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<nyt_headline version="1.0" type=" ">Cyril Harris Dies at 93; Fine-Tuned Concert Halls</nyt_headline>
<nyt_byline></nyt_byline> <nyt_text> <nyt_correction_top> </nyt_correction_top> Cyril M. Harris, an acoustical engineer responsible for the sound in many of the most prominent concert halls, theaters and auditoriums in the United States, including the Metropolitan Opera and Avery Fisher Hall in New York, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 93.
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His death was confirmed by his daughter, Kate.
Mr. Harris was a traditionalist intent on taking the full, resonant sound of the great 19th-century concert halls to their modern descendants, whose cleaner, less ornamented architecture often proved fatal to classical music. In an age of steel, glass and concrete, he favored wood and plaster...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/arts/music/09harris.html?_r=2&ref=obituaries
<nyt_byline></nyt_byline> <nyt_text> <nyt_correction_top> </nyt_correction_top> Cyril M. Harris, an acoustical engineer responsible for the sound in many of the most prominent concert halls, theaters and auditoriums in the United States, including the Metropolitan Opera and Avery Fisher Hall in New York, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 93.
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His death was confirmed by his daughter, Kate.
Mr. Harris was a traditionalist intent on taking the full, resonant sound of the great 19th-century concert halls to their modern descendants, whose cleaner, less ornamented architecture often proved fatal to classical music. In an age of steel, glass and concrete, he favored wood and plaster...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/arts/music/09harris.html?_r=2&ref=obituaries