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The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), in Downtown Newark in Newark, New Jersey, is one of the largest performing arts centers in the United States. [1] Home to the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO), more than nine million visitors (including more than one million children) have visited the center since it opened in October 1997 on the site of the former Military Park Hotel.
The other four seating wagons travel on air bearings which float the wagons like a hovercraft onto downstage most orchestra pit/fore-stage lift. Orchestra player chairs and stands can also be transported to stage level via these lifts. The stage's maximum load is 160 pounds per square foot (780 kg/m 2).
The front of the stage can be disassembled to accommodate an orchestra pit measuring 40 by 10 ft (12.2 by 3.0 m) or a row of orchestra seating. [41] A red house curtain [36] and a fire curtain were also installed. [41] The auditorium's roof is supported by four columns, two each in the front and in the back.
The auditorium has an orchestra level, boxes, two balconies, promenades on the three seating levels, and a large stage behind the proscenium arch. The auditorium's width is slightly greater than its depth, and the auditorium is designed with plaster decorations in high relief . [ 41 ]
View of stage and orchestra seating from mezzanine seating View of mezzanine balconies from orchestra seating Architectural critic Douglas Haskell said of the auditorium: "The focus is the great proscenium arch, over 60 feet [18 m] high and 100 feet [30 m] feet wide, a huge semi-circular void.
Severance Hall, also known as Severance Music Center, [1] is a concert hall in the University Circle neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, home to the Cleveland Orchestra.Opened in 1931 to give the orchestra a permanent home, the building is named for patrons John L. Severance and his wife, Elisabeth Huntingdon DeWitt Severance. [2]
View from the stage toward the seating areas. The auditorium has an orchestra level; two levels of boxes above the orchestra; one balcony; and a stage behind the proscenium arch. The auditorium's width is greater than its depth, and the space is designed with plaster decorations in high relief. [29]
The Meyerson Symphony Center also is home to the 4,535 pipe C. B. Fisk Op. 100 organ, [5] known as the Lay Family Concert Organ. [6] Although it had been Charles Fisk 's dream to build a monumental concert organ (the firm unsuccessfully bid on the contract for San Francisco's Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall ), and despite years of planning and ...