York appearances while on tour. Its successor, Live from Here, hosted by Chris Thile, now appears most frequently in the Town Hall. The venue was announced as the home of Live from Here for its 2019-2020 season. Other notable events Recordings Over the years, several musical performances have been recorded at Town Hall, including: 1947: One Night Stand – The Town Hall Concert 1947, with Sarah Vaughan and Lester Young 1954: Billy Taylor Trio at Town Hall, by Billy Taylor, Earl May, and Charlie Smith 1959: The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall, by Thelonious Monk 1959: Sammy Davis Jr. at Town Hall, by Sammy Davis Jr. 1959: Nina Simone at Town Hall, by Nina Simone Speeches Various activists, politicians, artists, and other speakers have long preferred Town Hall for speeches, even before the America's Town Meeting of the Air era. The Town Hall's opening week in January 1921 included a speech by suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt and General John J. Pershing. Lady Astor, the first woman to serve in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, spoke at Town Hall in its early years, as did social reformer Jane Addams. The authors Edna Ferber, Henry James, Thomas Mann, and Carl Sandburg have also spoken at Town Hall, as well as politicians including U.S. presidents Calvin Coolidge, Theodore Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson, and British prime minister Winston Churchill. Naval officer Richard E. Byrd spoke about military issues, educator Booker T. Washington talked about racial issues, and labor leader Samuel Gompers discussed labor. Notable speeches have included a lecture on November 13, 1921, birth control advocate Margaret Sanger was arrested and carried off the stage after attempting to speak to a mixed-sex audience about contraception. Anarchist Emma Goldman spoke at Town Hall while in the U.S. on a visa preventing political lectures. In 1960, former U.S. first lady Eleanor Roosevelt spoke at Town Hall to promote Adlai E. Stevenson II's presidential campaign, and an Africa Freedom Day rally was held. Town Hall also hosted what The New York Times described as "musical lectures", including an event in which Thomas Beecham spoke while playing the piano. When America's Town Meeting of the Air was broadcast from 1935 to 1956, each episode generally included a set of brief remarks on a predetermined topic from four speakers, followed by short questions from audience members. George Denny moderated the discussions. The first episodes from the 1930s