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Article: Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall Break Off Their Engagement
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- The Washington Post
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- October 8, 2003
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The merger of the New York Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall, which
was announced in June amid considerable fanfare, was summarily called
off late yesterday afternoon.
The much-heralded union between America's oldest orchestra and its
most prestigious concert hall -- announced for the 2006-07 season --
would have created a gigantic nonprofit corporation with an endowment
of around $350 million. But there were problems from the beginning,
both legal (Lincoln Center had indicated that it would seek to hold
the Philharmonic, its tenant for the past 41 years, to a contract
that ran until 2011) and aesthetic (the merger would have greatly
diminished the variety of programming at Carnegie Hall).
And ...