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Woolsey Hall is the primary auditorium at Yale University, located on the campus' Hewitt Quadrangle in New Haven, Connecticut. It was built as part of the Bicentennial Buildings complex that includes the Memorial Rotunda and the University Commons for the Yale bicentennial celebration in 1901, and was designed by the Beaux-Arts architectural ...
Woolsey Hall is used extensively and primarily for official University functions and musical events with few exceptions. Looming above and behind the Woolsey Hall stage (shown in the photos below) is the Newberry Memorial Organ, one of the most renowned Romantic organs in the world.
Looming above and behind the Woolsey Hall stage is the Newberry Memorial Organ, one of the most renowned Romantic organs in the world. The organ is named for John Stoughton Newberry, whose family had given Yale $50,000 for the building of the original Hutchings organ in 1903, and similar amounts for its renovation by Steere in 1915 and its ...
The Newberry Memorial Organ in Woolsey Hall was built in 1903 by the Hutchings-Votey Organ Company, improved mechanically and almost doubled in size in 1915 by the J. W. Steere & Sons Organ Company, and rebuilt and enlarged in 1928 by the Skinner Organ Company of Boston.
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Mar 10, 2016 · Part of a complex that includes the Memorial Rotunda and University Commons, Woolsey Hall was built at the beginning of the 20th century to mark the university’s bicentennial by Carrére and Hastings, who also designed the New York Public Library.
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Vital Organs. The Newberry is Yale's most famous pipe organ, but the university has several other instruments that are used for practice, lessons, recitals, and worship services—each with its own voice, strengths, and character.
