This interview with Leo Beranek includes the following topics: childhood musical experiences, his studies with symphony timpanist Edward Metzenger, playing in the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra, graduate school studies at Harvard University in acoustics with Frederick Hunt, designing the anechoic chamber at Harvard, teaching and research at the Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT), violin acoustics, experiments with Jascha Heifetz, scientific and artistic creativity, the Council for the Arts at MIT, acoustical engineering and design of the MIT Kresqe Auditorium and Chapel, essential principles of concert hall acoustics, orchestral conductors opinions on acoustics.