Concordia Hall (Baltimore, Maryland)

The Concordia Hall, presented in 1866 in Die Gartenlaube

Interior (1866)

Concordia Hall was a music venue in Baltimore, Maryland.^[1] It was founded in 1866 by Germans from the largest immigrant community in that city. It was the location for readings by Charles Dickens in 1868, during his second visit to America.,^[2] and other visiting lecturers and musical groups, and the site of civic events. Concordia Hall was located on Eutaw Street, south of German Street (now known as Redwood Street).^[3]

The great Yiddish actor, Boris Thomashefsky, came to Baltimore in the mid-1880s and gave what was probably the first performance of Yiddish theater in Baltimore at Concordia Hall. In his autobiography he left a description of the Hall:

"...Concordia Hall, the aristocratic club of the Baltimore German Jews. The Hall was truly a beauty. No more beautiful hall have I seen even up to the present day. There were more than one thousand seats, true theater seats. The hall was decorated all in gold. The seats were gilded and covered in red velvet. The floors were spread with expensive carpets. The stage was also gorgeous, bedecked with expensive decorations. Huge gilt chandeliers lit the beautiful interior. The dressing rooms were spacious, airy and lavishly furnished. The entry to the theater was truly magnificent. Wide steps of white marble with six marble columns on each side just like the White House in Washington. It was in this spectacular palace where we would play our first Yiddish performance." (Translation by Daniel Setzer)^[4]

A fire destroyed the Corcordia in 1891.^[3]

References

↑ Scharf, J. T. (1874). The chronicles of Baltimore: Being a complete history of "Baltimore town" and Baltimore city from the earliest period to the present time. Baltimore: Turnbull Bros.
↑ Dickens, Charles, Madeline House, and Graham Storey. Letters. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965. p.709
1 2 "Timeline - GermanMarylanders". GermanMarylanders.org. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
↑ Thomashefsky, Boris, "Mein Lebens-Geschichte", Trio Press, New York, 1937 p.168

Coordinates: 39°17′18.5″N 76°37′15.25″W / 39.288472°N 76.6209028°W / 39.288472; -76.6209028

Music venues of Maryland

Outdoor	FedExField Merriweather Post Pavilion Pier Six Pavilion Pimlico Race Course Rocky Gap State Park

Theaters and clubs	Arch Social Club Avalon Theatre Charm City Art Space Concordia Hall Hippodrome Theatre Lithuanian Hall Lyric Opera House Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Rams Head Live! Strathmore

Arenas	Retriever Activities Center Royal Farms Arena SECU Arena XFINITY Center

Festivals	Takoma Park Folk Festival Virgin Festival

Historic venues	Hammerjack's HFStival Maryland Theater Recher Theatre

University theaters	Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Tawes Theatre Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

Ethnic history of Baltimore

Groups	African Americans Czechs French Germans Greeks Hispanics and Latinos Irish Italians Jews Koreans Lithuanians Native Americans Poles Russians Ukrainians

Ethnic enclaves	Chinatown Corned Beef Row French Town Greektown Koreatown Little Bohemia Little Italy Little Lithuania Little Poland Little Ukrainian Village Otterbein Spanish Town

Institutions	Baltimore American Indian Center Baltimore Hebrew University Bohemian National Cemetery Christ United Church of Christ Concordia Hall Grand Lodge Č.S.P.S. of Baltimore Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation Hebrew Orphan Asylum Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church Holy Rosary Church Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church Jewish Museum of Maryland Lithuanian Hall National Great Blacks In Wax Museum National Slavic Museum Oblate Sisters of Providence Otterbein Church Our Lady of Pompeii Church Polish Home Hall Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture Royal Theatre St. Alphonsus Church St. Casimir Church St. Elizabeth of Hungary St. Francis Xavier Church St. Leo's Church St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church St. Peter the Apostle Church Sts. Peter & Paul Ukrainian Catholic Church St. Vincent de Paul Church St. Wenceslaus in Baltimore Transfiguration of our Lord Russian Orthodox Church Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association Building Zion Lutheran Church

Events	Baltimore riot of 1968 2015 Baltimore protests

Media	Ethnic press in Baltimore (Baltimore Afro-American Baltimore Jewish Times Baltimore Wecker Latin Opinion Telegraf Where What When)

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