RE: [ChurchBass] Just when you thought no one understood...
Posted by: esq53 <esq53@...>
I had jury duty out there a year or so ago and watched them building that thing… it really is incredible. One of the other bass players at my church has been doing some electrical work there and said that it's really amazing inside… I don't know when I'll get out there for a concert…
gs
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Gene Simons - esq53@earthlink.net
Everyone lives life on the edge, some just have better balance.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Walt Everly [mailto:wjelb75trb5@juno.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 4:37 PM
To: churchbass@welovegod.org
Subject: [ChurchBass] Just when you thought no one understood...
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