Odeon, Boston, 19th centuryDetail of 1838 map of Boston, showing Odeon on Federal St.
The Odeon (1835 – c. 1846) of
Boston,
Massachusetts, was a lecture and concert hall on
Federal Street in the building also known as the
Boston Theatre.[1][2] The 1,300-seat auditorium measured "50 feet square" with "red moreen"-upholstered "seats arranged in a circular order, and above them ... spacious galleries."[3] The
Boston Academy of Music occupied the Odeon in the 1830s and 1840s[4] Notable events at the Odeon included "the first performance in Boston of a
Beethoven symphony."[5]
^Eulogy on King Philip, as pronounced at the Odeon, in Federal Street, Boston, by the Rev. William Apess, an Indian, January 8, 1836 (2nd ed.), Boston: The author, 1837,
OCLC4332979,
OL24166555M
^Sponsored by the Massachusetts Temperance Society. Larry A. Carlson. "Bronson Alcott's 'Journal for 1837' (Part One)." Studies in the American Renaissance, (1981), pp. 27-132
^
abcLarry A. Carlson. "Bronson Alcott's 'Journal for 1838' (Part One)." Studies in the American Renaissance, (1993), pp. 161-244
^Ralph Waldo Emerson (1924). War : an address before the American Peace Society at the Odeon, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1838. Washington, D.C.: American Peace Society.
^The Musical Magazine (Boston) no.38, June 6, 1840
^Meyers, Jeffrey. Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy. New York: Cooper Square Press, 1992.
ISBN0-8154-1038-7
Further reading
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Odeon, Boston.
Bowen, Abel (1838), Bowen's Picture of Boston, Boston: Otis, Broaders and company,
OCLC5204074,
OL6905756M
Michael Broyles. "Music and Class Structure in Antebellum Boston." Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 451–493
Odeon, Boston, 19th centuryDetail of 1838 map of Boston, showing Odeon on Federal St.
The Odeon (1835 – c. 1846) of
Boston,
Massachusetts, was a lecture and concert hall on
Federal Street in the building also known as the
Boston Theatre.[1][2] The 1,300-seat auditorium measured "50 feet square" with "red moreen"-upholstered "seats arranged in a circular order, and above them ... spacious galleries."[3] The
Boston Academy of Music occupied the Odeon in the 1830s and 1840s[4] Notable events at the Odeon included "the first performance in Boston of a
Beethoven symphony."[5]
^Eulogy on King Philip, as pronounced at the Odeon, in Federal Street, Boston, by the Rev. William Apess, an Indian, January 8, 1836 (2nd ed.), Boston: The author, 1837,
OCLC4332979,
OL24166555M
^Sponsored by the Massachusetts Temperance Society. Larry A. Carlson. "Bronson Alcott's 'Journal for 1837' (Part One)." Studies in the American Renaissance, (1981), pp. 27-132
^
abcLarry A. Carlson. "Bronson Alcott's 'Journal for 1838' (Part One)." Studies in the American Renaissance, (1993), pp. 161-244
^Ralph Waldo Emerson (1924). War : an address before the American Peace Society at the Odeon, Boston, Massachusetts, in 1838. Washington, D.C.: American Peace Society.
^The Musical Magazine (Boston) no.38, June 6, 1840
^Meyers, Jeffrey. Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy. New York: Cooper Square Press, 1992.
ISBN0-8154-1038-7
Further reading
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Odeon, Boston.
Bowen, Abel (1838), Bowen's Picture of Boston, Boston: Otis, Broaders and company,
OCLC5204074,
OL6905756M
Michael Broyles. "Music and Class Structure in Antebellum Boston." Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 451–493
