{"id":12599,"date":"2024-03-04T19:09:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T19:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=12599"},"modified":"2024-03-04T19:09:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T19:09:39","slug":"philadelphia-orchestra-renames-verizon-hall-marian-anderson-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2024\/03\/04\/philadelphia-orchestra-renames-verizon-hall-marian-anderson-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Orchestra Renames Verizon Hall Marian Anderson Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12600\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/03\/Verizon-Hall.jpg\" alt=\"Verizon Hall, interior view.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/03\/Verizon-Hall.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/03\/Verizon-Hall-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/03\/Verizon-Hall-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/03\/Verizon-Hall-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Verizon Hall, Kimmel Centre (Photo: Meyer Sound)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This week, the Philadelphia Orchestra <a href=\"https:\/\/theviolinchannel.com\/the-philadelphia-orchestra-to-rename-hall-in-honor-of-civil-rights-movement-icon\/\">announced a name change<\/a> for their concert hall. Following a 25 million dollar gift, Verizon Hall will be renamed Marian Anderson Hall, honouring the renowned contralto.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Digging deeper:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philorch.org\/about-us\/learn-more\/Blog\/an-inspiring-leader\/\">Richard Worley, former chair of the Philadelphia Orchestra\u2019s board<\/a>, and his wife Leslie Miller made the legendary donation. The former financier and his wife <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/02\/28\/arts\/music\/philadelphia-orchestra-marian-anderson-hall.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare\">expressed a wish<\/a> to honour the trailblazing contralto who broke racial barriers and shared her formidable artistry despite civil rights adversity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it matters:<\/strong> Worley and Miller\u2019s donation is one of the largest in the Philadelphia Orchestra\u2019s history. It comes in an era when the Philadelphia Orchestra, under Yannick N\u00e9z\u00e9t-S\u00e9guin\u2019s leadership, has made efforts to create a more racially diverse, representative art form.\u00a0 Kudos to Worley and Miller for honouring Anderson; a formidable Philadelphian who overcame so much to touch the hearts of many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a 25 million dollar donation, the Philadelphia Orchestra\u2019s home will be renamed in honour of the great Black opera singer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":12600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[360,3],"tags":[401],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/03\/Verizon-Hall.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12601,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12599\/revisions\/12601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12599"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}