jamal rossi eastman theater seats about 3,000. 3,094, i think, was the exact seating. that's a big concert hall. carnegie hall is about 2,400, and many of the great halls are right in that area. charlie owens the lack of intimacy in a very large hall that was, of course, built originally to maximize the number of people who could enjoy motion pictures that eastman kodak company wanted to showcase early in their history. it's a beautiful hall, but it was too big. doug lowry the other thing is that aesthetically when an audience goes into a hall and it's 3,200 seats and it's about a third full, it looks very empty. but when you go into a hall now at 2,200 seats, and maybe it's two- thirds full, it feels like it's a sold out house. and believe it or not there is a palpable relationship between how musicians react to a house that's mostly empty as opposed to a house that's close to full. narrator the work would be done in several phases, beginning with the stage itself. the object was to build a new shell for orchestras to perform in - one that could be easily removed for