Dr. Harold Marshall

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  www.acousticalfoundationindia.org/AWARDS.HTM - [Cached Version]
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  v. Prof. A. H. Marshall (Founder President Acoustical Society of New Zeeland), Group consultant of Marshall-day Acoustics Ltd.New Zeeland received the Fifth Mira Paul Memorial Gold Medal for his contribution in Architectural Acoustics on 19 February 2006 at Chennai

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  A. Harold Marshall - [Cached Version]
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  A. Harold Marshall
  
  Professor Harold Marshall is widely known for his discovery of the importance of lateral reflections in the appreciation of concert hall sound, and the subsequent application of this concept in a number of innovative concert hall designs. However, his other contributions to the field of architectural acoustics and other talents may not be so well known.
  
  A Bachelors degree in Physics, an Honors degree in Architecture, and a Ph.D. in Engineering give us an indication of the multidisciplinary skills of this man. However, when these academic qualifications are combined with his skills as a singer, poet, and artist, all channeled with an unbridled enthusiasm, the result could be frightening to some, and awe-inspiring to others. E. J. Richards, founder of the ISVR Southampton, England, once described Harold as "that perpetual motion machine."
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  Harold completed his Bachelor of Architecture in 1956, clearly influenced by his father who was a Professor in Architecture at the University of Auckland, and by his mother who foresaw the importance of a double degree. After a short period in private practice and 6 years as a lecturer at the University of Auckland, he embarked on a Ph.D. at the University of Southhampton in 1966. His dissertation was a multidisciplinary treatis on "The architectural significance of reverberation".
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  In Leo Beranek's words, "Professor Marshall burst onto the scene in 1967 with his concept that, for the sound of the orchestra to be full and rich and to envelop the listener, the hall should provide many sound reflections that reach the listener from lateral directions.
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  Harold was encouraged at this point by Professor Erwin Meyer who received a draft of a "Lateral Sound" paper from this unknown New Zealander, and wrote back saying "It appears you have a new suggestion.
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  This concept might not have attracted so much attention if Harold had not had the confidence and determination to implement his theory in the design of the Christchurch Town Hall in 1968. To provide the necessary lateral reflections in this 2700-seat oval-shaped hall, he designed 14 very large tilted reflecting surfaces inside the boundaries of the room.
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  The Orange County Performing Arts Center's Segerstrom Hall, on which Harold was a co-consultant, is an American example of the extension of his ideas put into practice for a 3000-seat multipurpose concert hall.
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  Harold having lived most of his professional life in the two maritime cities of Perth and Auckland. Most southern hemisphere Christmases and holidays throughout the year will find Harold beating up the coast in their 32-ft. keelboat, or nestled in a little cove, exploring the many deserted islands and inlets of the north island, and even swimming with dolphins.
  
  Most acousticians come from a predominantly technical background-the type when asked "how did you enjoy the music? answer: I don't know, I was to busy listening to the acoustics. Others may come from an architectural background. For Harold Marshall, it is the combination of musician, physicist, architect, educator, bee-keeper, artist, poet, yachtsman, and researcher, that make him a truly remarkable individual, acoustician, and a worthy recipient of this prestigious award.

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  All The Way - August, 1992 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/1/1992    Last Visited: 5/24/2005  

  Harold Marshall, 44, of Dallas, is a Vietnam War veteran and early supporter of Ross Perot.
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  Marshall: More for what he didn't say than what he did.Since he was from the South, I figured he wouldn't give in to the minorities.Being rich, I felt he probably wouldn't be bought off as easily as the rest and that he'd get rid of all these give-away deals.
  
  All The Way: What's your attitude toward the political system?
  
  Marshall: I'm for change.
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  Marshall: He talked and looked like he could get things done.
  
  All The Way: When did you change your mind?Marshall: I was proud when he said he wouldn't have any homosexuals in his cabinet.We all were.Then, he actually met with the queers and announced that he'd picked an avowed lesbian to be the head of his civil rights' department.I soured real fast, then, but didn't give up.
  
  All The Way: What did you do?
  
  Marshall: I heard that Nationalists were trying to meet with him and I waited to see what happened.But he wouldn't see them.He then appointed O.J. Simpson to his staff, I guess to prove that he was really for the minorities.Heck, we're the majority and he was supposed to be our man, for us.
  
  All The Way: When did you quit?
  
