Walt Disney Concert Hall [SEP] architect
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Frederick M. Nicholas


Nicholas hired Frank Gehry as architect and supervised the design and construction of the Building. He headed the architectural committee for the development of the MOCA building on Grand Avenue, supervised architect Arata Isozaki and was in charge of the construction project for 5 years. Nicholas served as the first Chairman of the Walt Disney Concert Hall Committee, guiding the development of the building. He created the program and architectural infrastructure for the Concert Hall including the selection of the architect, Frank Gehry and the acoustician, Nagata & Associates. He served as
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Frederick M. Nicholas


Angeles; Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Los Angeles; Leslie Sacks Fine Arts, Los Angeles; Long Fine Arts, New York; Gallery Maurice, Massachusetts. In the late 1980s, Mrs. Walt Disney gave the Music Center of Los Angeles, a gift of $50,000,000 to build a Concert Hall honoring her husband Walt Disney in Downtown, Los Angeles. In 1987, Dan Frost, Chairman of the Music Center chose Frederick M. Nicholas to head the Walt Disney Concert Hall Committee and undertake the development of a concert hall at 1st and
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Los Angeles Music Center


Wagner's Tristan and Isolde directed by Jonathan Miller and designed by David Hockney. On October 23, 2003 The Music Center opened the Frank-Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, expanding the campus to . The 2,265-seat Concert Hall is home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Walt Disney Concert Hall includes the 266-seat Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) and outdoor program areas including the W. M. Keck Foundation Children’s Amphitheatre, seating 250-300 and the Nadine and Ed Carson amphitheatre
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Scharoun, 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
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Toyota, have been praised, in contrast to its predecessor, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The project was initiated in 1987, when Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, donated $50 million. Frank Gehry delivered completed designs in 1991. Construction of the underground parking garage began in 1992 and was completed in 1996. The garage cost had been $110 million, and was paid for by Los Angeles County, which sold bonds to provide the garage under the site of the planned hall. Construction of the concert hall itself
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Lillian Disney


's death in 1966, Disney was married to John L. Truyens from May 1969 until his death in February 1981. In 1987, she pledged a $50 million gift towards the construction of a new concert hall in Los Angeles. After several delays, the Walt Disney Concert Hall opened in 2003, six years after her death. She also helped fund the founding of The California Institute of the Arts. In the 1990s, reflecting on her 41-year marriage to Walt Disney, she said, "We shared a wonderful, exciting
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Los Angeles Junior Philharmonic Orchestra


a Platinum Concert Spectacular on June 10, 2007 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The sponsor was Smith Barney. The concert highlighted the Jr. Philharmonic Orchestra with myriad composers, musicians, celebrities, plus an all-alumni orchestra. At the event, Katz's great-niece, Victoria Gordon, became the youngest-ever soloist at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The LA Junior Philharmonic celebrated its 75th Anniversary on June 6, 2012. This concert, which took place several years after the death of Dr. Katz
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Diane Disney Miller


as both parents were very protective, caring and loving. Miller was instrumental in pushing ahead with the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles. The project was initiated with a $50 million gift from her mother in 1988, but was stalled for a time due to cost negotiations. She was an ardent supporter of architect Frank Gehry as its designer. The hall finally opened in 2004. After devoting her earlier life to raising her seven children, Miller undertook an active advocacy to document the life and accomplishments of her father
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Dorothy Buffum Chandler


womanhood." The Los Angeles Music Center held its first performance on December 6, 1964. The complex was completed in 1967, consisting of three venues: the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, named in honor of Chandler, the Mark Taper Forum and the Ahmanson Theatre. The Chandler Pavilion served as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1964 until 2003, when the Music Center opened its fourth hall, the Walt Disney Concert Hall. On September 17, 2005, the Walt Disney Concert Hall held a Dorothy Chandler memorial concert.
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The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South Grand Avenue in downtown 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
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Symphony No. 4 (Pärt)


score indicates: "Pӓrt was further inspired to take the commission by the idea of seeing this work performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, one of the best orchestras in the world, under its music director Esa-Pekka Salonen, and in Walt Disney Concert Hall, one of the most exciting concert buildings of our time." Symphony No. 4 was premiered January 10, 2009, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, under Esa-Pekka Salonen. It was the second
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Frank Gehry


