Posted
3:52 PM
by Gene
Our city can't cure the problem on the streets, and now a classical mu-SIC cri-TIC proposes rebuilding the main concert hall in the Kimmel Memorial Quonset Hut. It only cost $265 million to put a telecom's name in the box, and presumably rebuilding it will cost twice as much, and may need three telecoms' names, and when it's finished you can be sure somebody, SOMEBODY, will find the acoustics quite dreadful. And who does our Orchestra play for? A slowly depleting bunch of geezers who are probably half-deaf as is?
No, joking or not, some Orchestra board member had the right idea: go back to the Academy. At least it
looks like a concert hall. Then tear down the Quonset Hut and build a campus for
RENDELL UNIVERSITY. That seems to be the only thing they could do with it.
(Via ArtsJournal)