Schermerhorn Symphony Center
Schermerhorn main entrance in 2007
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 Schermerhorn Symphony Center
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| Address | One Symphony Place Nashville, Tennessee 37201-2031 |
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| Coordinates | 36°9′35″N 86°46′31″W / 36.15972°N 86.77528°WCoordinates: 36°9′35″N 86°46′31″W / 36.15972°N 86.77528°W |
| Owner | City of Nashville |
| Type | Concert hall |
| Capacity | 1,844 (Laura Turner Concert Hall) |
| Field size | 197,000 sq ft (18,300 m2) |
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| Broke ground | December 3, 2003 |
| Built | April 26, 2005 |
| Opened | September 9, 2006 |
| Construction cost | US$123.5 million |
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Earl Swensson Associates David M. Schwarz Architects Hastings Architecture Associates |
| Project manager | Donnell Consultants |
| Structural engineer | KSi Structural Engineers |
| Services engineer | I.C. Thomasson & Associates |
| General contractor | American Constructors, Inc. |
| Tenants | |
| Nashville Symphony (2006-present) | |
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The Schermerhorn Symphony Center is a concert hall in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Ground was broken for construction on December 3, 2003. The center formally opened on September 9, 2006, with a gala concert conducted by Leonard Slatkin and broadcast by PBS affiliates throughout the state. The center is named in honor of Kenneth Schermerhorn, who was the music director and conductor of the Nashville Symphony from 1983 until his death in 2005; the center was named before maestro Schermerhorn's death.
The 2006 Symphony Center is a prominent example of 21st century New Classical architecture.
At the heart of Schermerhorn Symphony Center is the 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2), 1,844-seat Laura Turner Concert Hall, which is home to the Nashville Symphony. The hall is of the shoebox style. It features natural lighting, which streams in through 30 soundproof, double-paned clerestory windows. Intricate symbolic motifs appear throughout the hall and the rest of the center, including irises (the Tennessee state flower), horseshoes (a tribute to the late Laura Turner's love of horses) and coffee beans (representing Nashville's Cheek family, which played a key role in the founding of the Nashville Symphony and also originally owned the Maxwell House Coffee brand).
Seats in Laura Turner Concert Hall are distributed over three levels, including a special choral loft behind the stage that can seat up to 146 chorus members; the seats are made available to audience members during non-choral performances. The stage can accommodate up to 115 musicians. The hall also features the custom-built Martin Foundation Concert Organ, crafted by Schoenstein & Co. of San Francisco, which has 47 voices, 64 ranks, and 3,568 pipes with three 32-foot stops.
The center's Neoclassical design blends elements of other Classical and Neoclassical structures in the city, such as the full-scale Parthenon replica and Nashville's main public library.
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