Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/06/10

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Subject: [Leica] Boston
From: lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:43:55 -0400

Nathan,

These are very nice pictures of the Boston area, a place where I lived and
worked for many years. It's refreshing to see a photo essay on Boston
without a surfeit of historic sites.

For music buffs on the LUG -  the MIT Kresge Auditorium, about halfway down
the first page was considered an architectural masterpiece when it was first
built but turned out to be an acoustical disaster. The hard curved surfaces
reflected sound in unusual patterns, focusing it in some areas and blanking
it out in others. Orchestras and musical groups refused to play there. It
just goes to show that MIT doesn't have all the technological answers. The
fix was to call in the acoustical firm of Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (also
co-inventors of the internet) to do an entire remake of the interior. Still
it doesn't compare with the 100 year earlier Civil War memorial auditorium,
Sanders Theater, at Harvard just a couple of miles north.

I liked the photographs very much.

Larry Z


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