Music Pagoda, Prospect Park

Bio

Musical performances have been a regular feature of Prospect Park summers since the park’s opening in 1867. Every spring, park workers made wooden bandstands by hand on Music Island and other locations. Deciding to provide a more permanent structure, the Brooklyn Park Commission planned a bandstand with a ceiling specifically constructed to act as a sounding board, to project music toward the Nethermead. The trees nearby were shaped into a grove to provide shade for the audience.

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