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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

Audiences and artists have compared this room to Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and Vienna's Musikverein - company no other Canadian hall keeps. The George Weston Recital Hall, at 5040 Yonge Street in the Meridian Arts Centre in Toronto's North York district, opened on 22 November 1993 with a recital by soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and is widely regarded as the country's finest recital hall. The acoustics are the work of New York acoustician Russell Johnson, who built a classic shoebox: meticulously ...