I went to the opening and could not understand why the band that was playing was selected...too loud for the space, discordant, bad...does this make me an old crabby person who doesn't get the current music scene?  Art was interesting!

TimK is so right on this one. The acoustics do indeed suck in the Great Hall. I can never understand what anyone is saying when they're speaking there.

Okay then, how about an "Art Challenge" event--who can figure out how to use the acoustics in that monstrous space to an aesthetically pleasing purpose? I've always thought it's a space that would lend itself to a solo French horn noodling through meditations on mortality. Any other ideas out there?

I think vibraphone, chimes, harp, solo upright bass might work.