The Odeon (1835 – c. 1846) of Boston, Massachusetts, was a lecture and concert hall on Federal Street in the building also known as the Boston Theatre.Boston Almanac. 1841 The 1,300-seat auditorium measured "50 feet square" with "red moreen"-upholstered "seats arranged in a circular order, and above them ... spacious galleries." The Boston Academy of Music occupied the Odeon in the 1830s and 1840sBoston Academy of Music. Annual Report. 1836, 1844 Notable events at the Odeon included "the first performance in Boston of a Beethoven symphony."
Events
1830s Samuel A. Elliot opening address Joseph Story "on the life and professional character of the late Chief Justice Marshall" William Apess lecture James Madison memorial William Ellery Channing lectureSponsored by the Massachusetts Temperance Society. Larry A. Carlson. "Bronson Alcott's 'Journal for 1837' (Part One)." Studies in the American Renaissance, (1981), pp. 27-132 Charles Zeuner concert Edward Everett lecture A.E. Grimké lectureLarry A. Carlson. "Bronson Alcott's 'Journal for 1838' (Part One)." Studies in the American Renaissance, (1993), pp. 161-244 Samuel J. May lecture Ralph Waldo Emerson lecture Society for the Prevention of Pauperism meeting
1840s Musical ConventionThe Musical Magazine (Boston) no.38, June 6, 1840 Boston Children's Friend Society fundraiser Massachusetts Temperance Union meeting Boston Brigade Band concertBoston Daily Atlas, Feb. 16, 1843 George Lunt presentationGeorge Lunt. Culture: a poem delivered before the Mercantile Library Association, at the Odeon, in Boston, October 3, 1843. Boston, W. D. Ticknor & Company, 1843. Edgar Allan Poe readingMeyers, Jeffrey. Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy. New York: Cooper Square Press, 1992.
References
Further reading
Michael Broyles. "Music and Class Structure in Antebellum Boston." Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 451–493