Tom Duly

Review of Prelude at The Green Music Cen...

I love this place. We live close by and I take pe...

I love this place. We live close by and I take personal pride in having this facility near our home. The quality of sound is amazing and most concerts there have been simply spectacular. We have been to many concerts both in Weill Hall and Schroeder Hall - amazing sound quality.

Unfortunately that was not the case for Diana Ross tonight. Concert started at 7:30 and we left by 8:00. It's 8:30 now and I'm at home in my PJs writing this. The sound engineers set up the systems for a stadium while this is a fine concert hall. You could replicate the experience turning the treble and volume on your system up full and going into your bathroom to listen - everything was horribly distorted. I don't know if it was Diana Ross' entourage that insisted on this or if it was just a poor decision, but we found it an assault on our senses and best to simply leave.

I highly recommend the Green Music Center for most concerts! Everything else we have heard there ( over a dozen concerts) was between "really good" and "great"! I suspect Diana Ross still has her voice from what I heard, but it was really hard to tell with all the distortion. I hope they learn from this experience - although I was in the minority. Most people seemed to stick it out.