In announcing the gift, Foundation President L. Though it could not be readied for full use by the beginning of the summer session, the property was made ready for an open house reception and musical performance on August 5, This lively and colorful chorus, a mix of students and local people, performed in gypsy costume. The energetic Thomas had a dual role that year as a member of the faculty and as newly named executive director of the Music Academy.
By the summer session the Miraflores campus was ready. The enormous living room and dining room had required very little alteration to become concert halls with excellent acoustics. The only disadvantage of the new site was the lack of dormitory and faculty housing that Cate School had provided to that point. That year, and for a number of years thereafter, students were housed in sorority and fraternity houses at UCSB.
They were provided with breakfast and dinner in the houses, and were transported by bus to the Music Academy, where lunch was served cafeteria style in the large Music Academy kitchen. A generous offer by Mrs. John D.
Graham solved the immediate problem of faculty housing. Graham invited the Music Academy to use her room mansion on Eucalyptus Hill as a guest home and residence for faculty members.
The house also provided facilities where students and faculty could mingle socially. Abravanel Hall, the antecedent to Hahn Hall, opened in The earlier building was named for the late conductor Maurice Abravanel, who served as music director at the Academy from to Originally a carriage house on the Jefferson estate, this campus facility features 16 acoustically designed practice studios and remodeled restrooms and shower rooms.
Hahn Hall — named in honor of Academy benefactors Carla and Stephen Hahn — was completed just prior to the start of the Summer School and Festival. In addition to a masterclass venue bearing the name of Academy supporter Robert W. Risus commodo viverra maecenas accumsan lacus vel facilisis. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Possibly America's first indoor football game took place here in between the University of Pennsylvania and a club from Princeton resulting in a tie.
Despite its name, the Academy has never contained a music school. Various voice and instrumental competitions have taken place there, including the Pavarotti competition. An architectural competition for the Academy's design was announced in October and was won by the Philadelphia firm of Napoleon LeBrun and Gustavus Runge. A style of architecture that originated in Runge's native Germany now known as Rundbogenstil "round arch style" was used for the exterior here and in a number of American buildings of the Civil War Era.
The groundbreaking ceremony was held on June 18, , with President Franklin Pierce in attendance and the venue opened with a grand ball on January 26, The first opera performed there was the Western Hemisphere premiere of Giuseppe Verdi 's Il Trovatore , on February 25 of the same year. In order to reserve as much of the budget for the interior as possible, the architects designed a relatively plain brick and brownstone exterior that could be clad in marble if funds became available later.
The ornate auditorium has an "open horseshoe" shape and proscenium columns with elliptical cross-sections in order to provide more direct sight lines from the seats in the side balconies. The auditorium is enclosed by a solid three-foot brick wall with studding and pine boards lining the inner sides to prevent echoes and absorb sound.
The upper balconies are recessed in a tiered fashion and supported by 14 Corinthian columns. An unusual feature was that the boxes were originally placed against the rear wall on the second and third levels Balcony and Family Circle. They were divided from each other by walls that curved down from the ceilings.
These have since been removed and boxes created elsewhere. The front of the first balcony is highly ornamented. The hall currently has a seating capacity of 2, which can be expanded to 2, when seats are placed in the orchestra pit and proscenium boxes.
An account by Runge mentioned that the full auditorium, then nearly 3, persons, could be emptied in four minutes in "great calmness and order" owing to the wide corridors and stairways. The interior might be considered an early example of American Baroque Revival architecture. The auditorium is graced by a large crystal chandelier, which measures 16 ft 4.
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