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Carnegie was a major patron of music. He was a founding financial backer of Jeannette Thurber's National Conservatory of Music of America in 1885. [69] He built the music performing venue Carnegie Hall in New York City; it opened in 1891 and remained in his family until 1925.
Carnegie required the elected officials—the local government—to: demonstrate the need for a public library; provide the building site; pay staff and maintain the library; draw from public funds to run the library—not use only private donations; annually provide ten percent of the cost of the library's construction to support its operation ...
In 1885, he gave $500,000 to Pittsburgh for a public library, and in 1886, he gave $250,000 to Allegheny City for a music hall and library, and $250,000 to Edinburgh, Scotland, for a free library. In total Carnegie gave $55 million to some 3,000 libraries, in 47 American states and overseas.
The Carnegie United Kingdom Trust is an independent, endowed charitable trust [1] based in Scotland that operates throughout Great Britain and Ireland. Originally established with an endowment from Andrew Carnegie in his birthplace of Dunfermline, it is incorporated by a royal charter and shares purpose-built premises with the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, [2] the Carnegie ...
The Chorus will perform an encore of the music they sang in New York at 3 p.m., March 24, at First Baptist Church of Savannah on historic Chippewa Square.
Grants for public libraries and church organs continued until 1917, and also went to other Carnegie organizations, and universities, colleges, schools, and educational agencies. Carnegie's letter of gift to the original trustees making the endowment said that the trustees would "best conform to my wishes by using their own judgement."
Robert Burns’ dance teacher William Gregg reportedly played the antique fiddle which is now being used to celebrate traditional music.
William B. Tuthill is best remembered as the architect of Carnegie Hall in New York City. Tuthill was a talented amateur cellist and served as a board member of the Oratorio Society of New York along with Andrew Carnegie. This led to his receiving the commission to design the Music Hall that would be funded by and eventually bear Carnegie's name.