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Listing of articles about H&A buildings

Minutes of meetings, memoranda, and correspondence between H&A and the acoustical consulting firm, Bolt, Beranek and Newman. Other documents include BBN sketches and calculations as to concert hall volume. File also contains other correspondence, notes, and a report by Hugh Bagenal. Folder inscribed by MA: Minutes Meetings 1957-1959.

Letters, dated April and June 1962, from Leo Beranek of BBN to Abramovitz, Leopold Stokowski and others. Mimeograph copy with handwritten annotations of the first draft of chapter 15, Philharmonic Hall, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, from Beranek's book, Music, Acoustics & Architecture (New York : Wiley, 1962). File also contains BBN's Detailed Plans for the Tuning Period, May 1, 1962. Primarily devoted to acoustics, the file also includes materials on other topics such as Philharmonic seating plans. Included are memoranda, clippings, and transparencies. Original file labeled: M.A. Phil Mscl 1962, 1963-5 and inscribed by MA: MA File* Misc 62/65 Acoustics etc.

Report of Dec. 18, 1962, Acoustics of Philharmonic Hall Recommended Adjustments. BBN correspondence for the period 1962-1963. Undated report by M.R. Schroeder and others of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Acoustical Measurement in Philharmonic Hall. Original folder inscribed: Philharmonic Hall, Acoustics, Bolt Beranek & Newman 62-63-65.

10 photographs : exterior, renderings