John Dowell is Museum Supervisor of the famed Ryman Auditorium in Nashville TN, which in addition to the thousands of music and drama productions and personal appearances it has hosted, has for most of the last sixty years been the home of the Grand Ole Opry radio show.
John Dowell, Museum Supervisor of the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN, tells the history of the storied venue from its founding in the nineteenth century as a tabernacle to its present use as a concert venue featuring the live stage performance of the Grand Ole Opry radio show. He also shares some stories of famous performers who have played the Ryman, and discusses the acoustic properties of the space.
John Dowell, Museum Supervisor of the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN, gives a history of the famed theater from its founding in the nineteenth century to the present day, including appearances by people like Theodore Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Rachmaninoff and Roy Rogers, as well as the country legends who appeared on the Grand Ole Opry, first broadcast from the Ryman in 1943.
John Dowell, Museum Supervisor of the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN, discusses the venue’s acoustic properties, which are reputed to be second in the USA only to Salt Lake City’s Mormon Tabernacle.
John Dowell, Museum Supervisor of the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN, discusses the venue’s acoustic properties, which are reputed to be second in quality in the USA only to Salt Lake City’s Mormon Tabernacle.
John Dowell, Museum Supervisor of the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN, continues his history of the famed venue with the story of its building and its conversion to a theatre, and discusses some of the unique features that were built into it to accommodate the radio broadcast needs of the Grand Ole Opry.
