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Map of Building
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Virtual Tour
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Concert Hall
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Eisenhower Theater
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Family Theater
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KC Jazz Club
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Opera House
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Terrace Theater
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Theater Lab
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Hall of States
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Hall of Nations
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North Grand Foyer
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South Grand Foyer
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JFK Bust
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JFK Quotes on the Arts
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River Terrace
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States Gallery
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Nations Gallery
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East Terrace (Roof)
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West Terrace (Roof)
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Golden Circles Lounge
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Israeli Lounge
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African Lounge
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African Lounge West
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KC Café
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Gift Shop (level A)
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And on March 8, 1979, as a joint undertaking with the Library of Congress, the Performing Arts Library (PAL) opened for public service with two hundred visitors on opening day. The PAL maintained approximately five-thousand reference books, including directories, encyclopedias and dictionaries, histories and biographies, indices, abstracts, handbooks and manuals, annals and chronologies, and over 450 periodicals and newspapers. The PAL served more than seventeen thousand visitors, students, and arts professionals annually. The PAL remained open as an official library, jointly with the Library of Congress, until 1994. Following a fifteen-year relationship, a decision was made by both entities that the Library of Congress would discontinue its support effective October 1, 1994. In September 1994, the PAL was officially renamed the Education Resource Center (ERC). The ERC was used by artists, staff, volunteers, and the general public for a variety of reasons. During its life span, several thousand patrons visited the ERC while the space was used as a reading room. On March 12, 2003, the space formerly known as the ERC was officially designated the Terrace Gallery, which is now home to the Kennedy Center Jazz Club.

Coming to the Terrace Gallery :

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KC Jazz Club: Maurice Brown Effect

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Discovery Artist
Maurice Brown Effect
A 2002 alumnus of the Kennedy Center's Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead program, Maurice Brown is "one of the most exciting young trumpeters in jazz--be it New Orleans or New York" (DownBeat), who is "a triple-threat artist, equally effective as virtuoso trumpeter, versatile composer, and supremely confident bandleader" (The Chicago Tribune). Exciting the ears of bebop enthusiasts and hip-hoppers alike, Brown's passionate and improvisational rhythms have electrified the music industry. Innovation is the key to his soulful melodies, which have graced both legend Aretha Franklin and urban legend Talib Kweli's versatile recordings.