The Academy of Music is a historic

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building located in

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. The three-story theater was built 1904–05 in the

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with a Neoclassical interior. It was designed by

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. It is one of the only surviving legitimate theaters of the turn-of-the-century period in

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. Some of the more notable European and American names to appear on its stage included

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Alma Gluck Alma Gluck (May 11, 1884October 27, 1938) was a Romanian-born American lyric soprano. Biography Gluck was born as Reba Feinsohn to a Jewish family in Iași, Romania, the daughter of Zara and Leon Feinsohn. Gluck moved to the United States at a ...

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, John Drew and Mrs. Patrick Campbell. an
''Accompanying photo''
In 2008, the Lynchburg Academy of Fine Arts received a $245,000 earmark from Representative

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from the Community Development Fund of the

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, for renovations to the building. It was listed on the

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in 1969.

References

External links

Lynchburg Online websiteAcademy of Music, Main & Sixth Streets, Lynchburg, VA:
1 photo, 1 data page, and 1 photo caption page, at

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