ITEM: Diagram of the New Music Hall, Boston Massachusetts

DATE: 1900

SIZE : 17 1/2 by 11 inches

COMMENTS: A diagram of the New Music Hall from Connelly's Theatre Ticket Office Adams House, Boston.  The New Music Hall known as Symphony Hall was inaugurated on October 15, 1900, after the Orchestra's original home (the Old Boston Music Hall) was threatened by road-building and subway construction. Architects McKim, Mead and White engaged Wallace Clement Sabine, a young assistant professor of physics at Harvard University, as their acoustical consultant, and Symphony Hall became one of the first auditoria designed in accordance with scientifically derived acoustical principles. The Hall was modeled on the second, and now destroyed, Gewandhaus concert hall in Leipzig, and is relatively long, narrow, and high, in a rectangular "shoebox" shape like Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and Vienna's Musikvereinssaal. It is 61 feet high, 75 feet wide, and 125 long from the lower back wall to the front of the stage. Stage walls slope inward to help focus the sound. With the exception of its wooden floors, the Hall is built of brick, steel, and plaster, with modest decoration. Side balconies are very shallow to avoid trapping or muffling sound, and the coffered ceiling and statue-filled niches along three sides help provide excellent acoustics to essentially every seat .

CONDITON: Light soiling and age toning. The diagram has 6 creases from being folded.There is a closed tear, repaired with archival document tape to the center crease. There are small closed tears to the creases at the edges and 3 very small chips to the left fold halfway down the diagram where the age toning is heaviest. SEE PHOTOS

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