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These structural changes bumped the final cost up to $8 million. Doebele says the Gund family was very sympathetic to the financial pressures throughout the project, and defrayed all additional costs. The W.T. Piper Auditorium which seats about 400, and the Frances Loeb Library were funded separately with the stipulation that the building was constructed to permit entrance to both facilities without entering Gund Hall...
...even the protesters were swept under by the supra-efficient planning which fused the Republican's gathering in Miami Beach. Their goal of forcing the President to deliver his acceptance speech before a half filled auditorium seemed an improbable one at the outset; its chances for success diminished steadily as internal dissension over tactics of violence and non-violence split the demonstrators...
Over 500 Cambridge tenants packed the Rindge Tech auditorium to discuss provisional rent control procedures last night at the third public hearing this summer called by the Cambridge Rent Board...
Under the circumstances, it was perhaps the most charitable thing Shure could do. Burden Hall is considerably less than ideal for intricate chamber music. The acoustical properties of the auditorium, which boom forth the middle and lower registers of the piano, while subduing its upper range (as well as the overtones of the bowed instruments) are responsible for a bizarre series of events leading to the cancellation of at least one concert this spring. (In attempting to compensate the distortion, a female pianist sprained her hand). And thus unhappily, the inner lines of the piano parts, which contain quite...
...problems of the concert on Monday evening can be blamed on the Business School's new auditorium--which is, after all, given the Harvard artistic milieu, a real sign of progress: no sirens, no uncontrollable drafts, moderately comfortable seats. One can readily forgive a great many performers' foibles--harsh sounds resulting from nervousness, an occasionally self-indulgent glissando, embarassing intonations in enharmonic modulations, ostentatious riccochet bowings which don't synchronize--and so on. But when the composer's written indications of expression are disregarded, and extraneous ones interpolated for the 'luscious' effect of the moment; when the long, harmonically-directed...