Theater
Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Open-air stainless-steel bandshell with a trellis of hidden speakers engineered to sound like an indoor concert hall.
0:00≈ 2 min
Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago's Millennium Park follows the promise architect Frank Gehry made before its criss-crossing steel trellis existed: that an open field would sound like a concert hall. It traces how the Oak Park acoustics firm Talaske, led by Rick Talaske and Jonathan Laney, set out to answer that promise for the Grant Park Orchestra with a system threaded through Gehry's steelwork. Steelworkers from Springfield, Missouri raised the six-hundred-foot trellis that carries it overhead.
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