Please Remain Calm. It’s Just A Concert-Hall Renovation.

“Could I throw a couple of glasses of cold water — not as much as a bucket, just a few handfuls, really — on all the euphoria about the new Alice Tully Hall? My problems with it aren’t major, and they’re not particularly musical: it sounds good, and the theater itself is beautiful to behold. But the reopening is being treated as if it were the arrival of another millennium, and I think people are getting carried away.”