Well, unless someone stops this lawless, 34-count convicted felon and adjudicated sexual pervert assaulter (“grab ’em by the pussy”) dictator of The Epstein Class — and I don’t know who that would be since he has no respect for judges/the judicial system (unless they rule in his favour) — I assume the Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall pipe organ will be destroyed in the LOSER’s/dictator’s demolition project, assuming that is allowed to proceed, and assuming he guts the place.  As for The Epstein Class, don’t forget about “beef jerky” and we’re not talking here about what you normally think of as beef jerky.

With the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For the Performing Arts demolition, this dictator/war criminal has talked about keeping some of the steel structure and some of the marble of the building.  I wouldn’t think that he even knows that there is a pipe organ in the Concert Hall, nor would he care about that.  I’m not aware he’s ever been to a performance in the Concert Hall.  This insane nut knows nothing about music, the arts or a performing arts center, or anything else for that matter, it’s not just music.

A large local church in the District, Maryland or Virginia (DMV) might be interested in buying this nice pipe organ, but considering how this vile dictator recklessly destroyed the east wing of the white house without any consequences, I suspect the organ will be disrespected and destroyed too, and treated the same way, if it is his intent to demolish the Concert Hall or the whole building and start over, slap his puss on the new building and call it “[His full name] Entertainment Center, ” which is the language he has used.  The guy is obviously a nut, off-the-latch to be so obsessed with having his name on as many buildings and things as possible.  He’s like the village idiot.

The new president whom the dictator appointed of the Kennedy Center comes from a construction background — WTF? — having nothing to do with music or the performing arts.  Well, it’s just like his thoroughly unqualified for-the-job cabinet and vp choice.  They are all his cultists and deeply reside in his upper colon.  As long as they are devout “maga” trash/cultists, that’s all that matters to him.  They don’t need to know anything about the job he puts them in.  All they need to do is to worship and glorify him.

A judge has been asked to stop the dictator’s plans and keep the Kennedy Center open and intact.

From what I’ve read, there’s nothing wrong with the Kennedy Center in its current state:

“It’s perfect,” said former National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) artistic advisor Ben Folds who resigned after the dictator’s takeover.  From the images I’ve seen of the Kennedy Center, it looks like it did when I performed there over the three years with Norman Scribner’s Choral Arts Society of Washington (NSO) and Dr. Paul Traver’s University of Maryland Chorus (NSO), other than they have since renovated the Concert Hall.

I’m not hot on the renovated Concert Hall, especially the stage area.  They obviously have sound problems because of that mess — the high-tech acoustical canopy — above the stage area which covers up half of the organ pipes.  The Filene Center Organ on the original stage looked so much better (see link down the page; I tried to embed that image but they wouldn’t allow me to do that).

From AI:

“The original Filene organ, installed in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in 1972, was replaced by a new 5,000-pipe Casavant Frères organ in 2012. Named the Rubenstein Family Organ, the current instrument features 4,972 pipes, a “Filene Stop” honoring the original, and weighs 20 tons, providing superior sound for the National Symphony Orchestra.”

Key Details of the New Organ (that replaced the Filene):

• Manufacturer: Casavant Frères of St-Hyacinthe, Québec.
• Installed: 2012 (replaced the 1972 Filene organ, which was deemed unrepairable, in part, due to water that got into the organ pipes; the flat roof leaked at one time).
• Pipes & Structure: Roughly 5,000 pipes, ranging from 0.625 inches to 32 feet long, weighing 20 tons.
• The “Filene Stop”: The new organ incorporates 61 pipes from the original Filene Organ to honor the original donor, Catherine Filene Shouse.
• Performance: The organ can reach 150 decibels, designed to balance with a full orchestra. 

About the Original Filene Organ:

• Built: It was the final instrument constructed by the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company of Boston.
• Installation: Installed in 1972, shortly after the Kennedy Center opened.
• Fate: It was dismantled and replaced in 2012 after being deemed unsalvageable in 2008.  Keys were sticking during performances which made the organ unusable.

When I performed there, I don’t remember hearing anything about any sound problems, even if they existed.

When I was in Margaret Hillis’s and later Vance George’s San Francisco Symphony Chorus, I did hear musicians of the San Francisco Symphony say that they couldn’t hear each other in the newly built Davies Symphony Hall, and they added adjustable transparent sound shields above the stage which I think they raised, lowered and tilted for the sound, which look nothing like the mess above the stage in the Kennedy Center.

One wonders why they didn’t try to emulate Boston’s Symphony Hall which supposedly has superb acoustics — amongst the best in the world — and I think that’s why they’ve not done a major renovation job on BSH, because why mess with something that is not broken?  Boston Symphony Hall looks somewhat outdated compared to the newly renovated Kennedy Center Concert Hall or Davies Symphony Hall, but if the sound is superb, leave Symphony Hall as it is.

From AI: