25-751: Paradise Theatre or Paradise Theater may refer to: Orchestra Hall (Detroit) , known as the Paradise Theatre from 1941 to 1951 Paradise Center for the Arts , a 1929 theater in Faribault, Minnesota, originally called the Paradise Theatre Paradise Theater (Bronx) , a 1929 theater in the Bronx, New York, originally called Loew's Paradise Theatre Paradise Theatre (album) ,
50-418: A Paganini of the organ. Being a virtuoso of the highest order, he contributed extensively to the development of technique (both in his organ music and in his pedagogical works) although, like Paganini, his music is largely unknown to musicians other than those who play the instrument for which the music was written. A fair and objective critique of his output should take into account the fact that, occasionally,
75-696: A 1981 concept album by the rock band Styx Paradise Theatre (Chicago) , a demolished 1928 movie palace and inspiration for the album by Styx Paradise Theatre (Toronto) , originally operated from 1937 to 2006, reopened in 2019 The Paradise, a fictional theatre featured in the film Phantom of the Paradise The Paradise Rock Club , a music venue located in Boston, Massachusetts, formerly known as Paradise Theater. See also [ edit ] Paradise (disambiguation) Paradise Club (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
100-544: A 450-seat venue for more intimate performances. The mayor of Detroit delivers the annual State of the City address at Orchestra Hall. Marcel Dupr%C3%A9 Marcel Jean-Jules Dupré ( French pronunciation: [maʁsɛl dypʁe] ; 3 May 1886 – 30 May 1971) was a French organist , composer , and pedagogue . Born in Rouen into a wealthy musical family, Marcel Dupré was a child prodigy. His father Aimable Albert Dupré
125-479: A composer, he produced a wide-ranging oeuvre of 65 opus numbers (+1 " bis "). Aside from a few fine works for aspiring organists (such as the 79 Chorales op. 28) most of Dupré's music for the organ ranges from moderately to extremely difficult, and some of it makes almost impossible technical demands on the performer (e.g., Évocation op. 37, Suite , op. 39, Deux Esquisses op. 41, Vision op. 44). Dupré's most often heard and recorded compositions tend to be from
150-460: A few. He prepared study editions of the organ works of Bach , Handel , Mozart , Liszt , Mendelssohn , Schumann , César Franck , and Alexander Glazunov . He also wrote a method for organ (1927), two treatises on organ improvisation (1926 and 1937), and books on harmonic analysis (1936), counterpoint (1938), fugue (1938), and accompaniment of Gregorian chant (1937), in addition to essays on organ building, acoustics, and philosophy of music. As
175-628: A large 4-manual, 72-rank, 4,355-pipe Casavant Frères organ to the DSO and Orchestra Hall "so long as the society remained integrally what it was". The organ's dedicatory concert was given March 17, 1924 by Marcel Dupré . Due to the financial difficulties of the Great Depression , the orchestra was compelled to leave Orchestra Hall and enter into a more economical arrangement to share the Masonic Temple Theatre . Orchestra Hall
200-554: A number of transcriptions. Dupré died after suffering cardiac arrest in 1971 in Meudon (near Paris) at the age of 85, on Pentecost Sunday ; playing for two services shortly beforehand. His wife, Jeanne-Claire Marguerite Dupré-Pascouau (his nickname for her was 'Jeannette') lived until 1978. She donated all of her husband's musical manuscripts to the Bibliothèque nationale de France . His daughter Marguerite (later Dupré-Tollet)
225-550: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Orchestra Hall (Detroit) Orchestra Hall is an elaborate concert hall in the United States, located at 3711 Woodward Avenue in Midtown Detroit , Michigan . The hall is renowned for its superior acoustic properties and serves as the home of the internationally known Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO),
250-505: The 20th century, and he was able to take given themes and spontaneously weave whole symphonies around them, often with elaborate contrapuntal devices including fugues. The achievement of these feats was partially due to his native genius and partially due to his extremely hard work doing paper exercises when he was not busy practising or composing. Although his emphasis as composer was the organ, Dupré's compositions also includes works for piano, orchestra and choir, as well as chamber music, and
275-522: The DSO build a suitable auditorium before he assumed his position as music director. Construction on Orchestra Hall began on June 6, 1919, and was completed in barely six months. The 2,014-seat hall was designed by the noted theater architect, C. Howard Crane . The first concert took place on October 23, 1919 and the hall remained the home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra until 1939. In 1924 Mr. and Mrs. William H. Murphy gifted
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#1732783541962300-717: The United States, Canada and Europe, which included a recital series of 10 concerts of the complete works of J. S. Bach in 1920 ( Paris Conservatoire ) and 1921 ( Palais du Trocadéro ), both performed entirely from memory. The sponsorship of an American transcontinental tour by the John Wanamaker Department Store interests rocketed his name into international prominence. Dupré's "Symphonie-Passion" began as an improvisation on Philadelphia 's Wanamaker Organ . Succeeding Widor in 1934 as titular organist at St. Sulpice in Paris, Dupré retained this position for
325-558: The earlier part of his career. During this time he wrote the Three Preludes and Fugues , Op. 7 (1912), with the First and Third Preludes (in particular the G minor with its phenomenally fast tempo and its pedal chords) being pronounced unplayable by no less a figure than Widor. Such, indeed, is these preludes' level of complexity that Dupré was the only organist able to play them in public for years. In many ways Dupré may be viewed as
