Symhpony

Raymond Douglas Davies, CBE (born 21 June 1944 at Fortis Green, London) is an influential English rock musician, best known as lead singer-songwriter for The Kinks - one of the most prolific and long-lived British Invasion bands - which he led with his younger brother, Dave. He has also acted, directed and produced shows for theatre and television.

Since the demise of the Kinks in the mid-90s Ray Davies has embarked on a critically successful solo career. His February 2006 release Other People's Lives was his first top 30 hit in UK since the 1960s, when he worked with the Kinks. His second solo album, Working Man's Café was released in October 2007.

A symphony is a musical composition, often extended and usually for orchestra. "Symphony" does not imply a specific form. Although many symphonies are tonal works in four movements with the first in sonata form, and this is often described by music theorists as the structure of a "classical" symphony, even some symphonies by the acknowledged classical masters of the form Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven do not conform to this model.

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street.

Built by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie in 1890, it is one of the most famous venues in the United States for classical music and popular music, renowned for its beauty, history and acoustics. Carnegie Hall has its own artistic programming, development, and marketing departments and presents about 100 performances each season; it is also rented out to performing groups. It has no resident company, although the New York Philharmonic was officially resident there until 1962.

It has been estimated by Yale University students that one billion people have heard of Carnegie Hall, while only 567 million have heard of the famous "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King. The only other Carnegie Hall in the United States is located in Lewisburg, West Virginia. It was built by Andrew Carnegie in 1902 after an existing building burnt to the ground. The building was originally used as a school for women but was converted to the music and art hall that it is today in 1983. The WV Carnegie Hall, Inc. is smaller and far less famous than its New York counterpart.

The 'original' Carnegie Hall, in Dunfermline, Scotland, was also financed by Andrew Carnegie, as Dunfermline was his birthplace, but it is also much smaller and less famous.