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

The first concert hall ever built on scientific principles is still ranked among the world's three best. Symphony Hall at 301 Massachusetts Avenue opened on 15 October 1900 as the permanent home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, commissioned by BSO founder Henry Lee Higginson from the architects McKim, Mead and White - with one decisive addition. Higginson hired Wallace Clement Sabine, a young Harvard physics professor, as acoustical consultant, and Sabine's new mathematical formula for reverber...