Just when you thought no one understood...

#1 · October 26, 2003, 7:37 pm

Posted by: wjelb75trb5 <wjelb75trb5@...>

The following is from Time Magazine's article on the new Walt Disney Concert Hall for the LA Philharmonic:

'Maybe the most important test of a hall's acoustics is in its ability to transmit bass resonance. "The sound on which the rest of the orchestra's sonority can rest", is what [Musical Director, Esa-Pekka] Salonen calls it. In June, he says, when the full orchestra first tried out the place in a rehearsal of Mozart's Jupiter Symphony, "the bass players all had this mad grin on their faces." [Architect Frank] Gehry was sitting out in the auditorium. "One of the bass players looked at me," the architect says, "and gave me this big thumbs up. That's when I knew it was all O.K." '

If any of you Southern Californians get a chance to verify this for yourselves, let us know what you think.

Blessings all,

Walt