It also runs educational programs, and can be rented for events such as: weddings, pre and post-concert receptions, meetings and retreats, corporate and cultivation dinners, and photo and film shoots.

[3] The informal musical performances they hosted evolved into the beginning of Caramoor's current offerings in 1945, and their collection of Renaissance-era and Chinese artworks, some rare, is on display throughout the estate.

Honoring the legacy of the Rosen Family’s creation of a unique haven for culture, artists and the arts in the early 20th Century, the music room to this day hosts a variety of events.

Acoustic Distinction’s team attended several on-site meetings and collected sound measurements during multiple performances in the room.

The team analyzed data to evaluate the Music Room’s acoustical attributes and provided programming assistance to architects and engineers.

Recommendations included the addition of retractable acoustic curtains to enable the room to be adjusted or ‘tuned’ to the type and size of the performing ensemble.

The area is primarily residential, with houses on similarly large lots amidst wooded, gently rolling terrain.

[1] The Caramoor estate became a center for the arts and music following the death of the son of owners Walter and Lucie Rosen during World War 2.

The Rosen House is a stucco building rising two stories a poured concrete foundation with a red tiled roof in a variety of asymmetrical gable and hip configurations and irregular fenestration.

Originally the living room, the furniture has been moved to the west side and removable seating installed on movable risers.

[5] Its art includes a 16th-century Florentine cassapanca, an extensive collection of Urbino majolica, a 13th-century head of Guan Yin, a Lucas Cranach the Elder painting and tin-enameled terra cotta reliefs from the studio of Andrea della Robbia.

A large tent roof is in place to shelter the audience, and a restroom wing similar to the Rosen House projects from the west end.

He was well-educated, developing an early interest in music and art, and graduated from Harvard three years after entering it at a young age.

In 1914 he married Lucie Bigelow Dodge, a woman who had grown up in an affluent New Jersey family and shared his passion for music and art.

[9] The Depression forced them to reconsider those plans, and instead they slowly remodeled the existing farm buildings on the site into the current estate, which at one point was 117 acres (47 ha).

Architect Christian Rosborg is credited with the design, closely supervised by the Rosens, whose townhouse on Manhattan's East Side had been redone in a French Renaissance style before they moved in.

Four years later, when their only son Walter died in World War II while serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force, they decided to dedicate the remainder of their own lives to preserving Caramoor's musical legacy.

Architect Mott B. Schmidt designed a new wing in 1974 to house rooms from the Rosens' New York City apartment and expand the art collection on display.

Walter and Lucie Rosen met Theremin at a soirée in 1929 in New York City and were impressed by the inventor and his ground-breaking instrument.

Made from a wooden box with two metal antennae, it is played by the movement of hands through their electromagnetic fields without any physical contact.

The Rosens offered Professor Theremin the use of one of their three brownstones on West 54th Street, New York, at a greatly reduced rent, as his studio and residence.

Rosen wove with eloquent hands the magical-seeing spell,” the New York World-Telegram wrote, “and the theremin responded to her summons with some of the most strictly musical sounds it has yet produced in our concert rooms.” The New York Times described how “the instrument got out of gear and its inventor, Leon Theremin, was called onto the stage to set it right ... Mrs. Rosen was in command of its resources all evening.

She played to enthusiastic reviews in Naples, Rome, Venice, Zurich, Munich, Budapest, Hamburg, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris, and London.

Lucie also continued performing in the United States giving numerous concerts in New York City and throughout the Northeast, again to rave reviews.

“She has a very curly blond hair which fuzzes out into a wide halo around her delicate and ethereal face ... her robe de style evening gowns are said to be designed by Mr. Rosen.”(February 3, 1936) By late 1938 the Walter Rosen was reconsidering his support for Leon Theremin.

While other theremin performers preferred to play classical music, Lucie encouraged composers to write music specifically for the theremin and she commissioned many works by such composers as Edward Mates, Ricardo Valente, Jenö Szanto, Jenö Takács, Mortimer Browning, John Haussermann, and Bohuslav Martinü.

When her beloved Walter died in 1951, Lucie dedicated herself to establishing the Caramoor Music Festival, determined to see it grow and thrive.

Caramoor remains a destination for theremin scholars, historians, and artists who find our archives of Lucie's correspondence and original scores to be a valuable and comprehensive resource for their research.

During the Caramoor Summer Music Festival, on Thursdays through Sundays from June to August, jazz, bluegrass and popular artists have performed as well.

[16] The facilities can be rented out for events such as corporate retreats and photo shoots;[17] weddings are a particularly popular use, with The Knot having chosen Caramoor as one of its favorite places for the ceremony and reception.