When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimmel_Center_for_the...

   In 1986, the Philadelphia Orchestra approved a plan to construct a new concert hall to replace the aging Academy of Music. It hoped to complete the new facility in time for its 1991 season. [ 2 ] The desire to move the orchestra from its facilities in the Academy of Music emerged as early as 1908, however plans stalled due to the lack of ...

3. Academy of Music (Philadelphia) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Music...

   Share of the American Academy of Music, issued October 15, 1856 The Academy of Music in 1870. The Academy of Music held an inaugural ball on January 26, 1857. Following it, The New York Times described the theater as "magnificently gorgeous, brilliantly lighted, solidly constructed, finely located, beautifully ornamented" but went on to lament "all that lacks is a few singers to render it 'the ...

4. Academy of Music (New York City) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Music_(New_York...

   It contained three tiers of elegant boxes to display the wealth of the city's new economic leaders. The new opera house was an instant success with New York society and music lovers alike, and the Academy of Music's opera season was canceled in 1886. [28] In 1888, the Academy began to offer vaudeville.

5. This Was the Highest-Grossing Movie the Year You Were Born - AOL

   www.aol.com/highest-grossing-movie-were-born...

   Adding Ingrid Bergman to the cast as a nun, the film was a box office hit and received eight Academy Award nominations. IMDb. 1946: 'Song of the South' ... 1965: 'The Sound of Music' Box-office ...

6. Miller Theater (Philadelphia) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_Theater_(Philadelphia)

   Miller Theater, originally the Sam S. Shubert Theatre and later, the Merriam Theater, is Philadelphia's most continuous location for touring Broadway shows.It is located at 250 South Broad Street within the Avenue of the Arts cultural district of Center City Philadelphia.

7. The Sound of Music (film) - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Music_(film)

   Box office $286.2 million [ 2 ] The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman , and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer , with Richard Haydn , Peggy Wood , Charmian Carr , and Eleanor Parker .

8. Brooklyn Academy of Music - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Academy_of_Music

   [6] The group applied to the New York State Legislature for a charter in the name of Brooklyn Academy of Music. [7] The New York Legislature passed the bill to incorporate the Brooklyn Academy of Music on February 16, 1859. [8] The group raised $60,000 by November 22 and another $90,000 by March 16, 1859.

9. Philadelphia Grand Opera Company - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Grand_Opera...

   The first company to be known as the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company (PGOC) was founded in 1916. Its first production, Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, opened on December 18 of that year at the Academy of Music with Regina Vicarino in the title role, Forrest Lamont as Edgardo, and Ettore Martini conducting.