Paul ([info]happyfunpaul) wrote,
@ 2009-02-20 10:51:00
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[links] Loewe sound
OK, I needed a laugh. This did the trick!


[via Andrew Sullivan]

BTW, the venue looks a lot like Symphony Hall in Boston, but it's probably just that Boston's was modeled after symphony halls in Europe. The ad agency and company are German, so that'd fit.


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[info]twoeleven
2009-02-20 05:00 pm UTC (link)
it's cute. :)

sorta related: a few months ago, i went to a performance of the carmina burana, which has a few huge choral pieces. wilmington's grand opera house is sufficiently small that that they ended up putting the children's chorus up in the balconies flanking the stage. it was rather like having woofers and tweeters. :)

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[info]madfilkentist
2009-02-20 06:20 pm UTC (link)
Being at work, I had to watch it without sound, so I couldn't tell quite what was going on. But it's definitely not Symphony Hall; the configuration of organ pipes is different.

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[info]tfarrell
2009-02-20 07:26 pm UTC (link)
Symphony halls are designed in specific ways for functional reasons; for example, if the hall has an organ, the organ is GOING to be in front because there isn't really anywhere else to put it that doesn't block the audience from getting in and out. Therefore, the stage will either be backed by a bunch of pipes or some kind of screen put over a bunch of pipes, which is what you see in the background there. I'm not surprised it looks like our symphony hall, I imagine a lot of them look highly similar.

Symphony Hall in Boston is interesting in that it was the first that was actually designed for acoustics, and is widely considered to be the acoustically best symphony space in the world.

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[info]happyfunpaul
2009-02-20 08:48 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for info. I don't actually have much experience with different orchestral venues. Chicago's was quite different from Boston's or the one in the video (especially looking away from the stage); it's more like stadium seating. Vienna's is different in the opposite way; it goes up much higher. I can't think of any other indoor symphony venues offhand, so I was afraid to generalize!

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