The first inauguratory concert at the new Steinway Hall. Dutch maestro Willem Mengelberg conducts “Steinway String Orchestra”, consisting of thirty five musicians from the New York Philharmonic. Baritone Frazer Gange and pianist Josef Hofmann perform. Mr. Charles Pike Sawyer recalls from the stage the opening of the original Steinway Hall almost exactly fifty nine years ago, on October 31, 1866. Ernest Urchs recites a poem to the new hall, composed by S.W. Gerhart. Pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff with his wife, as well as conductor and music educator Frank Damrosch, are in the audience. Radio Corporation of America, as well as WJS, New York, WGY, Schenectady, and WRC, Washington, broadcast the concert.