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There’s a plethora of articles on the completed renovation of Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center (New Yorker, N.Y. Times: architecture, N.Y. Times: acoustics, Bloomberg: noting who paid for naming rights, etc, etc). The most interesting of the lot is the one from the Times back in January where they actually interviewed the musicians (who gushed about the acoustics) and went into music geeky details on the reverberation goals (1.4 to 1.5 seconds), the adjustable stage (three settings), and the fact that subway noise was eliminated not by architecture but by the MTA who actually welded down the train tracks and installed rubber pads (wow).

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