Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concert halls in the U.S. have tended to be either lavishly restored movie $ palaces, such as Powell Hall in St. Louis and the Paramount Theater in Oakland, or gleaming, high-tech edifices like Davies Hall in San Francisco and Meyerhoff Hall in Baltimore. Last week in St. Paul, Architect Benjamin Thompson, the designer of Boston's Faneuil Hall Marketplace, unveiled a stunning combination: the Ordway Music Theater, a $45 million jewel overlooking the Mississippi that is one of the handsomest public spaces for music in America...
...lobbies and within its two auditoriums. The seats--between 1,815 and 2,000 in the larger, depending on the configuration of the stage--are a warm shade called terra cotta, and a blue patterned carpet covers most of the floors. Given the prevailing climate in Minnesota during the concert season, the cozy warmth conveyed by the materials is not misplaced...
...Nelson, a team at the University of California designed an unorthodox mirror that will not be a continuous concave surface, like Hale's, but 36 hexagonal pieces of specially shaped glass, each 6 ft. across and 3 in. thick; the segments will be fit together and will move in concert to act as one giant parabolic mirror. That harmony is possible only with the aid of a computer- controlled sensing and positioning system, which will realign the components 100 times a second by as little as one one-thousandth the width of a human hair...
...separately. Overseas, Japanese astronomers also have their eyes on Mauna Kea; they hope to build a 295-in. telescope on the volcano by the 1990s. The European Southern Observatory, headquartered in Munich, is considering an array of four 315-in. telescopes that could, like the N.O.A.O. instrument, act in concert...
Interior Secretary Burford selects the rock group Cheap Trick to play at the annual Fourth of July concert on the Mall. The decision is overruled by First Lady Nancy Reagan who calls for the return of the Beach Boys. Soviet Westernophilc Michael Gorbachev praises the selection of the Beach, Boys, calling the group "my favorite musicians...