Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Manhattan, New York City. It is one of the most significant venues for classical as well as popular music in the United States, known not just for its beauty and history but also for its fine acoustics. The Main Hall is enormously tall, and visitors to the top balcony must climb 105 steps. All but the top level can be reached by elevator. It can currently hold an audience of 2,804 in five levels of seating. The Main Hall is greatly admired for its warm, live acoustics, and it is commonplace for critics to express regret that the New York Philharmonic plays at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center and not in its former home in Carnegie Hall.

The late Isaac Stern once remarked. "It takes what you do and makes it larger than life" The Main Hall is now officially called the Isaac Stern Auditorium. Most of the greatest performers of classical music since the time the hall was built have performed in the Main Hall, and its lobbies are adorned with signed portraits and memorabilia.