Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Providence, R.I., January 10--Crafty Coney Weliand's shift may not make him as famous as Lou Boudreau yet it is apparently yielding good results. But it almost didn't tonight at the Rhode Island Auditorium as the Crimson barely slipped past Providence College...
...Catfish Row. At the opening last week in the huge auditorium of the Palace of Cultural and Industrial Cooperatives, the Stars and Stripes flew beside the Hammer and Sickle while the band played The Star-Spangled Banner and the Anthem of the Soviet Union. The house was packed, and dapper Lorenzo Fuller brought it down before the curtain went up by saying, "Dobro Pozhalovat Druzya -Welcome, friends...
...acoustics-conscious as never before since the advent of hifi, Kresge Auditorium is becoming something of a test case...
These are problems that every architect of a music auditorium has had to consider and solve, often by trial and error (many older halls have adequate acoustics because of such accidents of general design as coffered ceilings, panels, statuary, friezes, all of which helped to diffuse sound). But the chief factor that gives modern halls their characteristic clarity and brilliance is close control of reverberation, i.e., the prolongation of sound...
...made up his mind about Kresge Auditorium. On concert nights, Bolt and his associates may be seen busily picking up unpremeditated opinion from critics and public about the hall's acoustics. Orchestra men generally like it, because they can hear each other as the sound bounces off the "clouds" (in most halls, a violinist hears little beyond the string section, a trumpeter hardly anything except the brasses). So far, the novelty of being able to hear so clearly has convinced audiences, too, that Kresge is an acoustic marvel. But if, as seems likely, it becomes the acoustic model...