Art,Music and History stops in Columbus. (Washington, Rhine: house, purchase) - Columbus, GA - Georgia (GA) - City-Data Forum

Columbuskidd92 · 09-09-2012, 10:42 AM

The largest art and history museum in Georgia and one of the largest museums in the Southeast, the Columbus Museum welcomes visitors from all over the world.

The Museum is particularly known for its concentration on American art and the history of the region. Visitors can trace the development of the Chattahoochee Valley area in Chattahoochee Legacy, a regional history gallery with its own award-winning film.

In addition to the 15 permanent collection and traveling exhibition galleries of fine and decorative art, the Museum offers many educational opportunities, such as classes, free programs and a space for student art in the Pound Gallery. Visitors can also investigate a kaleidoscope of color and texture in Transformations, a hands-on discovery gallery for children.

The attractive Museum Shop has a variety of special gifts that you can purchase to remember your visit. The collections, exhibitions and educational programs are all designed to help visitors learn, enrich their lives and enjoy their visit!

RiverCenter for the Performing Arts is located in the historic district of Uptown Columbus. The RiverCenter is the centerpiece of the city’s new arts and entertainment district. This 246,000 sq. ft. complex contains the 2,000-seat Bill Heard Theatre, the 450-seat Legacy Hall and the 220-seat Studio Theatre. The Columbus State University Schwob School of Music is located in the complex as well.

The theatre has hosted a variety of world-renowned performers, including classical artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and Jessie Norman; popular entertainers such as Bill Cosby, David Copperfield and Wynonna; international ensembles such as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Moscow Boys Choir and Cirque Éloize; and national touring productions such as the Broadway shows Chicago, Miss Saigon and Cats.

The center’s second largest performance space, Legacy Hall, has 450 seats and an elegant ambiance that includes orchestra and parterre levels and a balcony that wraps entirely around the stage. Walls are covered in a textured clay tile, and the balcony and parterre fascias are covered in rich cherry wood. From the ceiling a series of light, colored wood acoustical reflectors support striking copper chandeliers. Known for its perfect acoustics and impressive Jordan Concert Organ, the hall is a popular venue with many noted musicians. Already, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, violinist Robert McDuffie, organist Olivier Latry and others have sung the hall’s praises after performing on its stage.
Legacy Hall and the facility’s 150-seat, black-box Studio Theater also provide rehearsal and performance space for the Columbus State University Schwob School of Music. The music school’s classrooms, studios, rehearsal rooms and practice rooms also are located at RiverCenter.

The Springer is one of America's most vibrant professional theatre companies with a popular Mainstage Series, an innovative second-space series called Studio II, an Academy Series featuring some of this region's most talented student actors and a ten-state regional touring program called Springer Theatre On Tour. It is also the home of one of the nation's finest training schools for young actors, the Springer Theatre Academy.

Springer Opera House, the State Theatre of Georgia and a leading Southern cultural institution for 136 years. As you stroll from the gaslit street into the splendid Edwardian Grand Lobby, you can easily imagine the Nineteenth Century merchants, tradesmen, farmers, steamboat passengers and arts patrons streaming into the theatre eager to catch their first glimpse of Oscar Wilde, Ma Rainey or Lillie Langtry.

This spectacular American treasure was built by Francis Joseph Springer, an immigrant from Alsace who moved to Columbus before the Civil War. Springer became prosperous in the grocery business but had brought his love of theatre, music and dance from his native Rhine River Valley to the burgeoning Chattahoochee River Valley and dreamt of building a European style theatre here on the banks of this great Southern waterway.

The Springer Opera House opened February 21, 1871 and soon became nationally known as the finest house between Washington and New Orleans.

Columbus1984 · 09-09-2012, 03:23 PM

The RiverCenter is by far one of the best venues in the Southeast. None of the 2nd tier cities have anything that is close to that place. Truly a jewel for Columbus.

Columbuskidd92 · 09-09-2012, 03:57 PM

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The RiverCenter is by far one of the best venues in the Southeast. None of the 2nd tier cities have anything that is close to that place. Truly a jewel for Columbus.

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The RiverCenter is by far one of the best venues in the Southeast.

I agree. A true jewel for Columbus and Georgia.