Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forgo their artistic expressions in favor of those that will better ensure musical results. After all, one would hardly expect a piano that was constructed like a contemporary piece of furniture to sound like a piano; the same may apply to the largest musical instrument of all-the concert auditorium...
From either end of a long table in the auditorium of New Jersey's Seton Hall University, the two men sat glowering at each other. "It's an abuse of academic freedom to make such irresponsible, seditious statements," cried State Senator Wayne Dumont Jr., the Republican candidate for Governor Rejoined Democratic Governor Richard J. Hughes: "There are federal statutes against treason and sedition a complex of laws and courts, and 'an FBI to protect the nation." Then, when the debate was over, the protagonists stalked off separately without so much as a word or a handshake...
...memorial program honoring the late French architect Le Corbusier will be presented by the Harvard Graduate School of Design Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Fogg Museum...
...reached a new peak last week as a result of a state court order enjoining both Negroes and countermarching Klansmen from street demonstrations. Negro pickets continued to parade for a dozen demands-notably a city council statement condemning the Klan, desegregation of public facilities such as the library and auditorium, addition of four Negroes to make a total of six on the 50-man police force-and were arrested in droves...
...German Acoustician Heinrich Keilholz takes over. Clouds are raised and further patched up. Their function is now described as "decorative." Undulating, floor-to-ceiling panels of plywood constructed around stage. Auditorium walls reshaped. Two-foot-deep "reflector box" constructed around stage apron. Air-conditioning units are muffled. Total cost: $335,000. Critics say echoes persist and bass has developed thudding sound. Consensus is that sound is warmer, but still nothing approaching that of Vienna's Grosser Musikvereinssaal, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw or Boston's Symphony Hall-all built before acoustics became a science...