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Portrait of actor Edwin Booth, circa 1861.
Advertisement in the Brooklyn Daily Newspaper for a lecture by Henry Ward Beecher in May of 1864.
Program for the Philharmonic Society of Brooklyn (1866/1866) by Brooklyn Academy of MusicBrooklyn Academy of Music
Ticket for the Thirteenth Infantry Full Dress Reception (1870/1870) by Brooklyn Academy of MusicBrooklyn Academy of Music
Advertisement for a lecture featuring an illustration of Mark Twain riding a frog (1873/1873) by unknownBrooklyn Academy of Music
Advertisement for the Henry Ward Beecher lecture The Loss and Gain (1876-05-04/1876-05-04) by The Brooklyn Daily EagleBrooklyn Academy of Music
Program for Decoration Day Event (1877/1877) by Brooklyn Academy of MusicBrooklyn Academy of Music
H.M.S. Pinafore premiered in London in 1878, three years before this Brooklyn run.
Program for musical concert with mixed bill (1879/1879) by Brooklyn Academy of MusicBrooklyn Academy of Music
Program for Frou-Frou and Camille featuring Sarah Berhardt (1881/1881) by Moffatt & Hollaman Programme PublishersBrooklyn Academy of Music
Program for Defeated presented by The Kemble (1882/1882) by Brooklyn Academy of MusicBrooklyn Academy of Music
Program for Much Ado About Nothing presented by The Kemble (1884/1884) by Brooklyn Academy of MusicBrooklyn Academy of Music
Ticket for General Ulysses S. Grant Memorial Service (1885-09-29/1885-09-29) by Brooklyn Academy of MusicBrooklyn Academy of Music
Program for the Philharmonic Society of New York (1886/1886) by Brooklyn Academy of MusicBrooklyn Academy of Music
Program for Our Boys presented by The Gilbert (1888/1888) by Brooklyn Academy of MusicBrooklyn Academy of Music
Program for L.A. Benjamin’s World’s Fair Children’s Carnival (1893/1893) by Brooklyn Academy of MusicBrooklyn Academy of Music
Program for Silas G. Pratt’s America (1895/1895) by Brooklyn Academy of MusicBrooklyn Academy of Music
A highlight of the 1895 season was a series of Wagner operas, Tristan and Isolde, Siegfired, and Lohengrin, under the direction of Walter Damrosch.
Program for performance by Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1900-01-18/1900-01-18) by Brooklyn Academy of MusicBrooklyn Academy of Music
On the morning of November 30, 1903, that first building burned to the ground.
After Brooklyn Academy of Music's first building on Montague Street burned in 1903, Brooklyn Borough President Martin W. Littleton engaged prominent Brooklynites to rehouse Brooklyn's cultural Academy and its educational partner the Brooklyn Institute.
In 1906, the cornerstone for the new building was laid at 30 Lafayette Avenue.
A 1907 photograph of the interior of the new Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House, designed by architects Herts & Tallant in the Beaux Arts style.
Postcard featuring the Brooklyn Academy of Music (1909/1909)Brooklyn Academy of Music
Author, educator, and civil rights activist Booker T. Washington spoke at the Academy's original Montague Street site and in 1909, at the current Opera House.
On October 15, 1910, Pavlova performed her signature, "The Dying Swan.”
Program for Aïda (1910/1910) by Brooklyn Academy of MusicBrooklyn Academy of Music
Photograph of suffragists promoting the Woman Suffrage Mass Meeting on the roof of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (1913/1913) by Library of CongressBrooklyn Academy of Music
Raymond L. Ditmars, pioneering naturalist and the first curator of reptiles at the Bronx Zoo, lectured at the Academy in the fall of 1914.
The Met presented seasons in Brooklyn, featuring star singers such as Caruso, until 1921.
In 1942, the Majestic was transformed into a first-run movie house in elegant European style by a Parisian and his two sons, wealthy showmen who had fled the Nazis.
Since its opening, BAM's main building has witnessed history-making performances and lectures by a who's who of artists and important figures including Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 1962 American debut of Rudolf Nureyev.
By the time Harvey Lichtenstein was appointed executive director in 1967, the programs and facilities needed rethinking.
Since 1967 it has expanded into a center for experimental theater, new opera, contemporary and ethnic music and dance, independent films, and multimedia productions.
The exception is BAM’s Next Wave Festival, an annual program of experimental theater and music begun in 1981 that has featured such artists as Tom Waits, Robert Wilson, and Trisha Brown.
It began in 1983, and features performances by international and American artists.
Lichtenstein raised funds for an award-winning renovation of the theater, completed in 1987.
To address this problem, BAM brought in Pentagram to design a consistent graphic program for Next Wave in 1995.
When BAM undertook a major renovation of its historic building in the spring of 1996, it saw the opportunity to extend the new “pan-BAM” graphic image to the building itself.
Lichtenstein ushered in a new and vibrant era at BAM. During the 32 years he was at the helm, BAM experienced a renaissance, and is now recognized internationally as a preeminent, progressive cultural center. Its facilities feature the Howard Gilman Opera House (2109 seats), the Harvey (874 seats), named in Lichtenstein’s honor at his retirement in 1999, and the Fisher, named for patron and board member Richard B. Fisher.
The 2012 inauguration of the BAM Fisher was a cornerstone of BAM's 150th anniversary celebration, and its design and programming signaled a commitment to the future.
She ended up selling that apartment for $635,000 and purchased the apartment on Prospect Park West in December 2015.
But the Brooklyn Academy of Music took it a step further in 2015 when Katy Clark became its president.
David Binder, a Tony Award-winning producer, succeeded Executive Producer Joseph V. Melillo in 2019.
BAM’s new artistic director, David Binder, a former Broadway producer, has only been in the post since 2019; some staff members complain that since the pandemic darkened their theaters, the academy has not moved as aggressively into online programming as some of its peers.
While CBH collections are closed due to COVID, preparations are in the works to reopen in 2021 for scholars, researchers, students and the public, all free of charge.
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| Fairfield Theatre | 2001 | $5.0M | 35 | - |
| Clear Space Theatre | 2004 | $840,000 | 15 | - |
| Strings Music Festival | 1988 | $1.2M | 14 | - |
| Des Moines Metro Opera | 1973 | $5.0M | 350 | - |
| Llewellyn Worldwide | - | $2.8M | 50 | - |
| J. The Jewish News of Northern California | 1895 | $3.2M | 30 | 13 |
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| Bluewater | 2001 | $58,465 | 20 | 36 |
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