The Jay Pritzker Pavilion, is the "most sophisticated outdoor concert venue of its kind in the United States" ... "The Pavilion stands 120-feet high, with a billowing headdress of brushed stainless steel ribbons that frame the stage opening and connect to an overhead trellis of crisscrossing steel pipes". It is designed by the world-renowned architect Frank Gehry. It has 4,000 fixed seats plus additional lawn seating for 7,000..
The stainless steel crisscross seen over the lawn, ot the trellis, is or the primary purpose of suspending the loudspeakers. The trellis enables these devices to be precisely placed and carefully oriented with no visual obstructions. In addition, it creates a visual canopy that unifies the lawn with the fixed seating area as seen in the next post...
The pavilion boasts of the first outdoor LARES system permanently installed in the US. LARES is an acronym for an acoustical enhancement …“Lexicon Acoustic Reinforcement and Enhancement System”. It generates the reflected and reverberant energy that enables all the audience members throughout the Pavilion to experience that same sound quality.
The Pritzker Pavilion is home of the Grant Park Music Festival, the nation's only remaining free, municipally-supported, outdoor, classical music series ...
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