  Code Words Backfired
  
  Marshall: When he went begging to the NAACP and said he didn't want any "haters" voting for him.That's the code word, you know, for pro-majority Americans.He showed that he wanted their vote more than mine.
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  Marshall: I'm not sure.Maybe his handlers twisted him.He probably was pro-majority, but once he began giving in to the demands of the homosexuals and minorities he was ruined.

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  Contributors | NZETC - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/1/1990    Last Visited: 10/6/2006  

  Harold Marshall is head of the Acoustic Research Centre at Auckland University and is a consultant on concert halls.

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  Marshall Day Acoustics - Acoustic consultants and... - [Cached Version]
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  Marshall Day Acoustics was established in 1981 by A. Harold Marshall and Christopher Day providing specialised professional consulting services to architects, engineers and industry for major projects.
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  Harold Marshall honoured by the Acoustical Foundation of India

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  Marshall Day Acoustics – Acoustic consultants... - [Cached Version]
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  A. Harold Marshall Marshall Day Acoustics - Acoustic consultants serving Australia, New Zealand and Asia
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  A. Harold Marshall is an architect, engineer and physicist who is recognised internationally for his contribution to concert hall design. Formerly Professor of Architecture in the University of Auckland and Head of the Acoustics Research Centre, Dr Marshall has over 45 years experience in the acoustical design of auditoria and concert halls. His work is widely cited in technical literature and his interest in these fields is sharpened by his active involvement in musical performance as a bass-baritone.
  
  Harold's present task in Marshall Day Acoustics is Group Consultant, leading the conceptual design of concert halls and similar commissions as required by any of the 8 practice offices. This is a role for which his architectural and musical skills have uniquely equipped him to communicate with architects and their clients. Currently he is involved in three major projects in China, two in Australia, one in New Zealand and the Philharmonie de Paris in France.
  
  In 1994 Harold was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. He also holds Fellowships in the Acoustical Society of America, the NZ Institute of Architects and the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.
  
  In 1995 Dr Marshall was awarded the Wallace Clement Sabine Medal by the Acoustical Society of America for his contributions to the field of architectural acoustics, particularly for the understanding and design of concert halls, and in 2006 received the Gold Medal of the Acoustical Foundation of India.
  
  In 2008, Emeritus Professor Marshall was honoured to be appointed Distinguished Companion of The New Zealand Order of Merit for services to acoustical science.

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  Harold Marshall and Christopher Day, spent two weeks in Paris in January, developing the design in intensive workshop sessions with the architects and other consultants.
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  Harold Marshall honoured by Acoustical Foundation of India
  
  The contribution of Harold Marshall to the field of acoustics was recognised once again in February 2006 by the Acoustical Foundation of India.
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  The award was presented to Harold Marshall for "for major sustained and diverse contribution to Acoustics through research on concert halls for audience and performer, and its practical applications in innovative design, to education in Acoustics, and to the several professional societies representing the field of Acoustics"
  
  Presented at Quaid E Millat College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, on February 19, 2006.
  
  Emeritus Professor Harold Marshall receiving the Mira Paul Memorial Gold Medal from Professor H S Paul.
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  From left to right: Prof. H S Paul, Dr Ramachandriah, Dr C P Vendhan, Dr Harold Marshall,
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  Harold Marshall , Marshall Day Acoustics' co-founder, was also responsible for the excellent acoustics of acclaimed Perth Concert Hall .
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  The important assistance provided by Harold Marshall on the Melbourne Recital Centre project was recognised by Melbourne's "The Age" newspaper. The article called "The Keynote is Quality" was written by Robin Usher and acknowledges Harold Marshall's accolades for his contribution to the field of architectural acoustics.

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  Professor AH Marshall FRSNZ - [Cached Version]
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  Emeritus Professor Harold Marshall retired as head of the Acoustics Research Centre in the University of Auckland in 1997.His research over the preceding three decades was centered in the acoustical design of performance spaces - a task for which his background in architecture, science and performance was particularly relevant.Design issues such as acoustics are often inaccessible to generalist architects.The field has developed significantly during these decades and new designs have exposed further fruitful topics for research.Perhaps Dr Marshall's most famous achievement was the discovery of the subjective importance of lateral reflections to the perception of orchestral sound and the development of the spatial impression in halls.This contribution was recognized by the Acoustical Society of America by the award of the Sabine medal for Architectural Acoustics.The architectural significance of reverberation, realization of one- and two-dimensional Schroeder diffusers, the necessary and sufficient acoustical conditions for ease of ensemble for instrumentalists, and the directivity and auditory impressions of singers are further topics on which he and colleagues in the USA, England, Germany and Japan have published seminal work.Under his direction acoustical modeling of auditoria was significantly advanced in Auckland and France by the development of the "MIDAS" software for digital acquisition of acoustical data at all scales from 1:50 to full size.

