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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 10/07/2026 04:03:00

When Andrew Carnegie opened the doors of what he called a palace of music on November 5, 1895, some 2,000 guests filled the domed, three-tiered, half-circle auditorium in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighbourhood to hear the inaugural concert. The hall was part of an expanding cultural complex -- alongside the Carnegie Library, Carnegie Museum of Art, and Carnegie Museum of Natural History -- that Carnegie envisioned as a gift to the working people of the city. The Pittsburgh Orchestra, founded the sam...