Photo: Greg Murphey, Gregory Murphey Studios, Inc.
Ganz Hall
Roosevelt University
430 S. Michigan Ave., 7th Floor
Chicago (312-341-3780)
Roosevelt University's Auditorium Building is located at 430 South Michigan Avenue.
Ganz Hall is on the seventh floor of the Auditorium Building and
must be accessed through one of the elevators in the main lobby. Google map
Public parking is available at the Grant Park South Garage
one block north of the Auditorium Building off of Michigan Avenue.
Rudolph Ganz Memorial Hall - History:
(from the Wikipedia website)
"Chicago Musical College was founded in 1867,
less than four decades after the city of Chicago was incorporated.
It has given over a hundred years of uninterrupted service
to music and music education and
has played an important role in the development of the
cultural life of the Midwest . . .
In 1954, CMC merged with
Roosevelt University's School of Music
which was founded in 1945. . .
Ganz Hall was originally conceived as a banquet hall
for the Auditorium Hotel
after the building had already been constructed in 1890.
Louis Sullivan, the architect of the building,
was faced with trying to build a new large space
within the world's largest mixed-use high-rise building. . . .
A young apprentice working for Sullivan,
Frank Lloyd Wright, had obtained much responsibility
at the time and designed some of the ornament. . . . "
. . . more from the Wikipedia site
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Sharon Chang
Lisa Steltenpohl
Abraham Feder
Josephine will conduct Virtuosi Chicago, Stephen Burns and Conrad Tao performing - Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C
minor for Piano, Trumpet and Orchestra Op. 35
Music in the Loft has commissioned composer, Lita Grier to write a fanfare for trumpet and piano to celebrate our 15th anniversary.
