The crown jewel of the $27 million Granoff Music Center is the 300-seat Distler Performance Hall, an acoustically separate “box-within-a-box” that was designed to be a showcase for live acoustic performances. The hall is “acoustically sealed”—meaning sounds from without will not interfere with performances, and sounds from within will not interrupt teaching or other functions elsewhere in the building. Even the ventilation and lighting systems have been designed to be silent—no humming, no buzzing, no blowing. Ideally tuned for Western classical chamber music, the Distler Hall is a world-class place in which to perform and listen to all kinds of music.