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    Read about the young conductor who convinced one of the world’s richest men to build a music hall in an undeveloped section of upper Manhattan, the performers who brought Carnegie Hall to prominence, and the crisis that helped shape Carnegie Hall into the dynamic non-profit music organization it is today. If you’re a researcher, take a look at the list of materials available in the Carnegie Hall Archives.

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    May 10, 2013
    NEWS | PHOTOS: Launched in July 2012, Carnegie Hall's Digital Archives Project continues apace. Currently, a specialist film lab is helping to preserve and digitize 16mm film from The 28 Week Miracle, a documentary on the renovation of Carnegie Hall's main auditorium in 1986.
    April 21, 2013
    READ | LISTEN | PHOTO: Today's installment of Live from Carnegie Hall remembers the solo Carnegie Hall debut 50 years ago of music legend and civil rights activist Nina Simone, who died 10 years ago today.
    April 12, 2013
    READ | PHOTO: During the three decades between 1965 and 1995, the great Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballé performed at Carnegie Hall more than 25 times. Today, on the occasion of her 80th birthday, our Museum Director and Archivist Gino Francesconi recalls a couple of moments from her near half-century association with the Hall.
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    Digital Archives Project
    Carnegie Hall’s Archives has embarked upon a multi-year initiative that will preserve and digitize most of the Hall’s historic collections.
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    Explore our history through displays of artifacts and memorabilia.
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