Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Some great recordings were made at Kresge, including the incomparable mid-50s recordings of Ernst Levy http://www.marstonrecords.com/levy/levy_tracks.htm Jim Shulman Wynnewood, PA Who would have loved to hear Levy perform in person! -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Lawrence Zeitlin Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 2:44 PM To: Leica LUG Subject: [Leica] Boston Nathan, These are very nice pictures of the Boston area, a place where I lived and worked for many years. It's refreshing to see a photo essay on Boston without a surfeit of historic sites. For music buffs on the LUG - the MIT Kresge Auditorium, about halfway down the first page was considered an architectural masterpiece when it was first built but turned out to be an acoustical disaster. The hard curved surfaces reflected sound in unusual patterns, focusing it in some areas and blanking it out in others. Orchestras and musical groups refused to play there. It just goes to show that MIT doesn't have all the technological answers. The fix was to call in the acoustical firm of Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (also co-inventors of the internet) to do an entire remake of the interior. Still it doesn't compare with the 100 year earlier Civil War memorial auditorium, Sanders Theater, at Harvard just a couple of miles north. I liked the photographs very much. Larry Z _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information