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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:33:00

Atlanta's concert hall was born from the city's deepest grief. Atlanta Symphony Hall opened on 19 October 1968 inside the Memorial Arts Center at 1280 Peachtree Street - the complex, now the Woodruff Arts Center, built in memory of the 106 Atlanta arts patrons killed in the 1962 Orly air crash while returning from a museum tour of Europe. Robert Shaw conducted the inaugural concert, an all-French program honouring the French citizens whose contributions helped raise the building. The 1,762-seat...