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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:11:00

The orchestra rehearsed in school gymnasiums while its home hall double-booked around it - so one man built the musicians a palace. The Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, at 1212 Cathedral Street in Baltimore's Mount Vernon cultural district, opened on 16 September 1982 as the purpose-built home of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, with 2,443 seats in a boldly sculptural oval. The problem dated to 1969: conductor Sergiu Comissiona and executive director Joseph Leavitt raised the need for a new hal...