Across the river in St. Paul, a new era at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts begins in late February with the opening of its new concert hall. Ordway President Patricia Mitchell promises a party there, too. Twenty-two days of opening nights, she said. Custom designed for the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the intimate, 1,100-seat hall will also present other acoustic music. It will free up the Ordways main stage and solve scheduling problems that have long bedeviled the Ordways principal tenants: the SPCO, the Schubert Club, the Minnesota Opera and the Ordway itself. A capital campaign raised $80 million to build the hall and create an endowment to help pay for programming. SPCO President Bruce Coppock said the success of the campaign shows how the people of Minnesota can get things done. Its absolutely extraordinary, he said. Its a huge community victory. #RocktheOrdway
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:02:50 +0000
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