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Maurice Abravanel Hall

Abravanel Hall is home to the Utah Symphony Orchestra and part of the Salt Lake County Center for the Arts. Adjacent to Temple Square and the Salt Palace on South Temple Street this architectural masterpiece has become a landmark. Besides symphony performances, the hall also hosts numerous concerts and special events.

Abravanel Hall was created specifically to provide an environment of acoustical excellence by Dr. Cyril M. Harris, who was the acoustical consultant for the remodeled Avery Fisher Hall in New York City, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, all of witch are known for their acoustical excellence. Abravanel Hall, formerly known as Symphony Hall, was so named in May 1993 to the beloved Maestro Maurice Abravanel, conductor of the Utah Symphony and advocate for all the arts in Utah.

Abravanel Hall is actually a concrete building within a brick building. Inside these two outer shells stands the beautiful concert hall. Designed strictly as a concert hall, the stage has no proscenium, rather, it is an extension of the audience. The form of the hall is rectangular, which is characteristic of the world's finest symphony halls, such as "The Grosser Musikverinssaal" in Vienna, the "Concertgebouw" in Amsterdam (Netherlands), the "Avery Fisher Hall" in Washington D.C and the "Symphony Hall" in Boston.

To reach the hall you must pass through sound lock corridors which are designed to prevent the confusion and noise from the lobby from spilling into the concert hall. The interior of the hall is dominated by convex curved surfaces for both the walls and ceilings. Not only these designs, but also the basic materials were carefully chosen by Dr. Harris and the architects for acoustical purposes. Suspended from the ceiling are six 16 x 16 foot brass chandeliers with 18,000 hand cut beads and prisms of Bohemian crystals imported from Austria and Czechoslovakia.

The four story lobby is crowned with a ceiling of white oak and solid brass. To compliment this, the hall is adorned with more than 12,000 square feet of tempered glass made in England, the lobby of the hall orients itself toward the East and the former home of the Utah Symphony, the Salt Lake Tabernacle and Temple Square.

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  Maurice Abravanel Hall

  123 West South Temple
  Salt Lake City, UT 84101

  Phone: (801)355-2787

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  07/09/08	Summer Concerts: March with the Utah Symphony
  07/11/08- 07/12/08	Days of '47 Pops Concert
  08/20/08	Summer Concerts: Utah Symphony Benefits The Road Home
  09/12/08- 09/13/08	Ode to Joy
  09/26/08- 09/27/08	Judy Garland with the Utah Symphony
  09/30/08	Salute to Youth
  10/03/08	LeAnn Rimes
  10/10/08- 10/11/08	Land of the Midnight Music
  10/17/08- 10/18/08	Marvin Hamlisch with the Utah Symphony
  10/20/08	David Sedaris
  10/20/08	Here Comes Santa Claus
  10/25/08	Halloween High-Jinks
  10/31/08- 11/01/08	Bruckner's 4th - A Big Brass Show
  11/07/08- 11/08/08	Elgar's Cello Concerto
  11/14/08- 11/15/08	An Evening of Film Music
  11/21/08- 11/22/08	Shostakovich's Response
  12/05/08- 12/06/08	Mozart's Requiem
  12/19/08- 12/20/08	Christmas Spirituals
  01/09/09- 01/10/09	Mozart's Grand Piano Concerto
  01/15/09	The Four Seasons
  01/30/09- 01/31/09	Schubert's Unfinished
  02/06/09- 02/07/09	The Inextinguishable
  02/10/09	Cho's Anatomy
  02/13/09- 02/14/09	King's Singers with the Utah Symphony
  02/20/09- 02/21/09	Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto
  02/27/09- 02/28/09	Keith & Olga
  03/06/09- 03/07/09	An Evening in Vienna
  03/20/09- 03/21/09	Evening at the Pops
  03/21/09	Cowboy Jamboree
  03/27/09- 03/28/09	An Evening of Adventure with Keith & Viviane
  04/10/09- 04/11/09	A Hero's Life
  04/24/09- 04/25/09	Keith Concludes his Mahler Tradition
  05/01/09- 05/02/09	Bravo Broadway
  05/08/09- 05/09/09	Tchaik's Big 5
  05/14/09	A Haydn Place
  05/19/09	All-Star Evening
  05/29/09- 05/30/09	Keith's Finale