Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is one of Manhattan's most famous concert venues to visit with your car rental or convertible rental in New York. This venue is particularly well-known for classical music, but is also know for popular music performances as well as its beauty and architecture.

Hitting the right note

Carnegie Hall was designed in a revivalist brick and brownstone Italian Renaissance style by an amateur cellist. Much of the success of the building's design is due to this man's musical background and knowledge of what sounds best in a concert hall.

When you visit with your Manhattan SUV rental, you will discover that the whole nbuilding is built entirely of masonry and is without a steel frame. However, with the addition of several studio spaces in the 20th century, a steel frame was added to parts of the building.

Three ways to appreciate beauty

Carnegie Hall has three distinct and separate concert halls for you to visit. There is the Main Hall, the Recital Hall, and the Chamber Music Hall.

The Main event

The Main Hall, also known as the Isaac Stern Auditorium/Ronald O. Pereleman Family Stage, seats 2804 people on five levels and is probably the most recognized of the halls. The Main Hall is known for its warm and live acoustics. In fact, "it has been said that the hall itself is an instrument". This hall is very large and it is 105 steps to the top balcony. Many of the greatest performers in classical music have performed here since it was built in 1890.

Smaller, more intimate, venues

When you visit, you will also want to check out the smaller venues as well!

The Zankel Hall seats 599 people. Once known as the "Recital Hall", this was once the home to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 1959, it became cinema until 1997 when it was used as an auditorium. In September 2003, the hall was reconstructed because the passing subway trains could be heard underneath.

The Weill Recital Hall, which seats 268 people, was named for one of Carnegie Hall's chairmen of the board and his wife.

Carnegie Hall also contains an archive and museum, which you can visit. Interestingly enough, it wasn't until 1986 that Carnegie Hall consistently maintained an archive. The public helped out immensely to donate old programs and artifacts that they had kept over the years as the hall prepared for its 100th birthday in 1991. Today, there is an extensive archive that is maintained. Visiting with your New York sports car rental is a must for any music lover.