the
world premiere of
George Gershwin's
Rhapsody in Blue with the composer at the piano,
orchestrated by Whiteman's arranger
Ferde Grofe. This concert is today considered a defining event in the
Jazz Age and the cultural history of
New York City.
In the summer of that year, however, the Aeolian Company sold the building to Schulte Cigar Stores Company for over $5 million, and it hasn't been used as a concert hall since. It still hosted concerts by the International Composers Guild up to January 1926, at least, when the appearance of Black Broadway performer Florence Mills, singing jazz-based pieces by William Grant Still, caused a minor sensation. Today it houses the
State University of New York's State College of Optometry.
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