building of our time", the museum became famous for its striking yet aesthetically pleasing design and the economic effect that it had on the city. Since then, Gehry has regularly won major commissions and has further established himself as one of the world's most notable architects. His best received works include several concert halls for classical music, such as the boisterous and curvaceous Walt Disney Concert Hall (2003) in Downtown Los Angeles, which has been the centerpiece of the neighborhood's revitalization and has been labeled by the "Los
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The County expected to repay the garage debts by revenue coming from the Disney Hall parking users. Upon completion in 2003, the project cost an estimated $274 million; the parking garage alone cost $110 million. The remainder of the total cost was paid by private donations, of which the Disney family's contribution was estimated to $84.5 million with another $25 million from The Walt Disney Company. By comparison, the three existing halls of the Music Center cost $35 million in the 1960s (about $190 million
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Culture of Los Angeles


Orchestra now performs at Walt Disney Concert Hall after having spent many years in residence at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and performs summer concerts at the Hollywood Bowl. The Los Angeles Master Chorale also calls the Walt Disney Concert Hall home. The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is also the residence of the Los Angeles Opera and Dance at the Music Center. The Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, and the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, are home to the Center Theatre Group, directed by Michael Ritchie.Contemporary Opera Los Angeles presents performances
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Contemporary architecture


concrete. The shell touches the ground at only two points. The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (2003) is one of the major works by California architect Frank Gehry The exterior is stainless steel, formed like the sails of sailboats. The interior is in the Vineyard style, with the audience surrounding the stage. Gehry designed the dramatic array of pipes of the organ to complement the exterior style of the building. The Casa da Musica in Porto, Portugal, by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas (2005) is
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Sculpture (Lindberg)


Sculpture is an orchestral composition by the Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg. The music was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic with support from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation to celebrate the orchestra's inaugural season at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Its world premiere was given by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen on October 6, 2005. "Sculpture" has a duration of roughly 23 minutes and is cast in one continuous movement. Its composition was largely inspired by the design of the Walt Disney Concert Hall by the
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Dan Dworsky


Commencement Exercises in June. The major works credited to Dworsky and his firm include the following: Dworsky has received numerous national, regional and community awards for design excellence, including the following: In February 1989, the Walt Disney Concert Hall Committee selected Dworsky as executive architect to work with designated architect Frank Gehry in designing the future home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Dworsky was selected to translate Gehry's conceptual designs into working drawings that would meet building code specifications. By 1994, the cost of the project had skyrocketed to $
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao


with the individual building trades to control costs during construction. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines donated $1,000,000 towards its construction. In the fall of 1993, architects at Gehry Partners began to utilize Dassault Systemes’ CATIA software for the schematic design phase of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to digitize and model the exterior of the Museum project.  The architects applied Master Modeling and Virtual Build Processes they learned from Rick Smith and his use of the same techniques on the Walt Disney Concert Hall during the previous two years. The success and global awareness of
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Diane Disney Miller


Together, Diane and Ron had several children whom they were survived by: Tamara Scheer, Patrick D., Jennifer Miller-Goff, Christopher D., Walter Elias, Joanna. Ronald then served in the Army and played professional football before Walt convinced him to work the Walt Disney Studios, and ascended from film directing and production to president and CEO of what is now The Walt Disney Company. In 1988, Lillian Disney, her mother, announced plans to contribute $50 million to the Los Angeles Concert Hall in Downtown Los Angeles
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Convention of the American Guild of Organists. The organ had its public debut in a non-subscription recital performed by Frederick Swann on September 30, 2004, and its first public performance with the Philharmonic two days later in a concert featuring Todd Wilson. The organ's façade was designed by architect Frank Gehry in consultation with organ consultant and tonal designer Manuel Rosales. Gehry wanted a distinctive, unique design for the organ. He would submit design concepts to Rosales, who would then provide feedback. Many of Gehry's early designs
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Zev Yaroslavsky


and maintenance fund to replace the deteriorating 1929 shell, which angry preservationists had sought but failed to save during a two-year court battle. The new shell—praised by members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for its acoustics and larger size—was unveiled in June, 2004. Yaroslavsky played a key role among local elected officials in the construction of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles. He appropriated $1 million to help build architect Frank Gehry's distinctive hall, which opened in 2003. In 2007, Yaroslavsky
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Concord-Carlisle High School


