New Concert Hall Set To Open At St. Paul's Ordway Center

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Downtown St. Paul's new concert hall opens Sunday at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts.

A free community open house will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. to launch "Rock the Ordway," a three-week music celebration. Gov. Mark Dayton and St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman are scheduled to attend the ribbon cutting.

Performances will be held throughout the day by Broadway Songbook, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Project Opera and the Ancia Saxophone Quartet, presented by The Schubert Club.

The concert hall has 1,100 seats and was designed specifically for presenting acoustic and electro-acoustic music in an intimate setting. No seat is more than 90 feet from the stage.

Groundbreaking took place in spring 2013 to replace the 300-seat McKnight Theatre.

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