So, for "Justice," Harvard set up extra lights and microphones in Sanders Theater, a stately, stadium-style hall.
Mr. Obama's speech on Tuesday, in an ornate Spanish colonial-style hall in Havana, was not only strikingly personal.
The itinerary embraces outer space, an Amazonian jungle, a smart New York supper club and a Busby Berkeley-style hall of mirrors, with a side trip to hell.
By this time Edward Palmer York and Philip Sawyer were the Microsoft of bank design, and they produced a Byzantine-style hall of giant arches, varied marbles and mosaics and a great wooden beamed ceiling.
"I love that he carries the family values with him," said Becky Boydstun, 37, a stay-at-home mother from Frisco, Tex., who stood on a bench outside the packed barn-style hall in Plano trying to hear his speech.
More than tradition, what the ensemble has going for it is the concert hall that gave it its name: a classic rectangular European-style hall, surrounded by a balcony, with a flat floor, a raised stage and great acoustics.
The Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall, Fourth and Calhoun Streets downtown, (817) 212-4325, www.basshall.com, plays host to a variety of events, from ballet to classical to popular music, in a classic European opera house-style hall.
In "Valhalla," the strained comedy that opened last night at the New York Theater Workshop, Eden comes equipped with a ravishing artificial grotto, a Versailles-style hall of mirrors and a gold-encrusted bed, for starters.
But the ensemble, conducted by the dynamic Marin Alsop, is starting a series of chamber orchestra concerts tonight in the 200-seat salon-style hall of the Morgan Library.
Speaking directly to Mr. Castro, who watched from a balcony in the ornate Spanish colonial-style hall, Mr. Obama said the United States had no intention of imposing its economic or political principles on Cuba.
