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Posted on January 5, 2019 by Ben

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Disneyland with my baby girl. And that, ladies and

Disneyland with my baby girl. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what it’s all about.

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It’s the most dreadful time of the year.

HHN31 Opening Night (Part 2)

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The future’s so bright we gotta wear sunglasses.

The future’s so bright we gotta wear sunglasses. Literally.

Bead Tree in Bloom

Bead Tree in Bloom

Wonderful week of my (soon-to-be-grandparents!) pa

Wonderful week of my (soon-to-be-grandparents!) parents visiting us. Can’t wait for more family photos with the baby later this year!

We had a fabulous time at the Dr Phillips Center c

We had a fabulous time at the Dr Phillips Center celebrating the opening of Orlando’s new concert hall, Steinmetz Hall. The Royal Philharmonic and 8 members of the Royal Ballet travelled from London for a one night only performance.

The journey to this month’s opening of the hall has lasted nearly 2 decades. The Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts began construction in the wake of the Great Recession, and as a result there weren’t enough funds to complete it. So they built half of the building- with a temporary wall in the middle- containing the Broadway-style Walt Disney Theater. After several years they were able to get the remaining funding to complete the other half of the center and build the concert hall, which was set to open in early 2021. Then the pandemic hit. 18 years after they started the project, this month it’s finally complete.

The entire hall has an N1 acoustics rating, the highest you can get, and is raised up off the ground on 250 vibration absorbing towers so that vibrations and sound from traffic don’t transfer into the building.

Not only is is a beautiful space, with world class acoustics, it’s also one of the most technologically advanced concert halls in the world. The curved back section of the hall behind the orchestra (which weighs 500 tons) can slide back on rails 60 feet, and a proscenium can drop into place from above, to create a traditional proscenium theater for ballet and opera. Or it can be set up as a pure concert hall for acoustic orchestral performance. Additionally, all the orchestra level seating can be raised or lowered, or flip upside down row-by-row, hiding the seating beneath the floor, all automated. There’s video of what this looks like on YouTube, it’s pretty crazy: https://youtu.be/AMyoPZDpbvg

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