Symphony Hall sits at 75 North 2nd Street, between North 3rd Street and East Washington Street, here in downtown Phoenix. This multi-purpose performing arts venue, part of the Phoenix Civic Plaza and bounded to the north by the West Building of the Phoenix Convention Center, has served as a major stage since it was built from 1969 to 1972. Designed by Charles Luckman in the Brutalist style, the hall was completed in 1972 and renovated in 2004.
It is the home of the Phoenix Symphony, Arizona Opera, and Ballet Arizona, and hosts Broadway touring companies, a variety of dance productions, and appearances by popular entertainers. When it opened it quickly became the home of the People's Pops Concert, founded in 1970 by Theresa Elizabeth Perez, Music Coordinator for the City of Phoenix from 1969 to 1983; Theresa’s Children's Opera Series — Help, Help, the Globolinks!, Noye's Fludde, and Beauty is Fled — were also presented here. Pause and imagine orchestras tuning, dancers taking their marks, and opera voices filling the Brutalist shell Luckman designed.
Notice the hall itself, the Civic Plaza that surrounds it, and the West Building of the Phoenix Convention Center just to the north.