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Cyril M. Harris acoustical engineer pioneer dies
NEW YORK, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Cyril M. Harris, an acoustical
engineer who created the sound in many of the most prominent U.S. concert halls, theaters and auditoriums, has died at 93. Harris died Tuesday at his Manhattan home, The New York Times reported Harris was known as a traditionalist who, in an era of steel, glass and concrete, preferred wood and plaster to bring the full, resonant sound of the great 19th-century concert halls to their modern counterparts, including the Metropolitan Opera and Avery Fisher Hall in New York. His approach proved highly successful, starting in 1966 with the Metropolitan, whose acoustics he designed with the Danish engineer Vilhelm Jordan. Harris eventually would design the acoustics for more than 100 halls across the nation, the Times said. His renovation of the Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in the mid-1970s, which had been beset with acoustical problems since its 1962 opening, cemented his reputation as the pre-eminent acoustical engineer in the United States. Harold C. Schonberg, the classical music critic for The New York Times, wrote that Harris's acoustical rehabilitation had changed it from "a horror to one of the important acoustic installations of the world." -Tim Sprout |
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