Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KRESGE AUDITORIUM...
Even before the museum closed for its renovation, Elliott had displayed a showman's flair for lively, avant-garde exhibitions. In the museum's auditorium, courageous Hartford patrons have been exposed to the underground films of Bruce Conner, the dances of Merce Cunningham, the electronic music of Karl-heinz Stockhausen. But Elliott does not think of himself as primarily an exhibitionist. "I think there are too many special exhibitions going on," says Elliott with a trace of exasperation. "You exhaust your public with temporary shows and they never get upstairs to see your permanent collections...
...heavily influenced by Bacharach's own brand of arranging) in Promises, Promises are an essential part of the Bacharach score. And, in line with this, the composer has seen to it that his show is the first to use recording-studio electronics in a Broadway theatre. In the auditorium, one hears half sound straight from the stage and orchestra, and half sound that has been sent through an amplification-echo chamber system. There are also four female vocalists in the orchestra pit, who blend their harmonic flights of wordless sound into the instrumentation--and the whole thing is controlled from...
Late in September, just before I left for Cambridge, we went to hear Duke Ellington, and she enjoyed that. As usual for a black performer in Daytona Beach, there were few whites in the city auditorium that night. But she didn't seem uneasy, she opened up to the music...
...enough in the direction that it did take. Leven's original cast and crew walked out in December, charging excessive demands on the part of the director. Their replacements had only eleven days of rehearsal before the show opened. Little use was made of most of the auditorium's electronic equipment. There was no one around who really knew how to utilize all of it. During its first few weeks, the show began to exploit the many available effects. They introduced polarized light; original films would soon be added...