Daily News | A look inside the Curtis Institute’s $15 million renovation
Cleaner stone work is shown outside the arches of the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. Pa. Wednesday, Feb 23. 2022.Renovations to the Curtis's historic building on Rittenhouse Square. Historic restoration has been undertaken on some parts of the building, while a new black box theater has been added.
“It is a change philosophically for the school. There’s no question that we want to be a more open and accessible place,” said Larry Bomback, Curtis administration senior vice president. “That was one of the big reasons for doing this project in the first place, was to make it more accessible, to have more people come into the doors.”
Carved out of what was previously the roof, the fourth floor’s mini black-box space, called the Media and Innovation Lab, is a techy answer to the larger existing black-box opera theater. There’s also a new network of back-of-house corridors that allow better access throughout.and buildings were emptied, and the school’s trustees approved a version of the renovation that was completed in less than 18 months.
These renovations can be seen as a continuation of a cracking open of the Curtis cloister that began several decades ago when more concerts were extended to the public. Calls have intensified in recent years for classical music to shatter its perceived elitism and to bring the public into the process. The new Media and Innovation Lab, seen by Curtis as a place to marry art and technology, is promising.
For visitors, there’s no question that the semipublic spaces are steeped in the past. A museum-like aura has been retained in the director’s office, where a Norman Rockwell portrait of Curtis founder Mary Louise Curtis Bok looks on. The school’s original charter, carrying signatures of Bok and Curtis family members, now displays over the grand Bok Room mantel.
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