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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: RE: Absolutely NO Electronic Enhancement In Chicago posted by ahendler on March 10, 2011 at 10:43:09:
...in the early 90s at the difference in sound from when I was a subscriber in the 70s.
I was a regular at Orchestra Hall for a few years while in school, from 1972 to 1976, as well as for a fair few years after that. We would drive up from Indy regularly to attend a few concerts and recitals every year until the early 80s. A good friends brother-in-law was on the board and had great seats. After '82 I didn't go back until the 90s.
I've been in a few halls around the country and always thought Orchestra Hall was wonderful (if not perfect) - great orchestra in a great hall.
When I heard Gil Shaham play there in 1990-something I was totally shocked at how "dark" the hall sounded, and how the dynamics seemed slightly compressed. Where was the clarity I remembered? Where was all the glorious sound of a great orchestra in full cry that I remembered from my youth? Were my memories of the old CSO conducted by Solti and Guiliani that off?? Had I gone deaf? I dunno.
I am, BTW, used to listening to the electronically enhanced sound at the Circle Theater in Indy, home of the ISO, which is one of the driest sounding halls in the US - it is absolutely beautiful, a little jewel box, but a very strange sounding venue unless you're in the first or second mez.
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