FILE - Sunlight illuminates portion of the marble level of the Grand Foyer astatine Severance Hall successful Cleveland connected Jan. 5, 2000. The Cleveland Orchestra volition person a $50 cardinal assistance from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation, the largest acquisition successful the past of the 103-year-old euphony organization. (AP Photo, File)

FILE - Sunlight illuminates portion of the marble level of the Grand Foyer astatine Severance Hall successful Cleveland connected Jan. 5, 2000. The Cleveland Orchestra volition person a $50 cardinal assistance from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation, the largest acquisition successful the past of the 103-year-old euphony organization. (AP Photo, File) (AP2000)

CLEVELAND – The Cleveland Orchestra volition person a $50 cardinal assistance from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation, the largest acquisition successful the past of the 103-year-old euphony organization.

The orchestra said Thursday that $31.5 cardinal volition beryllium dedicated to its endowment, the orchestra's fiscal instauration and supporting an opera and humanities festival.

Severance Hall, the orchestra's location since 1931 and named aft John L. Severance, volition beryllium renamed the Severance Music Center. The orchestra's show abstraction volition beryllium named the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Concert Hall. The halfway besides includes Reinberger Chamber Hall.

The acquisition is the largest successful the past of the 68-year-old Mandel Foundation.

“The musicians and audiences volition consciousness the benefits of the Mandel Foundation’s acquisition astir immediately, starting with the upgrades to the gathering which volition let america to proceed capturing video for our integer offerings,” euphony manager Franz Welser-Möst said successful a statement.

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Brothers Jack N. Mandel, Joseph C. Mandel and Morton L. Mandel purchaed an car parts concern from their uncle, Jacob Mandel, successful 1940 and formed Premier Automotive Supply Co., aboriginal Premier Industrial Corp.

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