Chicago Ideas Week 2018

Oct. 25, 2018

The School of Music hosted a Chicago Ideas Week lab in the new Holtschneider Performance Center on Thursday, Oct. 18, to showcase the building's acoustics. Guests heard from the building's acoustic designer and toured three performance venues.

Chicago Ideas Week is a week-long event that brings together thought leaders from a variety of fields for a series of discussions and panels that take place in front of a live audience.

Ron Caltabiano, right, dean of the School of Music at DePaul University, greets the Chicago Ideas Week participants as they enter the new Holtschneider Performance Center, to learn about the building's acoustics. Guests heard from the acoustic designer of the facility, Joseph Myers, left, as they toured three different performance venues. (DePaul University/Jamie Moncrief)

Joseph Myers, president of the acoustic design company Kirkegaard Associates, greets the Chicago Ideas Week participants as they assemble in DePaul’s Holtschneider Performance Center to learn about the building's acoustics. (DePaul University/Jamie Moncrief)

A string quartet of student musicians greets the Chicago Ideas Week participants as they tour the Allen Recital Hall at DePaul’s new Holtschneider Performance Center during a learning laboratory. (DePaul University/Jamie Moncrief)

Joseph Myers, president of the acoustic design company Kirkegaard Associates, explains the acoustic properties inside the School of Music's Allen Recital Hall as Chicago Ideas Week participants tour DePaul’s new Holtschneider Performance Center during a learning laboratory. (DePaul University/Jamie Moncrief)

Michael Sportiello, technical director at DePaul's School of Music, uses a remote control to adjust the acoustical curtains inside the Allen Recital Hall at the Holtschneider Performance Center during a Chicago Ideas Week tour of the facility. (DePaul University/Jamie Moncrief)

Soprano Emily Margevich leads Chicago Ideas Week guests in a rendition of "Happy Birthday," as they test the acoustics inside the Holtschneider Performance Center's Gannon Concert Hall. (DePaul University/Jamie Moncrief)

DePaul music students perform in the Corboy Jazz Hall for guests as they tour the Holtschneider Performance Center during Chicago Ideas Week. (DePaul University/Jamie Moncrief)

Chicago Ideas Week participants listen as Joseph Myers, president of the acoustic design company Kirkegaard Associates, center, explains the intricate acoustic properties inside the School of Music's Gannon Concert Hall. (DePaul University/Jamie Moncrief)