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Other changes are the alteration of the building's system to provide better acoustics for performers and the addition of an elevator to make the building disabled-accessible, said Michael N. Lichten, director of the office of physical resources in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...main performance floor level was raised [which] allows the performance floor to be accessible," Lichten said yesterday. "This left a space between the basement and the performancefloor...for acoustic purposes...
...Openings in the ceiling were made to adjustacoustics...and acoustic curtains were put intothe attic," Lichten said. "The openings into theattic were also used to install performancelights...
Both the basement level and the performancefloor were completely refurbished, Lichten said. Aperformance wall was added in front of thebuilding's exterior wall on the performance level,making it possible for performers to cross fromone side of the floor to the other unseen by theaudience...
Indeed, Michael N. Lichten, Harvard's director of physical resources, says the university's ability to maintain security by "responding efficiently and quickly to lost keys was probably the foremost issue" in its decision to switch to the new system...