Yamaha DC3 NEO Enhances New Notre Dame Performing Arts Center
BUENA PARK, CA (May 13, 2005) — The new Marie P. DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at Notre Dame University is a state-of-the-art facility housing five separate performing arts venues. Each building opens into one epicenter, the Grand Lobby, where a gleaming Yamaha DC3 NEO plays during intermission at all events, during regular daytime hours, and at special functions and receptions.
“The NEO looks like it was born in the Grand Lobby,” says John A. Haynes, director of performing arts at the University of Notre Dame. “The NEO’s wood and metal match our décor perfectly: our walls are stained cherry maple, and signs and hardware are all brushed aluminum. All who see and hear it – a highly differentiated audience of arts consumers, estimated at 150,000 each year – are very intrigued by it.” Haynes placed the NEO in the lobby partly because of a previous experience in a troubled inner city elementary school. “We put a grand piano in the school’s entrance lobby, engaged 30 volunteer pianists to play it each morning, and witnessed the piano’s profoundly calming effect on the children.” Though Haynes simply puts Chopin disks in the NEO, he laughingly says, “we don’t have a problem with rowdy people in our lobby, it has the same effect.”
Shirks Music in Mishawaka, Ind., was responsible for the placement of the NEO in the 150,000-square-foot performing arts center this fall. The building is the first new performance venue on campus since 1881, and it houses The Patricia George Decio Mainstage Theatre, The Judd and Mary Lou Leighton Concert Hall, The Regis Philbin Studio Theater, The Michael Browning Family Cinema, and The Chris & Ann Reyes Organ and Recital Hall. On October 25, Philbin returned to his alma mater to do a live broadcast of NBC’s Regis and Kelly, and a December production of Dead Man Walking was offered at the Philbin Theater. Highlights of the eclectic 2004-2005 season include appearances by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, the New York Philharmonic, The Chieftains, Emanuel Ax and Yefim Bronfman, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Natalie McMaster, Second City Comedy Troupe, and The Emerson String Quartet. The facility also houses offices for the Department of Film, Television and Theatre, classrooms, editing studios, a recording studio, a scene- and prop-construction shop, a sound stage, a costume shop, a computer-aided design lab, a lighting lab, musical and theater rehearsal halls and more.
The impressive $63.6 million Performing Arts Center originated with a $33 million pledge from mall magnate, philanthropist, and former San Francisco 49ers owner Edward J. DeBartolo, and now bears the name of his mother. Notre Dame is rated among the nation's top 25 institutions of higher learning in surveys conducted by U.S. News & World Report, Princeton Review, Time, Kiplinger's and Kaplan/Newsweek.
For more information, write Yamaha Corporation of America, Piano Division, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622; telephone (714) 522-9011, or e-mail infostation@yamaha.com.
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Shirks Music in Mishawaka, Ind., was responsible for the placement of the NEO in the 150,000-square-foot performing arts center this fall. The building is the first new performance venue on campus since 1881, and it houses The Patricia George Decio Mainstage Theatre, The Judd and Mary Lou Leighton Concert Hall, The Regis Philbin Studio Theater, The Michael Browning Family Cinema, and The Chris & Ann Reyes Organ and Recital Hall. On October 25, Philbin returned to his alma mater to do a live broadcast of NBC’s Regis and Kelly, and a December production of Dead Man Walking was offered at the Philbin Theater. Highlights of the eclectic 2004-2005 season include appearances by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, the New York Philharmonic, The Chieftains, Emanuel Ax and Yefim Bronfman, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Natalie McMaster, Second City Comedy Troupe, and The Emerson String Quartet. The facility also houses offices for the Department of Film, Television and Theatre, classrooms, editing studios, a recording studio, a scene- and prop-construction shop, a sound stage, a costume shop, a computer-aided design lab, a lighting lab, musical and theater rehearsal halls and more.
The impressive $63.6 million Performing Arts Center originated with a $33 million pledge from mall magnate, philanthropist, and former San Francisco 49ers owner Edward J. DeBartolo, and now bears the name of his mother. Notre Dame is rated among the nation's top 25 institutions of higher learning in surveys conducted by U.S. News & World Report, Princeton Review, Time, Kiplinger's and Kaplan/Newsweek.
For more information, write Yamaha Corporation of America, Piano Division, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622; telephone (714) 522-9011, or e-mail infostation@yamaha.com.
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