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Yesterday’s event, which took place in an auditorium packed with students in grades five through eight, included remarks by local politicians and school officials—including Mayor Michael. A. Sullivan, Deputy Superintendent Carolyn Turk and Tobin School Principal Don Watson. Watson noted that the Tobin school in particular has maintained strong connections with Harvard, participating in City Step, HARMONY, Phillips Brooks House Association programs and other tutoring initiatives...
...orchestra's sonority can rest," is what 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." 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...
Gehry's first instinct had been to design an auditorium as asymmetrical as the walls outside. But he was concerned that too many strange angles would make people reject the place. "I wanted to give them what I call a handrail, a visual handrail." He means that he designed a comforting, symmetrical interior in cozy Douglas fir, with gentle curves that strongly recall the work of Alvar Aalto, the Finnish architect whose work is one of Gehry's lifelong inspirations. Gehry's multicolored floral-pattern upholstery is another nod to the comfort factor. A tribute to Lillian's love...
...What would it take to fill this auditorium?” Cornell asked as he peered out over the empty rows in the Harvard Hall lecture room...
...mixed crowd of students, volunteers and older supporters responded well to the speech, rising for a standing ovation when Kerry stressed the need for accountability in the Oval Office. He paced in front of the auditorium as he spoke, without a tie but with a small American flag pin on his blazer’s lapel...