Music Hall Architecture: It's the Best Time Ever for Sound, But Is Anyone Listening?

Cool story from the NY Times yesterday about our “entering a golden age in concert hall design,” despite dwindling numbers with classical performance attendees. It’s an interesting piece about the history of concert hall construction, why there are so many being built today and what’s going into them. And from what we inferred in reading it, that from Gehry’s Disney Concert Hall to Jean Nouvel’s Paris Philharmonie, this swarm of new buildings have perhaps begun to even eclipse the former reason why people would go to a concert hall: to hear music.