Sweet sounds of success.(renovation of music halls across the United States)

Town & Country | August 1, 1997| | Copyright

If American audiences for serious music are aging and about to disappear--as is often said--why are we spending billions to fix up the nation's major opera houses and concert halls?

There are hammers ringing out in music halls all over America--and we don't mean the type found on pianos. Real steel-nosed jackhammers and drills and saws and rivet guns have replaced violins and oboes and sopranos as the soundmakers in an amazingly high number of old symphony halls and opera houses from coast to coast. Chicago's Orchestra Hall is in the throes of a $105 million ...

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