Culture For The Non-Cultured

Earlier this month, I went on a tour of Carnegie Hall with a group from Culture for the Non-Cultured Meetup.

‘Twas a really cool tour, where we learned stuff about Andrew Carnegie and the Hall itself– like that:

• Andrew Carnegie’s mommy forbid him to marry while she was alive (hmmmm … Freud would have a field day with that one!)
• That Carnegie Hall has 837 seats in the balcony, because Andrew Carnegie came from very humble beginnings, and wanted there to be as many cheap seats as possible
• The origin of that old joke: “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” “Practice, practice, practice” was the following: Some violin player was leaving Carnegie Hall after a bad rehearsal. A tourist came up to him, and said, “how do you get to Carnegie Hall?”  His answer: “Practice, practice, practice”

Cool, eh?  Public tours start up again in September.