AMSTERDAM (JTA) — There’s a huge pipe organ where the Torah ark should be, but otherwise this city’s Royal Concert Hall looks, sounds and feels like a synagogue for one night each year.

A public candle-lighting is a major part of Amsterdam’s annual Hanukkah concerts, held at the city’s Royal Concert Hall, or Concertgebouw. Spurred by a Jewish immigrant from New York who ...

Amsterdam is the capital with a thousand faces ... the Concertgebouw is there for you. This concert hall, renowned for its exceptional acoustics, hosts hundreds of classical, jazz and contemporary ...

"Even the first time that I conducted there, I was struck by its acoustics," Bruno Walter said about the hall. "It is the most noble of American concert halls." Concertgebouw is a shoebox hall ...

Among the first musicians to play in the upgraded hall are Austrian-Iranian cellist Kian Soltani and the 23 members of the Amsterdam Sinfonietta. The concert – part of the Esplanade’s Classics ...