NEW YORK: The New York Philharmonic is tuning up to open their brand-new performance space next month — and it’s not only the instruments that need to strike the perfect pitch.
The hall itself is getting trial runs, with the famed symphony testing their pieces as acousticians make adjustments to wall and ceiling panels to ensure warm, rich tones.
It’s “almost like you’re going on a safari for sound,” said Jaap van Zweden, the philharmonic’s music director since 2018. “It’s really to reinvent the sound of the orchestra.”
The Dutch-born conductor explained to AFP that for years, the former…