350-733: The emphasis on virtuosity and technique can be detrimental to the musical content and substance. Nevertheless, his more successful works combine this virtuosity with a high degree of musical integrity, qualities found in compositions such as the Symphonie-Passion , the Chemin de la Croix , the Preludes and Fugues , the Esquisses and Évocation , and the Cortège et Litanie . As an improviser, Dupré excelled as perhaps no other did during
375-528: The fourth oldest orchestra in the United States. With the creation of an adjoining auditorium for jazz and chamber music in 2003, Orchestra Hall became part of the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center . It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra had previously played at the old Detroit Opera House. However, Ossip Gabrilowitsch demanded that
400-403: The hall and raise funds to restore it. Renovation work started in 1970 and continued for about two decades, costing roughly $ 6.8 million. The original building required extensive renovations including: a new stage, all new seating, plaster and lath work, and restoration of historical decorations. All of the restoration work was completed with the goal of maintaining the fine acoustic properties that
425-585: The hall was historically known for. The hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. The DSO moved back into Orchestra Hall in 1989. Additional work on the hall was done in the summer months of 2002 and 2003 as part of the creation of the new Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center, or "the MAX", as it is known. The work included renovations to the original facility as well as an expansion which houses additional lobbies and reception areas, dressing rooms and storage facilities, rehearsal space and
450-519: The movie That's My Baby! (Monogram, 1944, Richard Arlen , Ellen Drew ). The terms of the Murphy organ's donation to Orchestra Hall were such that the title of the organ reverted back to the Murphys when the DSO vacated Orchestra Hall in 1929. The Murphys arranged for the organ to be donated to Detroit's Calvary Presbyterian Church. A lawsuit was filed to compel Paradise Theater management to allow
475-501: The organ's removal; the move was eventually carried out by the Toledo Pipe Organ Company and church members in the middle of the night. The Paradise closed in 1951 and now Orchestra Hall sat vacant for nearly twenty years until the late 1960s when it was slated for demolition and the land used to construct a restaurant. Paul Ganson, the assistant principal bassoonist of the DSO, spearheaded a movement to rediscover
500-557: The rest of his life; thus it happened that, since Widor had been there for more than six decades, the position changed hands only once in a century. In 1937, he was engaged to perform at the wedding of the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson . The same year, Widor died. In 1926, he was appointed professor of organ performance and improvisation at the Paris Conservatoire , a position he held until 1954. From 1947 to 1954, Dupré
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#1732783541962550-573: Was also a friend of Cavaillé-Coll) were also organists. Having already taken lessons from Alexandre Guilmant (due to his appealing to his father), Dupre entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1904, where he studied with Louis Diémer and Lazare Lévy (piano), Guilmant and Louis Vierne (organ), and Charles-Marie Widor (fugue and composition). In 1914, Dupré won the Grand Prix de Rome for his cantata Psyché . Dupré became famous for performing more than 2,000 organ recitals throughout Australia,
575-919: Was director of the American Conservatory , which occupies the Louis XV wing of the Château de Fontainebleau near Paris. In 1954, after the death of Claude Delvincourt in a traffic accident, Dupré became director of the Paris Conservatoire ; he held this post for only two years before the prevailing national laws forced him to retire at the age of 70. He taught two generations of well-known organists such as Jehan Alain and Marie-Claire Alain , Jean-Marie Beaudet , Pierre Cochereau , Françoise Renet , Jeanne Demessieux , Rolande Ginabat-Falcinelli , Jean-Jacques Grunenwald , Odile Pierre , Jean Guillou , Jean Langlais , Carl Weinrich , Clarence Watters and, most famously, Olivier Messiaen , to name only
600-544: Was titular organist of Saint-Ouen Abbey from 1911 til his death and a friend of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll , who built an organ in the family house when Marcel was 10 years old. His mother Marie-Alice Dupré-Chauvière was a cellist who also gave music lessons, and his paternal uncle Henri Auguste Dupré was a violinist and violist. Both of his grandfathers, Étienne-Pierre Chauvière ( maître de chapelle at Saint-Patrice in Rouen and an operatic bass) and Aimable Auguste-Pompée Dupré (who
625-603: Was vacant for two years until it was purchased by new owners. For ten years Orchestra Hall presented jazz artists under the name Paradise Theater, opening on Christmas Eve 1941. The Paradise hosted the most renowned jazz musicians, including Ella Fitzgerald , Billie Holiday , Count Basie , and Duke Ellington . The entertainment at Paradise Theater often included a live act and a movie from a B movie studio like Republic Pictures , Monogram Pictures , or Producers Releasing Corporation . A typical show on October 27, 1944 featured Cab Calloway and his Cotton Club Orchestra on stage and
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