1.   This year a memorial hall was built in his honour at his birthplace, Yaotsu.

2.   Because the hall was being built with private donations, Bass raised the money to pay for it.

3.   Before the hall was built, the orchestra had to share the War Memorial building with the San Francisco Opera.

4.   He was determined to see a first-class hall built on a single block for a reasonable price.

5.   Of this ensemble, only two halls were built as planned.

6.   Their preliminary studies led to creation of Performing Arts Fort Worth, the nonprofit group that is building the hall and will manage it after its opening.

7.   Traditional concert halls have been built for classical music, and their long reverberation often makes jazz sound muddled, with too much echo.

8.   We were, after all, building a hall that would be used in the summer and open to the outdoors in a humid climate.

9.   Petronas would not say how much it was spending to organize the symphony or build its hall.

10.   But he admitted that the hall was built without proper permits, the Statesman reported.