"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...
> 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".
Very cool! I've been working on getting the short wave radio working on my boat and one of the stations I've been excited to tune has been radio Slovak, neat to see their headquarters here. reminds me somewhat of this building near IAD airport - http://bit.ly/2oBIzpK
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 18.7 ms ] threadHold 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
The building described in the OA looks wonderful! They should capitalise on it!
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".
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.
Czechoslovakia was not part of the Soviet Union.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bigsite_Tokyo2012.JPG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_pavilion_at_Expo_2010