Trains that pass during concerts
May 20, 2013 13:30:48 GMT -5
Post by neilmcgowan on May 20, 2013 13:30:48 GMT -5
The L.A.Philharmonic are beginning to fear what the noise consequences will be of passing subway trains in future:
www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-disney-subway-noise-20130517,0,4730121.story
But I'm sure many concert halls share this kind of problem?
At the Moscow Conservatoire the sound of metro trains can be distantly heard in the Small Hall, although they are more audible in the Great Hall as they trundle towards Alexandrovsky Sad station, down the street.
Metro trains are much more noisy at Moscow's other large concert-hall, the Tchaikovsky Hall - which sits directly on top of Mayakovskaya station. The Tchaikovsky Hall was never originally intended as a concert venue - it grew from being a C19th pleasure-garden into first a bear-bating pit, later a circus, then a variety theatre... and only became a concert-hall during the soviet era, when the metro had already been dug below it.
What other concert halls have habitual background noise?
I once staged a production of IOLANTHE in a very nice venue which had one annoying drawback - a vast chiming clock on the clocktower above it. The clock was extremely accurate, so we timed its chimes to substitute for those of Big Ben at the opening of Act II
I've never seen a chiming clock get a round of applause before 
www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-disney-subway-noise-20130517,0,4730121.story
But I'm sure many concert halls share this kind of problem?
At the Moscow Conservatoire the sound of metro trains can be distantly heard in the Small Hall, although they are more audible in the Great Hall as they trundle towards Alexandrovsky Sad station, down the street.
Metro trains are much more noisy at Moscow's other large concert-hall, the Tchaikovsky Hall - which sits directly on top of Mayakovskaya station. The Tchaikovsky Hall was never originally intended as a concert venue - it grew from being a C19th pleasure-garden into first a bear-bating pit, later a circus, then a variety theatre... and only became a concert-hall during the soviet era, when the metro had already been dug below it.
What other concert halls have habitual background noise?
I once staged a production of IOLANTHE in a very nice venue which had one annoying drawback - a vast chiming clock on the clocktower above it. The clock was extremely accurate, so we timed its chimes to substitute for those of Big Ben at the opening of Act II
I've never seen a chiming clock get a round of applause before 