Odeon, Boston
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The Odeon (1835 – c. 1846) of Boston, Massachusetts, was a lecture and concert hall on Federal Street in the building also known as the Boston Theatre.[1][2] The 1,300-seat auditorium measured "50 feet square" with "red moreen"-upholstered "seats arranged in a circular order, and above them ... spacious galleries."[3] The Boston Academy of Music occupied the Odeon in the 1830s and 1840s[4] Notable events at the Odeon included "the first performance in Boston of a Beethoven symphony."[5]
Events
1830s
- Samuel A. Elliot opening address[3]
- Joseph Story "on the life and professional character of the late Chief Justice Marshall"[6]
- William Apess lecture[7]
- James Madison memorial[6]
- William Ellery Channing lecture[8]
- Charles Zeuner concert
- Edward Everett lecture[9]
- A.E. Grimké lecture[10]
- Samuel J. May lecture[10]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson lecture[10][11]
- Society for the Prevention of Pauperism meeting[6]
1840s
- Musical Convention[12]
- Boston Children's Friend Society fundraiser[6]
- Massachusetts Temperance Union meeting[6]
- Boston Brigade Band concert[13]
- George Lunt presentation[14]
- Edgar Allan Poe reading[15]
References
Further reading
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