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. 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 1840s Notable events at the Odeon included "the first performance in Boston of a Beethoven symphony."
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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 lecture
Charles Zeuner concert
Edward Everett lecture
A.E. Grimké lecture
Samuel J. May lecture
Ralph Waldo Emerson lecture
Society for the Prevention of Pauperism meeting
1840s
Musical Convention
Boston Children's Friend Society fundraiser
Massachusetts Temperance Union meeting
Boston Brigade Band concert
George Lunt presentation
Edgar Allan Poe reading