THE ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS MAKES WAVES WITH A VISUALLY AND ACOUSTICALLY REFINED NEW CONCERT HALL

摘要

What we wrote in our Sep/Oct 2015 issue: More than three decades ago, when grand plans were hatched to build the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts on Rice Park in downtown St. Paul, the founders' vision called for two performance spaces: a 2,000-seat music hall for big shows and a 1,000-seat concert venue for smaller performances. But budget constraints forced several compromises, and in the end the latter space became a 300-seat theater that lacked the acoustics required for truly great music making.