- Iris Derke, general director and co-founder of the music production company DCINY, took Business Insider behind the scenes of New York City's iconic Carnegie Hall.
- The venue's backstage has multiple rooms that give performers space to relax and tune their instruments.
- There are television sets and schedules around the building to help artists know where they need to be at all times.
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From Tchaikovsky to Stravinsky, from Duke Ellington to the Beatles, music icons of all stripes solidified their legend with a performance at New York City's Carnegie Hall.
Since business magnate Andrew Carnegie commissioned the hall's construction in the late 1800s, viewers have seen historical performances from thousands of artists and speakers. What viewers couldn't see, however, was what the hall looked like backstage, where famous people wandered the halls in-between their performance.
Until now.
Business Insider recently shadowed Iris Derke, the co-founder and general director of the production company DCINY, as she went about planning a musical performance at the fabled hall. The process can start years in advance, and takes communication and planning across the country (and sometimes in different continents).
The hall's backstage primarily holds rooms for performers to relax and socialize. There are television sets and schedules around the building to help artists know where they need to be at all times, as well as paintings and photographs depicting iconic performances across the years.
Here's what it's like to go behind the stage at Carnegie Hall.