The Boston Music Hall was an American concert venue active between 1962 and 1983, later renamed Wang Center For The Performing Arts after a substantial donation from An Wang (1920—1990), a Chinese-American computer engineer and entrepreneur. (Another venue on Winter Street, also named Boston Music Hall, was active between 1852 and 1900 as the Boston Symphony Orchestra's original home before Symphony Hall; after BSO relocated, the Hall re-opened as Orpheum Theatre. However, no credits for the earlier "Boston Music Hall" exist since it predated the era of commercial recordings and radio broadcasts.)
The venue originated in 1925 as the Metropolitan Theatre on Tremont Street in Boston's Theatre District, designed by architect Clarence H. Blackall (1857—1942). After embracing a newly established Boston Ballet in 1962, the Theater was promptly renamed Music Hall. In the next two decades, it became one of the cornerstones of Boston's music scene, hosting numerous performances by The Metropolitan Opera, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Bolshoi Ballet and Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet, and concerts by a broad range of prolific rock and pop musicians, from Santana, Bob Marley & The Wailers, David Bowie, and Bob Dylan to Aerosmith, The Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, and Genesis. In the early 1980s, the Boston Music Hall briefly converted to a non-profit "Metropolitan Center."
