Abstract
The College Community School District music programs required a venue larger and more conducive to band and choral performance than their 1970s 400-seat theater. The new venue, located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, seats 1000 in a space designed primarily for music but with theatrical capability as well. An adjustable orchestra shell and variable absorption tailor the room's acoustic response to speech, theater, jazz, symphonic band, choral, and orchestra. Though it must accommodate bands of up to 140 players for audiences of up to a thousand, the hall must also be responsive to small ensembles and intimate to audiences of only a few hundred. To control loudness for the largest bands, the orchestra shell can be vented to th flytower. The design will be presented, as well as measurement data and anecdotal impressions of the shell.
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