This is the inaugural year of the Carnegie Hall Digital Hall of Fame, an annual celebration in which we recognize individuals intrinsic to the founding and continued existence of the Hall and whose lives or careers are inextricably woven into the fabric of the Hall's 125-year history.
Andrew Carnegie: Carnegie Hall Digital Hall of Fame 2015 by Stanley ChowCarnegie Hall
Andrew Carnegie, Founder and Philanthropist
Louise Carnegie: Carnegie Hall Digital Hall of Fame 2015 by Stanley ChowCarnegie Hall
Louise Carnegie, Wife of Andrew Carnegie and Board Member of the Carnegie Corporation: “I am the unknown wife of a somewhat well-known business man.”
Walter Damrosch: Carnegie Hall Digital Hall of Fame 2015 by Stanley ChowCarnegie Hall
Walter Damrosch, Conductor and Composer: “The musical field in America is certainly wonderful in its possibilities, and all my life I have reached out with both hands and have worked incessantly and enthusiastically in my calling.”
William Burnet Tuthill: Carnegie Hall Digital Hall of Fame 2015 by Stanley ChowCarnegie Hall
William Burnet Tuthill, Architect: "The result came out exactly as planned and no alterations of the interior of the Hall have been required or made. It stands as built."
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Carnegie Hall Digital Hall of Fame 2015 by Stanley ChowCarnegie Hall
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer and Conductor
Marian Anderson: Carnegie Hall Digital Hall of Fame (2015) by Stanley ChowCarnegie Hall
Marian Anderson, Contralto
Vladimir Horowitz: Carnegie Hall Digital Hall of Fame 2015 by Stanley ChowCarnegie Hall
Vladimir Horowitz, Pianist
Benny Goodman: Carnegie Hall Digital Hall of Fame 2015 by Stanley ChowCarnegie Hall
Benny Goodman, Clarinetist and Band Leader: "That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. Personally, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in and hear the greeting the guys got."
Isaac Stern: Carnegie Hall Digital Hall of Fame 2015 by Stanley ChowCarnegie Hall
Isaac Stern, Violinist and President of Carnegie Hall: "Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music."
Duke Ellington: Carnegie Hall Digital Hall of Fame (2015) by Stanley ChowCarnegie Hall
Duke Ellington, Pianist, Composer, and Band Leader: "There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good, it's successful; if it doesn't, it has failed."
Leonard Bernstein: Carnegie Hall Digital Hall of Fame 2015 by Stanley ChowCarnegie Hall
Leonard Bernstein, Conductor and Composer
Ella Fitzgerald: Carnegie Hall Digital Hall of Fame (2015) by Stanley ChowCarnegie Hall
Ella Fitzgerald, Jazz Singer: "This is the place that made me legitimate. Coming here [to Carnegie Hall] makes me feel like I am coming home. There's just a feeling I get singing here that I don't get anywhere else."
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All portraits by Stanley Chow, (c) Carnegie Hall.
