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"Inside the building there is one concert hall with a large concert organ, and the whole interior has been left as it was 30 years ago, so the interior is being
by keithpeter 9y ago
"Inside the building there is one concert hall with a large concert organ, and the whole interior has been left as it was 30 years ago, so the interior is being cared for, but it still looks like a socialist museum."
Hold on... the existence of a concert hall for the performance of classical music equipped with a fairly serious looking organ does not strike me as being especially Soviet. For example, my home venue...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_Hall,_Birmingham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_Hall,_Birmingham
The building described in the OA looks wonderful! They should capitalise on it!
- privong 9y ago> the existence of a concert hall for the performance of classical music equipped with a fairly serious looking organ does not strike me as being especially Soviet. I took the "still looks like a socialist museum" to be referring to the second part of the sentence: "the whole interior has been left as it was 30 years ago".
- TheOtherHobbes 9y agoThe Soviet Union was always big on culture - often for nationalistic reasons. After Stalinism subsided, the USSR spent a small fortune promoting Russian culture, esp. classical music, at home and abroad. E.g. Warsaw in Poland was "gifted" a huge Palace of Culture and Science, which included a concert hall which was used for classical and pop concerts.
- merdreubu 9y ago>does not strike me as being especially Soviet Czechoslovakia was not part of the Soviet Union.
- keithpeter 9y agoI stand corrected and reminded.
- Markoff 9y agoyou should check out also UFO bridge in same city, interesting commie architecture and right next to it Hong Kong residential area of central Europe