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Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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THE C01.UMBUS QUADRIGA, PERisTYLK. (D. C. French and E. C. Potter.) immense size, and with the foyers and promenades is amply ableto contain all the people who could be numbered in the largestaudience. For this reason the hall has the excellent property ofemptying quickly. Adjoining the vestibule are offices and retiring-rooms in sufficient quantity. Music Hall gives seating capacity forbetween 2,000 and 2,500 auditors, an orchestra of 120 and a chorus CHORAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. 409 of 300. The stage it will be seen is ample, and the audience-roomproportionate. In the rear of the stage are accommodations of themost modern order for participants in the concerts here given,prima donna, chorus singers and orchestra. The dressing andwardrobe rooms are commodious and numerous. The acousticproperties of the hall were found upon test to be of the best, andeverything else equally satisfactory. Within the same building isanother hall large enough to seat about 500 persons, which is
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THE GREAT ORGAN—BUILT BY FARRAND & VOTEY CO. devoted to chamber music and recitals, in distinction from the moreelaborate concerts which are given in the main auditorium. Festival or Choral Hall is a structure different in everything fromthe one just described, except in its adaptability to the purposesintended. It Is situated in the centre of the western portion of thepark, between the north end of the Transportation Building and thesouth end of the Horticultural Buildino-. Here it looks across the 4IO CHORAL AND INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC. inner Lagoon to the Wooded Island, and thence In the distance tothe great Manufactures Building by the lake. It Is simple andsevere In outline, following the Doric style of architecture, andpresents a spherical form both within and without, like that of anamphitheatre surmounted by a dome. On each of the four sidesis a portico covering an entrance, that on the side towards theLagoon being the principal one. This is supported by fluted Doriccolumns,

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