The symphony performance ends far too late for the children who should be the program's target viewers.
It has provided the stage for musicals, dance shows, symphony performances, and opera.
The municipality building, also in the center, has a concert hall that features regular symphony performances.
The building is still very much in use today, containing a pool, an indoor track, offices, and the occasional symphony performance.
During the rest of the year, it hosts numerous live concerts, awards shows, symphony performances, and other events.
Each year, 10,000 people come to the hall to participate in a performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.
"Or a conductor leading a silent symphony performance?"
Remember, he lived at a time when a performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony every two years or so was a big event.
The performance of his Second Symphony in Berlin in 1895 was a huge success.
The symphony performance had been profession- ally recorded and rebroadcast by one of the media con- glomerates.