[Magdalen] Smaller but not Forgotten.

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

They are re-doing the "Your-Name-Here-for-$30-million" Hall.

It is the auditorium formerly known as Avery Fisher Hall. They had to pay
the Fisher family fifteen million to get them to give up the name.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com>
wrote:

>
> I think that was the last time I saw the Met. I attended a performance
> there in the early 80's. I forgot which opera, it was just the change to
> see the Met. It must have been standard repertoire; because I would have
> remembered if I had seen something special beyond the Met itself. The Met
> on tour was my first professional opera experience. My mother took me to
> Aida in the mid 50's and just before that we went to an amateur performance
> of Carmen in a local high school auditorium. Not too long (a few years)
> after that I saw Andrea Chenier at the Baths of Caracalla in 1957
>
> Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> >Sent: Dec 2, 2014 12:16 PM
> >To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> >Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Smaller but not Forgotten.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >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.
> >
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