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4d theater denver12/8/2023 Part of the Denver Performing Arts Complex, which is managed by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA), North America’s largest not-for-profit theatre organization, Buell Theatre will host several world-class productions such as Mamma Mia, Frozen, Hamilton, The King and I and Aladdin this year alone. The horsehead fiddle music complements the traditional folk music along the pathway, and draws guests’ attention to the mural of the “Tale of Cuckoo Namjil” beside it.The Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre (or Buell Theatre for short), is a 2,839 capacity venue specifically designed with acoustic enhancement and state-of-the-art lighting and effects, making it the premier choice for touring Broadway productions, amplified musicals, dramatic plays and comedy acts. I devised a solution for the actual horsehead fiddle from Mongolia, that sits on the wall of the building, to magically play traditional “long songs” as guests pass by the building to take their seats in the theater. In his grief, he made a fiddle from his horse’s skin and tail, and used it to play poignant songs about his horse and his beloved. When Namjil woke up, his magic horse was dead. But one night, a jealous woman from a rich family in his neighborhood cut off the wings of his horse after he fell sleep. Namjil secretly flew to his beloved on his winged horse almost every night. When the period of military service ended, Namjil’s beloved gave him a magic winged horse, which made it possible for him to travel to be with her. During the years of military service, he fell in love with the daughter of a local prince. He sang so beautiful that people called him Namjil the Cuckoo. Once upon a time, a horse herder Namjil from the eastern outskirts of Mongolia was drafted into an army and began to serve on the westernmost border of Mongolia. One of the most famous legends of the origin of the horsehead fiddle is “The Tale of Cuckoo Namjil.” The story goes like this: Stories are used to build relationships, preserve culture and as verbal art. Keeping stories alive is important to Mongolians. Stories were passed down through generations of oral storytelling. For many years, the nomadic Mongolian people did not have a written language. Perhaps the most exotic bowed string instrument in the world is the Mongolian horsehead fiddle, with the headpiece made in a shape of a horse’s head, and an unusually deep and rich sound that sounds almost like a horse neighing. This was also the first project that I implemented a new parkwide digital audio signal processing standard, which enables parkwide paging over the network in the event of an evacuation or other emergency. The music volume adjusts itself based on the volume of the crowd in the queue for the theater. Mongolian folk music plays throughout the attraction, with loudspeakers hidden in the landscaping beds. Mongolian artist Tsogo Mijid was commissioned to design and paint traditional Mongolian design patterns and large scale murals around the theatre building. The murals on the building are of the Mongolian folk stories, “Four Harmonious Animals,” and “The Tale of Cuckoo Namjil.” The theatre architecture itself is based on the architecture of a Mongolian monastery. The theater is in the Mongolian section of the Zoo, and, since movies are stories, the building is themed with Mongolian folk stories. The Denver Zoo commissioned a new 4D Theatre building to bring new opportunities for supplemental sales as well as attract new audiences.
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