"So much of concert-hall design is a matter of chance. Scarbrough talked about working on a concert hall in Nashville. ‘At the outset of the project, I travelled with the board to see seven concert halls, in five cities, in six days,’ he said. One of those was the Musikverein, for an afternoon concert of Dvořák’s Requiem. ‘And, just as the closing chords were sounded, the sun came around the west of the building, and the room flooded with golden light,’ he said. ‘It was everything—music, architecture, acoustics, the natural environment.’ And that is why the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, in Nashville, has windows." -Rivka Galchen, “The New Yorker”