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The Hotel Alexander was located on the coner of McDowell and Ninth Street. Visiting black celebrities stayed there and it served as a center for the social life of the community. The Hotel Alexander provided a key outlet for black musicians to…

This is a detail from a photograph of the east block of South Tryon Street between Fourth and Third Streets showing the Opera House. The Opera House was a wide brick front gable building with businesses downstairs and an auditorium upstairs. The…

Photograph of the Charlotte Symphony performing in the 1930's. Until 1955 the symphony performed in school auditoriums.

Inside page from Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Tenth Anniversary Program, 1931-1941, showing the founder and director, Guillermo S. de Roxlo.

Inside page from Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Tenth Anniversary Program, 1931-1941. This black and white photograph shows the audience from the stage.

Photograph of Charlotte's first Y.M.C.A. building which was built on South Tryon Street between Third Street and Fourth Street in 1888. The auditorium was in the rear of the building and was known as Association Hall. On close examination you can…

Chattie Hatty Leeper was first black female DJ in North Carolina. In this photo she is reporting the news on WGIV in 1963.

This photograph was taken on November 12th 1918 outside what is now known as the Dowd House on Charlotte's West Side of town. It shows Colonel Macomb, staff and officers with the Paris Symphony at Camp Greene on Tri-Color Day. Sydenham B. Alexander…

This photograph shows conductor Don Richardson playing a violin. Richardson came to Charlotte in 1900. He had a large impact on local music due to his position as the conductor for the house orchestra at the Academy of Music and his role as a music…

Ernie K-Doe performs his hit song " Sittin on My Ya-ya, Waiting for My La-La" to a packed house at The Park Center.