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7 lip 2023 · Adelina Patti sings “Home, Sweet Home” for opening night. The Chicago Auditorium (Auditorium Building) is located at the northwest corner of South Michigan Avenue and Congress Street (now Ida B. Wells Drive). 1890: Charles Norman Fay, a Chicago businessman, invites Theodore Thomas to establish an orchestra in Chicago.
7 cze 2024 · In just 40 years, house music has evolved from an underground scene into a global sensation. This groundbreaking genre has influenced a diverse range of today’s artists across the musical spectrum and forever changed the dance music landscape. And it all started in Chicago.
5 gru 2022 · On December 6, 1922—100 years ago—at 62nd Street and Cottage Grove, in the Woodlawn neighborhood, the Trianon Ballroom opened its doors and counted itself among the city’s nightlife destinations. An undated photograph of the exterior of the Trianon Ballroom at Cottage Grove and East 62nd Street.
27 sty 2022 · Cabarets and dance halls became spaces for both musical and social experimentation, and the new genre of “jazz”—also known as “hot music”—was at the center of it all.
24 sie 2022 · Chicago’s rich history and famous venues have had a significant role in shaping early electronic music culture. It begins at The Warehouse, a three-story factory established as a nightclub in 1977. Still a venue, it is known today as the Music Box.
2 mar 2023 · By the mid-1990s the house music from Chicago and other American cities had morphed into electronic dance music styles like acid house, trance and drum and bass. These styles came back to the American mainstream as the millennium approached, now packaged as "electronica."
22 cze 2023 · From 1977 to 1982, Frankie Knuckles was the resident DJ at the 206 S. Jefferson St. loft-turned-dance club. The Warehouse, a West Loop building in Chicago known as the birthplace of house...
