Abbey Lincoln Smithsonian Interview Block 313 (Q12071)

Yes. You know why it's a concert hall? Because it's built for sound, for one thing. It's built to view. A theater is to see. That's what the word means. To see. Now, how can you see with posts and things around in the dark? Jazz rooms were made, they were brothels where people with shady characters come and pick up each other and it was all that we could afford as a people as a theater. It's n ...