Valley Peforming Arts Center getting ready for its closeup

This is a story that could really benefit from a little audio. The $125 million building at Cal State Northridge is still under construction. But the sound consultants have already begun tuning the concert hall's acoustics, with the help of a single pianist at a Steinway. From the Daily News' Dana Bartholomew:

Yen played.

She played soft, then ever and ever louder, the notes improvised from a Chinese Christian hymn soaring overhead.

They swirled about the 85-foot fly-tower above. Bore wings through the 55-foot proscenium, into the upper balcony and over the rooftop terrace. Filled box seats of blond anigre wood.

And cast a warm glow across the hardened faces of construction workers who'd worked 30 months to make the musical event possible.

The center opens with a gala on January 29.

Daily News photo: Hans Gutknecht