然而随着城市的发展，周边的环境与上海音乐厅越来越不谐调。音乐厅的南侧紧邻拥挤的居民小区，北侧则是上海市交通主干道之一的延安高架桥，人来车往时常会干扰音乐厅里交响乐的演出。而来此欣赏音乐的人往往还要受到交通不便的烦扰，在停好车后还要走上相当一段距离，因为音乐厅外面根本没有空地做停车场。音乐厅里舞台面积狭小，如果合唱队和乐队同时上场就会显得非常拥挤。考虑到这些原因，上海市政府决定把经历了72年风雨的上海音乐厅纳入人民广场改造的整体工程，音乐厅整体向南平移100米左右，同时音乐厅的门面朝向也要来个大掉个儿，由坐南朝北改为坐北朝南。

However， with the development of the city， Shanghai Odeum is becoming more and more inharmonious with its surroundings for its location between the crowded residential area in the south and the Yan an Viaduct——one of the truck roads in Shanghai in the north. The performances in the Odeum were often disrupted by the passing vehicles， while the audiences coming for the performances were troubled by the inconvenience of transportation quite a lot——they had to walk a rather long distance to reach the odeum because there was not parking lot near it at all. Inside the odeum， the stage is quite small， and would seem much crowed if choir and band appear on the stage at the same time.Given the above-mentioned reasons， Shanghai Municipal Government decides to include the 72-year-old Shanghai Odeum in the People's Square Reconstruction Project. Specifically， the odeum will be translated 100 meters southward. Its gate will also be changed——from north-oriented to south-oriented.