Heinz Hall during a Performance

1935/1980

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Heinz Hall during a Performance
  • Title
  • Heinz Hall during a Performance
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B003.F15.I05
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B003.F15.I05
  • Description
  • In the late 1960s, the Pittsburgh Symphony was due to move out of its old home at the Syria Mosque in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The Heinz Endowment bought the old Penn Theatre, located at Sixth Street and Penn Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh, and created the Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts; the centerpiece of what would become Pittsburgh’s Cultural District. With the world’s largest orchestra endowment, estimated at $460 million in the early 1970’s, and under the careful tutelage of William Steinberg and later Andre Previn, the Pittsburgh Symphony joined the top rank of American orchestras.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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