Abravanel Hall

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Abravanel Hall is a concert hall in Salt Lake City, Utah which is home to the Utah Symphony, and is part of the Salt Lake County Arts Center. The hall is an architectural building in the city, and adjacent to Temple Square and the Salt Palace on South Temple Street. The hall can accommodate up to 2,811 passengers.

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The Utah Symphony Council established a Design and Construction Committee that included Maurice Abravanel, O.C. Tanner, and Jack Gallivan, to advise the architecture design team led by Bob Fowler. Construction takes three years and $ 12 million.

Abravanel Hall first opened in September 1979, and was originally known as Symphony Hall, but was renamed in May 1993 to Maurice Abravanel, the conductor of the Utah Symphony. In 1998, the Hall underwent an expansion project that added a wheelchair accessible toilet, a new Ticket Office, and a new reception room.

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Architecture

The hall is actually a concrete building inside a brick building. The building was designed by FFKR Architects and acoustic design services provided by Dr. Cyril M. Harris with the result of creating an acoustic excellence environment. Harris is an acoustic consultant for the renovated Avery Fisher Hall in New York City, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The hall is rectangular, similar to some of the world's best symphonic rooms, such as Grosser Musikvereinssaal in Vienna, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Symphony Hall in Boston. The stage is designed strictly for use as a concert hall, and has no prosentum - meaning that it is an extension of the audience. Cellos and bass players are also encouraged to make holes on stage with their endpins, so their sounds echo with the wooden hall, and not just their instruments. To enter the hall, the customer must pass through a sound lock corridor designed to isolate the concert hall from the noise and confusion of the lobby. Inside the hall, there is a curved convex surface on the walls and ceiling. There is no perfect corner of ninety degrees in the hall, because of its effect on the sound. Suspended from the ceiling are six 16 x 16-foot (4.9 m) brass waxes with 18,000 hand-cut beads and Bohemian crystal prisms imported from Austria and Czechoslovakia. The lobby is four levels, with white ceilings and brass ceilings, and a 5,400-square-foot glass curtain or wall (500 m) or covering most of the triangular-shaped East face. lobby. The lobby itself is an architectural marvel because of its many levels, the stairs leading up and to the left along with the triangular shape of the enclosure, the gold leaf covering all sides of the staircase and the visible balcony, and the 30 foot-high (9.1 m) glass wind turbine red ( Olympic Tower , by renowned glass artist Dale Chihuly) is displayed clearly in the center. This piece was purchased in 2002, after private donors and the Salt Lake Organizing Committee collected the $ 625,000 Chihuly requested. The Olympic Tower is priced at $ 900,000, though Chihuly is willing to sell it at a lower cost under the agreement that it will remain at Abravanel Hall and that the public will be able to see it without attending the show.

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See also

• List of concert halls

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References

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External links

• Utah Symphony and Opera Utah
• Abravanel Hall

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