An estimated record crowd of 800,000 attended a 1986 classical music concert in this NYC park
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List of largest concerts - Wikipedia  This is a list of the largest concerts ever performed, in terms of estimated attendance. ... Rammstein, 800,000-1,200,000, Rock On The Volga, Samara, Russia, 2013 ... Summer Jam at Watkins Glen, 1973, New York, 1973, Largest attendance for pop festival ... "Musical Cry to Help Africa's Poor Is Heard Around Globe".
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A Photo History of the New York Philharmonic Parks Concerts - WQXR  Jun 17, 2015 ... The New York Philharmonic in Central Park in 1965 (New York ... night, with an "all-American" program in Central Park featuring music by Barber, ... Then, in July 5, 1986, an estimated 800,000 people attended its Great Lawn concert, ... (It received a Guinness World Record for classical concert attendance.)...
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Iconic Concerts in Central Park - The Central Park Blog  Jul 8, 2013 ... Estimates of attendance range from 450,000-800,000, but this ... So it was a risky chance the park took with its next large free concert three years later on July 5, 1986. The park hosted the New York Philharmonic and the rowdy crowds ... This concert produced the largest crowd ever for a classical music...
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Concerts with Record Attendance - Audio and Sound  The biggest concert by live attendance clocks in at a record 3.5 million ... New York Philharmonic in Central Park. (1986) 800,000 people ... The Philharmonic concert in Central Park is credited as the largest ever attendance at a classical concert. ... estimated 600,000 attendees, breaking the record for largest musical event...
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No Fences: Garth Brooks & the Fuzzy Math of 10 Mega-Concerts ...  Aug 9, 2012 ... All of a sudden, New York decided it was important to get a more accurate ... So, did Garth Brooks truly draw one of the biggest crowds in American ... Simon & Garfunkel in Central Park Estimated attendance: 500,000 .... crowd of 800,000 people, making it the largest classical music performance in history.
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God in the Garden : The Story of the New York Billy Graham ...  On the evening of September 11, 1957, Dr. Billy Graham faced the final and ... at the Yankee Stadium was attended by 100,000 people, the largest crowd in the ... He knew that the titanic city in which he had preached looked the same on the...
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Let's Just Say, It Was Crowded - The New York Times  Jan 2, 2008 ... How many people rang in the new year at Times Square on Monday night ... newspaper accounts tended to cite figures of around 500,000. ... Mr. Browne said that he did not know how long ago the department stopped releasing its crowd ... But he said police agencies continued to estimate the size of such...
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100,000 Fill Yankee Stadium to Hear Graham - The New York Times  July 21, 1957. 100,000 Fill Yankee Stadium to Hear Graham. By GEORGE DUGAN. O ne hundred thousand persons jammed Yankee Stadium last night to hear the ... The estimate of the crowd was made by James K. Thompson, the Stadium ... He said it eclipsed a record set in 1935 when 88,150 sports fans watched the...
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Downtown Alliance Commemorates 205 Canyon of Heroes Parades  Jul 23, 2012 ... a concert pianist. Since the first ticker-tape parade was held in 1886, the Canyon of .... Jesse Owens and members of the U.S. Olympic team on their return from .... March 16, 1962. Ahmadou ... 12, 1962. New York Mets, new National League baseball team ... October 20, 1969. New York ... October 28, 1986.
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Birthday Party for a 70-Year-Old Prodigy - NYTimes.com  LEAD: Leonard Bernstein, far and away America's most famous classical ... Published: August 26, 1988 ... It consisted of a gala concert tonight, starry even by the standards of such ... The host was Tanglewood, the rambling Berkshires estate that is the ... Music Center, this country's best-known musical summer school.
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The Philharmonic 360 Concert - New York Philharmonic  The New York Philharmonic 360 concert at the Park Avenue Armory. ... Also on the program are Pierre Boulez's Rituel in Memoriam Bruno Maderna, the Finale...
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Live Aid 30th anniversary: 30 things you never knew about the 1985 ...  Jul 13, 2015 ... ... Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the Ethiopian famine. Two concerts were held simultaneously and attended by 172,000 at Wembley ... Princess Diana: Attended Live Aid Concert at Wembley, London ... because they were upset at the low number of African-American artists taking part.
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The Hall of Fame: Music in Cincinnati - Classical Music Journalism ...  Mar 9, 1991 ... All have etched their sounds into the walls of Andrew Carnegie's musical ... Dvorak's "New World" Symphony was given its world premiere at ... Carnegie Hall has been a prized venue for popular as well as ... from retirement in 1965; the Beatles on their first American tour in 1964. ... 1921 - Toscanini debut.
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Central Park - Wikipedia  Central Park is an urban park in middle-upper Manhattan, within New York City. Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States, with 40 million visitors in 2013. It is also one of the most filmed locations in the world. ... Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux developed what came to be known as the...
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What Was, Is and Will Be Popular - NYTimes.com  Sep 6, 2013 ... From all this chaos, though, one truism about popularity apparently ... Now it could simply be the song that the most people, somewhere, were listening to, somehow. .... The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with 6.3 million visitors in 2012 ..... the Met in New York, Ever: The Treasures of Tutankhamen, 1978-79.
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jeopardy/1977_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  SYMPHONIES | Mahler's massive 8th is the "Symphony of" this many musicians, equal to 250 quartets | 1,000. right: Kathy. Wrong: Value: $600. Number: 23.
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Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti Zell Music Director ...  Jun 4, 2015 ... The historic premiere of Rhapsody in Blue, at. New York's Aeolian ... FIRST PERFORMANCE ... day party for the French composer the previous.
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Garth: Live from Central Park - Wikipedia  Garth: Live from Central Park was a concert held by American country pop musician Garth Brooks in New York City's Central Park on August 7, 1997. ... largest concert ever held in the park, with an estimated 980,000 fans in attendance. ... Don McLean were the rumored special guests, joining Brooks separately onstage to...
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History - Radio City Music Hall - New York City  Together Rockefeller, RCA and Roxy realized a fantastic dream - a theatre unlike any in ... One New York critic reports approvingly, "It has been said of the new Music Hall that it ... More than 300 million people have come to the Music Hall to enjoy stage shows, ... Actors can enter there to bring live action right into the house.
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3 day Monterey International Pop Music Festival 6/16/67. First widely ...  First widely promoted and heavily attended rock festival, with 90000 people present ... Dylan Going "Electric" at The 1965 Newport Folk Festival .... Flyer for Duke Ellington's 1952 Carnegie Hall concert with a host of jazz stars ..... (though some Ikea nuts might) But the #pop#art is nice. .... Source: thefilmstage ... He is missed.