Old hall, new name

The New York Philharmonic’s home in Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall, named for the high-fidelity components mogul, will be renamed David Geffen Hall, as the popular-entertainment mogul – producer of recordings by The Eagles, Nirvana and Joni Mitchell and co-founder of the film-making firm DreamWorks – makes a gift of $100 million toward renovation of the hall, The New York Times’ Robin Pogrebin reports:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/arts/david-geffen-captures-naming-rights-to-avery-fisher-hall-with-donation.html?ref=arts

Renovation of the hall, whose acoustics have been faulted ever since it opened in 1962, is set to begin in 2019, at a cost currently projected at $500 million.