Walt Disney Concert Hall - 4 #2
by David Bearden
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Walt Disney Concert Hall - 4 #2
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David Bearden
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The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in Downtown of Los Angeles, California, is the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center and was designed by Frank Gehry. It opened on October 24, 2003. Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, and 1st and 2nd Streets, it seats 2,265 people and serves, among other purposes, as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. The hall is a compromise between an arena seating configuration, like the Berliner Philharmonie by Hans Sharon, and a classical shoebox design like the Vienna Musikverein or the Boston Symphony Hall.
Lillian Disney made an initial gift of $50 million in 1987 to build a performance venue as a gift to the people of Los Angeles and a tribute to Walt Disney's devotion to the arts and to the city. The Frank Gehry-designed building opened on October 24, 2003. Both Gehry's architecture and the acoustics of the concert hall, designed by Minoru Nagata] the final completion supervised by Nagata's assistant and protege Yasuhisa Toyota, have been praised.
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July 25th, 2017
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GS Kendall
Part metallic ribbon, part ancient Greek trireme, part something from a Fellini movie set — however you look at it, it is fascinating and you have captured so many intriguing things here… A marvelous series of images, David…
David Bearden replied:
Gary, thanks for your kind words...it is an amazing achievement, even for LA, even for Gehry...is really his signature style and a companion piece to the Bilbao Museum in the Basque Country, Spain...
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