Stage acoustics as perceived by performers can be very different from the acoustic of a hall as heard by the audience. The Music Faculty concert hall here in Cambridge is fine for the audience, but performing there in a large ensemble (as I've done) is very difficult because you can't hear your neighbours. I suspect it may have been designed with chamber concerts in mind as apparently there is less of a problem then. Virginia Knight [log in to unmask] Currently on maternity leave & based in Cambridge Personal homepage: http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/~ggvhk/virginia.html