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  The keynote is quality - General - www.theage.com.au - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/20/2004    Last Visited: 12/20/2004  

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  Acoustics expert Harold Marshall, who is a consultant for the new recital hall being built at Southbank.
  
  Acoustics expert Harold Marshall, who is a consultant for the new recital hall being built at Southbank.
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  Harold Marshall makes his job sound so straightforward."If you get it right, no one gives a thought to acoustics," he says, "they are like an invisible hand."
  
  Marshall is in Melbourne as a consultant to the new recital centre to be built in Southbank by 2008."It's a sign of a job well done if there are no distractions to enjoying the music."
  
  He says people tend to take good acoustics for granted, unless there is something wrong with the sound, or noises from outside are heard intruding inside the building.
  
  Co-founder of Marshall Day Acoustics in 1981, he held a personal chair in architecture at Auckland University, and headed the university's acoustics research centre.He is now an emeritus professor.
  
  His ground-breaking research on concert halls in the late 1960's have had a profound effect on modern-day concert hall design.In 1995, he was awarded the prestigious Wallace Clement Sabine Medal from the Acoustical Society of America "for contributions to the field of architectural acoustics, particularly for the understanding and design of concert halls".
  
  The company he founded is involved in a review of the acoustics for the new recital centre; he describes it as the glamour end of the job.
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  Harold Marshall
  
  Getting the acoustics right in the new centre - which will include the 1000-seat Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Hall, and a 150-seat salon for recording and pre-concert talks - is vital because no changes will be possible after it is completed.
  
  Unlike Hamer Hall, there will be no discs suspended over the stage or other aids to help with the sound.
  
  But Marshall, who is based in New Zealand, says that it is difficult to get things wrong in a hall with 1000 seats."On that scale, everything is at the right distance," he says.
  
  The hall will only host acoustic musicians, because the Melbourne Symphony and other orchestras will remain at Hamer Hall, which he says is too big for chamber music.
  
  "You need to be able to see the musicians," he says."A good recital should be like eavesdropping on a conversation between the players."
  
  It is hoped the recital centre, designed to meet the highest international standards set by London's Wigmore Hall and New York's Lincoln Centre, will attract the same quality of performers.
  
  Marshall says such excellence should be expected as the hall will, for at least the next 50 years, be home to concerts that will be broadcast live to the world via the internet.
  
  But he acknowledges that anything costing about $100 million will carry a lot of prestige, whether it be a building or an aircraft."Buildings like these are very exposed, and a key ingredient to their success is how they are portrayed in the media."
  
  He says the Avery Fisher Hall, home of the New York Philharmonic, has never overcome the early criticisms of its acoustics after it opened more than 40 years ago.
  
  "The most prestigious concert hall in the world never really recovered, despite several attempts to improve it," he says.

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  Welcome to Willoughby City Council - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/27/2004    Last Visited: 9/20/2005  

  The team is lead by Dr A Harold Marshall, recognised as one of the world's most creative concert hall designers.Dr Marshall is an architect and engineer/physicist who has been honoured nationally and internationally for his concert hall design and research.His ground-breaking studies into the importance of room cross-sections in concert halls in the late 1960s have had a profound effect upon modern day concert hall design, and are widely cited in technical literature.Together with Dr Marshall, Marshall Day's Managing Director, Peter Fearnside and other staff have now started to work closely with FJMT Architects on the conceptual design stage of the Civic Place project, planning a stunning, intimate, and beautiful concert hall and theatre.
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  Together with Rod Blackmore, a long-standing member of the Theatre Organ Society of Australia, and Civic Place theatre consultant Rob Mitchell, Dr Marshall and his team started to plan for the preservation and relocation of the Wurlitzer in the new Civic Place Concert Hall.
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  "We are striving to achieve excellence in all aspects of the project and are honoured to have the support and commitment of professionals such as Dr Marshall and his team", said Mayor Pat Reilly.

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