Behind some of the world's most reputed concert halls is a Japanese engineer whose finesse in shaping sound is so perfectly unobtrusive that all listeners hear is the music - in all its subtlety… By ...

Gehry, who died on Friday at 96, made an invaluable contribution to classical music by designing spaces with stunning ...

This week is the 150th anniversary of Vienna’s Musikverein, inaugurated on January 6, 1870. It was the first of a group of concert halls — followed by Leipzig’s second Gewandhaus, opened in 1884 (and ...

Researchers in Finland have found that music is perceived to have greater dynamic range in rectangular, shoebox shaped concert halls than in other types of halls. Aalto University researchers have ...

Is it art or science? In the quest for the ideal acoustic in a concert hall, the fact that our ears are on the sides of our heads is just as important as being on good terms with the architects. When ...

Tomorrow, after six months of renovations -- and years of complaints about poor sound -- Toronto's Roy Thomson Hall reveals its new acoustic facelift. The sweeping changes to canopies, seating and ...

THE halls of Hinchley Wood School echoed with the sound of rock during the annual music event — Hinchley Woodstock. The concert gives youngsters the chance to show off their musical skills while ...

TOKYO (AP) -- Behind some of the world’s most reputed concert halls is a Japanese engineer whose finesse in shaping sound is so perfectly unobtrusive that all listeners hear is the music -- in all its ...