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153: 140: 36: 160: 396:, the hall, which occupies an entire city block, features a white Italian marble exterior with eight-story tall columns. The interior includes a basement and a sub-basement which houses a rehearsal room. The lobby is dominated by a 60-foot (18 m) high ceiling featuring a massive hanging bronze sculpture by 388:
entitled 'Ode to the Temple of Sound'). Construction of the hall was underwritten by Houston Endowment, Inc., a foundation endowed by Jones and his wife Mary Gibbs Jones. Upon completion, the hall was donated to the city, and today is operated by the Houston First Corporation.
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entitled "Gemini II". The inside of the concert hall itself is unique in that the ceiling is made of 800 hexagonal segments which can be raised or lowered to change the acoustics of the hall. The segments can actually be lowered enough to close the upper balcony, so the
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and Society for the Performing Arts. Jones Hall is also frequently rented as a venue for contemporary pop musicians and other performers and is estimated to draw over 400,000 audience members yearly.
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therefore fluctuates from about 2,300 with the balcony covered to 2,911 with the balcony open. The building won the 1967
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and Houstonian. (For the Hall's opening concert a special work was commissioned of the American composer
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Performance hall in Houston & home of the Houston Orchestra & Society for Performing Arts
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Officially completed on October 2, 1966, at the cost of $ 7.4 million, it is named after
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29°45′39″N 95°21′54″W / 29.760876°N 95.364994°W / 29.760876; -95.364994
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