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| - Was lucky enough to watch a concert rendition of Les Miserables here at the Artemus Ham Concert Hall on Saturday 2/15/14 my wife and friends.
Located off of Cottage Grove Dr and Maryland Parkway as the main cross street, you can park in the structure that is right next to this place. Since it was after school hours, you didn't need a permit or have to pay to park. Yay!
The theater itself kind of has an old school feel to it. I guess you can say it has an early form of stadium seating. Be careful when looking for your seat here because there are quite a bit of steps involved leading to your seat.
The music acoustics of the place is captivating. This place is truly designed for live musical instruments. In this case, it was a whole orchestra lead by a conductor. When they play their instruments, the music seems to float effortlessly through the air and into your ears. I like the fact that they did not use any microphones next to any of the musicians to amplify the sound. It was definitely not needed. You can hear all the instruments nice and clear.
As for the voice acoustics, well..........I think it can use some upgrading. On stage they had I would say about a dozen mics set up for the performers. When I say upgrade, I mean that they need to either get better mics or a better sound mixer/amplifier. It could also be the speakers they were using as well. Reasons why are whenever the performers would do their thing whether it was a solo, duet, or group act, not all the mics seemed to be tuned at the right volumes. When you hear them sing coming out of the speakers, it sounds like it can use some clearing up or some form of higher amplification for a cleaner sound. Of course this doesn't mean the people singing were not any good. Matter of fact they were all excellent worthy of a big name production company sponsoring them on a major tour.
So any time you have chance of watching a show here with live instruments, don't pass up on that opportunity for you will experience and appreciate what live music really sounds like. Hopefully after this review they improve upon the voice acoustics so it can compliment the former. Until then, it is 4 solid stars for me!
Yelp 2014 365 Review Challenge #49
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