Mary B. Duke Biddle Music Building

Building Description

Biddle Music Building is the home of Duke’s superb music department. As soon as you enter you feel a mystical aura as you look around the spacious lobby and hear the fountain on the level below. Biddle offers a great place for students to practice their specific instrument or just study in a quiet and relaxing environment.

The Biddle music building is located on Duke’s East Campus behind Alspaugh and Pegram residence halls. It is the main facility of study for Music major program. With several dance rooms, music practice rooms, a music synthesizer lab, music library, and music history display, Biddle is a favorite spot for Duke's most talented musicians and performers.

History

The Mary Duke Biddle music building was built in the mid 1970’s and is named after one of Duke’s greatest benefactors. Mary Duke Biddle was one of Washington Duke’s daughters and started the Mary Duke Biddle foundation near the end of her life to raise money for the visual and performing arts. Because of her efforts, which raised over 30 million dollars, the music building was named after her.

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Address
105 Memorial Drive, Durham, NC 27708
Bathrooms
The building has a large lobby on the first floor which is overlooked by an opening in the center of the second floor lobby. There is a male and female restroom in both floor’s lobbies.
Musical Facilities
There are twenty practice rooms with grand pianos, four organ practice rooms, several harpsichord practice rooms, a computer music studio with various MIDI synthesizers and Macintosh computers, ensemble rehearsal studios, and a large rehearsal hall. Public performances take place in either the newly refurbished 900-seat Baldwin Auditorium or the more intimate Nelson Music Room. Student performances frequently take place in the new refurbished Bone Hall. The building also houses the Music Library with over 85,000 books, scores, journals, and microfilms. The Media Center, with some 20,000 sound recordings and a growing collection of video tapes, adjoins a state-of-the-art audio facility which can accommodate 32 listeners.
Vending Machines
First Floor

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