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...international reputation. And you hope and pray no one notices your work. For acoustics designers like Yasuhisa Toyota, success arrives when an audience is rapt in the music, oblivious to the complicated physics it takes to project a Beethoven symphony with warmth and clarity. Toyota is the director of Nagata Acoustics, a tiny Tokyo company that has just completed a plum assignment: collaborating with architect Frank Gehry on the long-awaited $274 million Walt Disney Concert Hall, which opened to critical praise in Los Angeles in October...
...Mahler's Fifth Symphony? Can the huff and puff of the Carmina Burana sound any good in the same space where soprano Dawn Upshaw unfolds that lucid, liquid C? The curving interior of the Disney Hall was developed by Gehry with Yasuhisa Toyota, a partner in the Tokyo firm Nagata Acoustics...
...season is young and both opponents have good players. Penn's Drew Corradini leads the Ancient Eight with 31 hits and .431 average. The Quakers also feature Mark Nagata, who led the Ivy League in batting average last season, and Armen Simonian, who was among the league leaders in both hitting and pitching in 1997. Columbia junior Dan Gati is second in the league with 32 strikeouts...
...Penn--M. Nagata. 2B: Penn--Turner; Harvard--Carey 2. E: Penn--DeRosa 2; Harvard--Hochanadel, Forst...
...case in point is Nagata, an older working-class district that was swept by a conflagration. Nagata's numerous small factories housed nearly 70% of Japan's shoe industry, which may not rise again. Yasunori Noma, 72, picked methodically through piles of bricks and fire-blackened equipment in search of salvageable machined tubing. Noma's one-man operation had supplied makers of car components. Without insurance, he faces total loss. ``I was thinking about retiring, but now I'll have to work,'' he remarked while putting a piece of steel tubing in a bag. He did not have much faith...