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Museum & Archives - Online Exhibits
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Online Exhibits
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From the Archives:
Over the last 20 years, the Carnegie Hall Archives has collected many thousands of programs, photographs, and other artifacts related to the Hall’s history. A selection can now be viewed in the photo galleries below, which feature recently acquired items, selections from past Rose Museum exhibits, and parts of the collection that would otherwise remain unknown, helping to tell the story of the Hall’s varied and unique history.
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Leonard Bernstein: The Best of All Possible Worlds
Leonard Bernstein made one of the most dramatic debuts in Carnegie Hall’s history. On November 14, 1943, when he stepped in at the last minute to conduct the New York Philharmonic, replacing the ailing Bruno Walter, he became an international celebrity—at the age of 25. “Lenny” was ready for it, and his name carried superlatives for the rest of his life …
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Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall commemorates the 70th anniversary of legendary clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman’s January 1938 Carnegie Hall debut, one of the most celebrated moments in jazz history, with a special exhibit titled Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall. The exhibit shows that Goodman was not only one of the world’s greatest jazz musicians, but also one of the finest classical clarinetists of his day.
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Hidden Gems
The collections of the Carnegie Hall Archives include many interesting, valuable, and sometimes strange objects that fall outside the scope of a typical Rose Museum exhibit. The items shown here, many being displayed for the first time, help illustrate little-known facets of Carnegie Hall’s history.
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Dance at Carnegie Hall
Ballet, tap, modern dance, flamenco, and a splendid array of international folk and classical dance styles and performers have graced Carnegie Hall’s stages almost from the very beginning in 1891. Dance has played a prominent role behind the scenes as well, in the upper-floor studios of Carnegie Hall, where numerous great figures in the world of 20th century dance studied, rehearsed, or taught. This exhibit chronicles but a small sampling of the wonderfully rich and varied history of dance at Carnegie Hall.
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