Avery Fisher Hall

The Avery Fisher Hall is a famous concert hall in New York.

Location

The Avery Fisher Hall is part of the Lincoln Center in the district of the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The Avery Fisher Hall is located on the north side of the Lincoln Center Plaza at the corner of Columbus Avenue and W. 65 St. They can be reached by subway line 1 (stop " 66th St. / Lincoln Center Station ").

New York Philharmonic

In the Avery Fisher Hall play the New York Philharmonic, which occurred earlier in the Carnegie Hall.

History

The Avery Fisher Hall was built in 1959-1962 by Max Abramovitz. The cost was $ 16 million. It was consecrated on 23 September 1962, was originally called Philharmonic Hall. In gratitude for a donation over $ 10.5 million of Avery Fisher, founder of Fisher Radio and former board member of the Philharmonic, it was renamed in 1973 in Avery Fisher Hall. The auditorium can accommodate 2,742 listeners.

Architecture

The Avery Fisher Hall is a classic example of the modernism of the 1960s. Characteristic is the facade of travertine, glazed atriums and large, Roman -looking, facing the Plaza balcony with tapered travertine columns.

In the entrance hall hangs a monumental abstract golden suspended construction of the American artist Richard Lippold.

Acoustics

The leading acoustics designer and professor at MIT Leo L. Beranek was commissioned to design the acoustics for the concert hall. He recommended the concert hall as rectangular " shoebox " similar to the legendary Boston Symphony Hall to build. It should provide space for 2,400 people. The New York Herald Tribune launched a press campaign to increase the capacity of the hall. When the plans were already well advanced, Baranek grudgingly after the insistence of the architect Abramovitz. They added concave curved side walls.

The opening of the concert hall in 1962 was "the largest public acoustic disaster of the 20th century." Visitors and critics complained, the bass was too bright and too weak. Musicians complained they could not hear each other during the performance. Because several attempts to improve the acoustics, remained unsuccessful, you tore the interior in 1976 completely. The architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee led acoustician Cyril Harris with the help of through a complete redesign of the acoustic room. The conversion was the concert organ Aeolian - Skinner of the victim, so that since then at the Avery Fisher Hall no more organ concerts can be listed. On 19 October 1976, Avery Fisher Hall was reopened.

The acoustic problems adhere to: Kurt Masur lower line 1992 by the acoustician Russell Johnson and John Burgee architect installed large sound-reflecting wooden panels on the sides of the stage area.

Already in 2010, the concert hall for an anticipated $ 300 million should be thoroughly renovated to improve its acoustics. But a project implementation was not in gear.

A renovation is urgently needed for other reasons: many of the Stairs made of travertine are broken, buckets catch water from broken pipes, the dressing rooms are cramped, the lobbies are crowded and the air conditioner is too loud.

The renovation is now done according to a new plan from the year 2012, which will banish the orchestra for two seasons to other venues, such as the New York Times reported.

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