Harvard Professor Wallace Clement Sabine helped plan the hall ... "It is the most noble of American concert halls." Concertgebouw is a shoebox hall with 1,974 seats. It opened in 1888.

"With the objective criteria of today, one can safely plan for a hall that would ... Still, for a ranking of concert halls acoustics, the best source is subjective evaluation.

Birmingham’s Symphony Hall opened in 1991, and has been critically acclaimed as Britain’s finest concert hall ... the hall among the three best chamber music venues in Austria: Die Welt ...

courtesy of our annual Best of Phoenix issue. And if you’re interested in seeing what upcoming shows are happening at each of these venues, visit the Phoenix New Times concert calendar.