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On Thu, 14 May 2009 22:23:39 +0100, Stephen wrote:
> On 14 May 2009 14:39:07 -0400, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>
>>Well, in fairness, I've never actually been there, but I've heard it
>>described as good.
>>
>>Maybe it takes a large crowd to get it sounding right?
>
> It certainly has a great atmosphere. Maybe a concert that is mic'ed
> sounds better but I've been to a couple of proms and unless you are in
> the good seats or the choir (nice one Andrew) voices can sound drowned
> out or very faint.
That makes sense, I could see that - there is a concert hall in
Minneapolis that's kinda like that (acoustically) - you could sit in the
back of the third tier and hear the conductor wrinkle a dollar bill, but
I could see that vocal performances could sound quite muddy from time to
time if you weren't in the right place.
> Point of interest (or not) When the RAH was being built some boxes were
> sold in perpetuum. So there are some people that have a right to go to
> any performance without paying.
That is interesting. :-)
Jim
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