McFarlin Memorial Auditorium
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The McFarlin Memorial Auditorium is opened in 1926 and is the third oldest building of the private Southern Methodist University in Dallas County , Texas . It was built in the 1920s with the financial support of entrepreneur Robert M. McFarlin according to plans by RH Hunt in the colonial revival style . Originally designed as a chapel or auditorium, it should offer space for 2,386 people. In 1953 it received an organ ( MP Möller Opus M-7623).
It is used for concerts, lectures, academic celebrations, dance performances, and community shows. Prominent personalities from society and culture have appeared here and a. Madeleine Albright , Tony Blair , Dave Brubeck , Gerald R. Ford , Philip Glass , Vladimir Horowitz , Martin Luther King , Henry Kissinger , Yehudi Menuhin , Itzhak Perlman , Sergei Rachmaninoff , Arthur Rubinstein , Andrés Segovia , Ravi Shankar , Isaac Stern and Simon Wiesenthal .
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra used the auditorium as a venue from the 1930s and from 1951 to 1956, and from 1961 to 1972 after the renovation financed by Cecil and Ida Green.
On September 27, 1980, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Theodore Albrecht : Dallas Symphony Orchestra . In: Handbook of Texas Online , uploaded June 12, 2010; changed on November 1, 2015.
- ^ Robert R. Shrock: Cecil and Ida Green: Philanthropists Extraordinary . 2nd edition, MIT Press, Cambridge 1989, ISBN 0-262-19276-4 , p. 321.
- ^ John William Woldt: Dallas Symphony Orchestra . In: Robert R. Craven (ed.): Symphony Orchestras of the United States . Greenwood Press, New York et al. a. 1986, ISBN 0-313-24072-8 , pp. 386-390, here: pp. 388f.
Coordinates: 32 ° 50 ′ 39.3 " N , 96 ° 47 ′ 9.9" W.