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The Bowery Boys: New York City History

#57 Carnegie Hall

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Places & Travel, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.73.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2008

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Well, we can at least show you the way through its tumultuous history, from a fortunate meeting on a Norwegian cruise ship, past a symphonic rivalry, and into the 20th Century with some of the biggest names in classical and popular music. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

Transcript

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0:00.0

Episode 57 of The Bowry Boys. Live at Carnegie Hall.

0:04.5

Hey, it's The Bowry Boys!

0:06.2

Hey!

0:08.2

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0:12.0

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0:16.9

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0:21.7

Hello there and welcome to The Bowry Boys. My name is Greg Young.

0:25.4

And I'm Tom Myers.

0:26.8

And we're going to give you a very austere, high-minded episode.

0:30.9

Yes, we are going uptown, if you will, or at least in upper midtown, for an evening at Carnegie Hall.

0:37.8

We have our tuxes on with our white gloves, a night of classical music, jazz, opera.

0:45.0

You'll be hearing a lot of different musical styles in this episode because a lot,

0:48.8

with through Carnegie Hall, we'll tell you some about, of course, its founder, Andrew Carnegie,

0:54.7

as well as many men and women who worked behind the scenes into getting this significant

1:00.6

performance space up and running.

1:02.4

Right. It may be named after Mr. Carnegie, but several other people came and touched the project,

1:07.8

you could say, in stages.

1:09.8

Yeah, oh, thank you.

1:12.2

And on those stages, every single person who is an iconic figure of music,

1:18.6

of all different kinds of music, has performed at Carnegie Hall.

1:22.1

That's a pretty steep climb, Greg.

1:23.8

And we're going to hold you to it.

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