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The original was posted on /r/washingtondc by /u/Drew_Tronvig on 2025-08-31 21:51:52+00:00.

Is there any reason why the National Symphony Orchestra (or a reconstituted National Symphony Orchestra 2.0) couldn’t move back to the DAR Constitution Hall, where it played until, I think, 1971? A quick look at their public calendar just shows nothing but 5 or 6 comedy shows a month. It also has 3,700 seats, versus 2,500 at the Kennedy Center. I’d guess that acoustic design in general has progressed a little in the last 50 years, but acoustics have been retrofitted at pretty much every symphony hall that had any weaknesses.

You’d think that they could arrange the move in time for the start of the 2026-2027 season, September 2026. They’d be out of the Kennedy Center for at least the last 2 years of the current regime, and who’s to say that things will get better after 2029?

To the extent that the NSO may have obligations entwined with the Kennedy Center, if the current iteration of the NSO is dispanded, an NSO 2.0 would be free to duplicate the long-term schedule and other obligations.