[Magdalen] Smaller but not Forgotten.

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

Northrup Auditoium was/is a large theater type space that was
the center for much of the artistic activity in the Twin Cities of  
Minnesota.
For example, it was the home of the Minnesota (earlier: Minneapolis)
Symphony Orchestra and the location of New York's Metropolitan Opera
Tour for an annual week in May.
 
It was enormous (4,800+) and acoustically dead.
 
Minnesota tended to go for gigantism.  The downtown movie  palace,
The Minnesota Theater, was even larger before it suffered the  wrecking
ball in the 1960's.
 
In any case, Northrup has been reimagined to the tune of $88 million,
and cut into a main theater and two smaller stages.  The main  theater
now seats 2,800, and seems to have corrected the acoustical problems.
 
I do not know the fate of the Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ of some 97  ranks.
 
In any case, the basics are still there for another generation, and  not
razed and hauled off to some land-fill TBTG.
 
 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Auditorium
 
 
David S.