Links to Acoustics and Music Resources

Rooms

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Rooms: Performance spaces

Duke University halls: Theatre Operations Information click on "more information" for each hall, detailed technical information is available for some.

Atlanta Symphony Hall (for information on planned new hall, click on "Symphony Center," then "Design," and then "Concert Chamber")

Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, home of the New York Philharmonic.

Benaroya Hall, home of the Seattle Symphony; includes the 2500-seat S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium and the 540-seat Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall. This is the most recent hall with acoustical design by Cyril Harris. Also see this link to the site of the architectural firm and this one to the orchestra members' site.

Carnegie Hall, New York [includes a virtual visit, and a time lapse illustration of how the Zankel Hall (Jaffe-Holden acoustical consultants) seating can be reconfigured; look under "The Basics."]

Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco [click on "How to Prepare," then "Hall Information"]

Duke Chapel virtual tour

Jones Hall, Houston. (not much information)

Kennedy Center, Washington.

Metropolitan Opera House, New York.

Meyerhoff Symphony Hall, Baltimore. Completed 1982.

Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas. A major collaboration between architect I. M. Pei and Artec acoustical consultants. See the virtual visit.

Orchestra Hall, Chicago. Renovated 1997, Kirkegaard Associates acoustical consultants.

Philadelphia Orchestra and its new Regional Performing Arts Center, acoustical design by Artec.

Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis

Royal Albert Hall, London: some photos and a plan.

Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood, Artec acoustical consultants [also see Boston Symphony homepage]

Severance Hall, Cleveland. Current renovation project includes reworking and relocating pipe organ largely isolated by acoustical shell installed in 1958, Jaffe-Holden acoustical consultants.

South Bank Centre, London [Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room]

Sydney Opera House (select "venues")

Symphony Hall, Boston (also Tanglewood rooms). Don't miss the virtual visit, in the form of a steerable, zoomable view from the center of the hall.

Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, completed in 1987.

Teatro alla Scala, Milan. [Great virtual tour, includes an English version .]

Wolf Trap Farm Park, Virginia

Last modified and all links verified 22 June 2007.