Symphony Hall is a shoebox hall with 2,625 seats. Designed by McKim, Mead and White, it opened in 1900. Harvard Professor Wallace Clement Sabine helped plan the hall, introducing new techniques to ...

Percussionist Adrian Spillett takes soundings at Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Birmingham’s Symphony Hall opened in 1991, and has been critically acclaimed as Britain’s finest concert hall.

The best halls, he says, rely not on amplified sound but on the careful arrangement of materials and surfaces, convex and concave, to direct sound around the room.

Fans of Dave Matthews Band, classics played by the Philadelphia Orchestra, jazz, the New York City Ballet, movies with a live orchestra and other major acts flock to the Saratoga Performing Arts ...

Where a concert or a show takes place can be just as important as the event itself. Many times, the venue adds to the experience. Here are a few places in the United States that we would like to see a ...

Imagine if everything was turned upside down and jazz ruled the world. Birmingham music lovers have been congregating under the tarmac since 2008, when jazz musician and Radio 3 presenter Soweto ...

The Nightingale Concert Hall and the Harlan O. and Barbara Hall Recital Hall are best accessed through the Church Fine Arts Building located on Virginia Street. To access both venues, enter Church ...

There's no objective way to determine the best acoustics for concert halls, though most people agree on the basics. Sydney Opera House? Awful. New York's Avery Fisher Hall? Mediocre. Vienna's ...