Keeping it In Your Face

Bartlesville Community Center completes extensive audio system revitalization.

While Bartlesville, Okla., may not find itself included in the same sentence as New York or Los Angeles when one discusses performing arts venues, the city’s main cultural facility is at the cutting edge in every sense of the word. This vibrant community of roughly 35,000, some 47 miles due north of Tulsa, is home to the Bartlesville Community Center, a positively stunning complex designed to provide cultural and educational opportunities for the city.

Modesto has a symphony? Who knew?

The Gallo Center for the Arts is a shiny gem in the Central Valley of California, satisfying a need for performing arts in the Modesto community. The center, which opened in September 2007, is home to four resident companies including the Central West Ballet, Modesto Community Concerts Association, Modesto Symphony Orchestra and Townsend Opera Players. With two performance spaces — the 1,250-seat Mary Stuart Rogers  theater and the intimate 444-seat Foster Family  theater — the center is also designed to accommodate a variety of performances, from touring Broadway productions to rock ‘n’ roll concerts. “We’ve seen everything from symphonic and acoustic performances all the way up to Broadway shows and pretty much everything in between. We’ve seen ballet, contemporary dance, even break dancing,” says Brian Svoboda, sound engineer at the Gallo Center for the Arts. “It really is an answer to a call for performing arts in Modesto.”

New install for prestigious music school had to be “beyond reliable.”

It’s hard to imagine a room that sees (and hears) as much music variety as Berklee College of Music’s Performance Center. The space, the largest of five performance centers on campus, is host to at least 200 events a year, which cover everything from classical to electronica, jazz to hard rock, bluegrass to hip-hop, and even delves into the world of avant guard.