A formally written piece written for Oliveto’s newsletter to promote a Chanticleer performance.
“We’ve come to call our acoustically engineered dining room the Magic Room, after the phrase’s coinage in the recent New Yorker article “The Wizard of Sound”. In it, Alex Ross calls John Meyer, the Room’s architect “a vaguely wizard-like seventy-one-year-old with a Tolstoyan beard.” To us, he and everyone at Meyer Sound are indeed wizards, having created an environment where we can closely attend our personal conversations while enjoying the cheery burble of happy diners.”
Cynthia Salaysay 