Lenfest Hall opens a new era for Curtis Institute of Music

The singer, a dapper bass-baritone from Texas, has just pulled up to the new building, his personal belongings for the semester in tow. Inside, a Frank Stella sculpture waits to find a perch. The untested harp studio is quiet, its five instruments still and expectant. And one floor up, a fifth-year percussionist from Japan is having a field day in a room strewn with four bass drums, three sets of timpani, four glockenspiels, and more than a hundred various other implements.