On 1/30/2013 5:09 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> Having had some experience with designers (and one particularly interesting
> experience---one degree of separation from a FLW-trained architect), I can
> say with some degree of confidence that reality, when conflicting with
> design, will lose almost every time. Designers think of themselves as
> artists, and nothing should interfere with the expression of their art, even
> if it means computer monitors facing a window wall, or a music hall with the
> acoustics of a WWI battlefield. (Yes, I am using a very broad brush here and
> I know there are exceptions. It's just that my path seldom crosses the
> exceptions;.)
You have an outstanding exception, a very unusual performance space that sounds
quite good, relatively near you. The
small performance space at Bowdoin College is a converted swimming pool!. The
stage is at the deep end, with most seats
tiered down the slope from the shallow end, and a couple of rows of folding
chairs can be set up around at the top.
<http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/004045.shtml>
Now that I see what and who were involved in the design/remodel, I understand
why the sound was so good when I attended
a piano concert there in 2010.
Musical Interests Moose
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