A Beauty
Adds a Beast
A New Meyer Leopard System at Halifax’s
Rebecca Cohn Auditorium
Halifax’s Rebecca Cohn Auditorium with
Meyer Leopard PA & Digico SD8 at FOH
Rebecca Cohn
Auditorium
Dalhousie Arts Centre
6101 University Ave.
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
800-874-1669
www.dal.ca
By Andrew King | Photos by Bruce Nelson
2018
marks a significant milestone for Dalhousie
University. First established as a nonsectarian
college in 1818, the heralded Halifax-based
institution is celebrating its bicentennial throughout the year with a
series of special events and initiatives.
Coincidentally, 2018 is also a significant year for the Dalhousie
Arts Centre and, more specifically, the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium,
the stunning 1,023-seat multipurpose concert hall and theatre that’s
home to Symphony Nova Scotia and the largest soft-seat theatre in its
historic host city.
A quick scan of the upcoming productions set to take the Cohn’s
47-year-old stage perfectly showcases the diverse array of program-
ming it welcomes. In addition to Symphony Nova Scotia performanc-
es, the summer calendar includes concerts from the likes of Feist, Joe
Jackson, and Nancy Wilson of Heart; British comedian Dylan Moran
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presenting his Grumbling Mustard tour; and the annual showcase
from Halifax Dance.
The vast majority of those and other shows throughout 2018
and beyond will take advantage of a brand new house sound system
built around Meyer Sound’s compact-but-powerful Leopard linear
line array solution.
The system, which was designed and installed by Dartmouth,
NS’s Tour Tech East with support from Meyer’s Canadian distributor,
GerrAudio, is configured much like a touring rig to simplify and
enhance ease-of-use for visiting productions while also enabling a
quick strike should one of them prefer to use a custom loudspeaker
package.
The end result balances an elegance befitting the Cohn’s impres-
sive architecture with the pristine performance and rider-friendliness
of a robust tour-grade system.