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A Look Inside the Renovated Concert Hall at Lincoln Center

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With giddiness and glee, musicians tested the acoustics of the newly renovated Alice Tully Hall on Tuesday, less than a month before it reopens after a $159 million, 22-month upgrade, a major milestone in Lincoln Centers $1.2 billion remaking.

The musicians, acoustical experts and Lincoln Center officials in attendance all proclaimed the hall much more present, alive and reverberant than the old Tully, which had been widely faulted for its dry sound. That was the initial impression, but a highly provisional one. A hall reveals its true nature only with a full audience in the seats.

The halls interior is simple. The inside walls are sheathed in an amber-colored veneer about the thickness of two sheets of paper, cut from a single log of an African moabi tree. LED bulbs are mounted behind the resin panels that form a band around the front part of the hall, so that with a buttons touch, a variable amber glow emerges in a diffuse band.

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