Director Andrew Litton conducts the Colorado Symphony Orchestra during a rehearsal at Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver last Thursday. (Craig F. Walker, The Denver Post)
Re: “Don’t tear down Boettcher Concert Hall; update it,” Sept. 14 My Turn column.
The CEO of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Jerome H. Kern, writes that Boettcher Concert Hall “was built for acoustic music,” implying it would be detrimental to the orchestra’s sound quality to move elsewhere.
It seems to me that the acoustics of Boettcher were designed only for the seats in the Orchestra 1 and Orchestra 2 sections.
Sitting close to the orchestra, the acoustics are mind-blowing. The problem is sitting above it, in the “cheap seats,” which is where I sat until one concert last winter, where the ticket prices were reduced for a young artists’ performance. I realized that sitting up high, I had never really experienced the orchestra before. The performances were enjoyable, but I could not feel the magic; they didn’t turn me into a raving maniac, urging people to put this kind of symphony experience on their bucket lists.
I would appreciate the opportunity to experience the CSO in the “cheap seats” at the Ellie, as was so eloquently suggested by letter-writer John Bennett in his letter (Sept. 14 Open Forum). Then I could have an informed opinion about whether the CSO should stay or go.
Ritchie Hurless, Aurora
This letter was published in the Sept. 22 edition.
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