band in Japan. The joint concert by these two bands took place in Sapporo at the world-renowned Sapporo Concert Hall. Additionally, the CCHS Concert Band has won a gold medal at the annual Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association invitational for the past 19 consecutive years, earning the chance to perform at Tanglewood, Boston's Symphony Hall and Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts numerous times. In April 2008, the Orchestra and Chorus traveled to Walt Disney World to perform in Festival Disney. Competing separately, this was the Orchestra
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Gil Garcetti


with life in prison without the possibility of parole. Garcetti has argued that the death penalty is broken beyond repair, that it is "horrendously expensive" and that it carries the risk of executing an innocent person. Garcetti has always been an avid urban photographer. During his time as district attorney he would carry a small camera with him at all times. After leaving the DA's office, Garcetti focused on art photography, initially producing two collections on the Walt Disney Concert Hall: "Iron: Erecting the Walt Disney Concert
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REDCAT


time. The art center consists of a gallery space with revolving exhibitions, a 200–270-seat flexible black box theater, and a lounge cafe/bar hosting public conversations and a bookstore offering diverse art publications. As the Walt Disney Concert Hall came under construction in 1992, Roy E. Disney, son of Roy O. and Edna Disney, saw an opportunity for California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA to have a presence downtown. With the approval of The Walt Disney Company's Board of Directors and support from the County of Los
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Timothy Archambault


in Chelsea, Manhattan (commissioned in 2001 and completed in 2002), and the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre at the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts in Dallas, Texas (commissioned in 2004 and scheduled to be completed in 2008). Prior to joining OMA in 1999, and helping to establish its New York office, he worked for Pasanella+Klein Stolzman+Berg Architects in New York on the Pratt Stabile Hall Dormitory, and for Frank O. Gehry and Associates in Los Angeles on the Samsung Museum of Contemporary Art and the Walt Disney Concert
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James Stirling (architect)


Center for the Performing Arts at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; and the Biological Sciences Library at the University of California, Irvine. Among unrealized projects in the US are designs for Columbia University and a competition proposal for the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. In 1981, Stirling was awarded the Pritzker Prize. Stirling received a series of important commissions in England – the Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection at the Tate Britain, London (1980–87); the Tate Liverpool (1984, but since then heavily altered
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Wing on Wing


Wing on Wing is a single-movement composition for two sopranos and orchestra by the Finnish composer Esa-Pekka Salonen. The work was commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic for their inaugural season at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and was premiered June 5, 2004 by the orchestra under Salonen. The piece is dedicated to the architect Frank Gehry, the acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota, and the L.A. Philharmonic CEO Deborah Borda. "Wing on Wing" has a duration of roughly 27 minutes and is composed in one continuous movement. The title
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Christoph Bull


Christoph Bull (born August 27, 1966) is a German composer, musician and educator, and a Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) who was the first organist to record a complete commercial album at the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles California using the Frank Gehry co-designed Glatter-Götz/Rosales organ, 2010's "First & Grand Walt Disney Concert Hall Premiere Recording". Christoph is also the creator of Organica, a multi-media concert and recorded album series that has been performed regularly since April 1999
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Rueibin Chen


Mann Auditorium (Tel Aviv), Opera House (Sydney), Carnegie Hall (NY), Lincoln Center (NY), Kennedy Center (Washington D.C.), Davies Symphony Hall (San Francisco), Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), Segerstrom Concert Hall (Southern California), Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles), Verizon Wireless Amphitheater (Southern California), Suntory Hall (Tokyo), the Concert Hall at National Center for the Performing Arts (Beijing), Oriental Art Center (Shanghai), Cultural
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Sketches of Frank Gehry


Sketches of Frank Gehry is a 2006 American documentary film directed by Sydney Pollack and produced by Ultan Guilfoyle, about the life and work of the Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. The film was screened out of competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Pollack and Gehry had been friends and mutual admirers for years. The film features footage of various Gehry-designed buildings, including Anaheim Ice (the training rink of the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim), the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. It was
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Manuel Rosales (organ builder)


classical and romantic lines, its full ensemble is intended to evoke the powerful and fiery tone found in the works of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll. Rosales consulted on the organ for the Walt Disney Concert Hall, working for two years with architect Frank Gehry to arrive at a solution that would integrate Gehry’s sculptural vision of an explosion of pipework with the musical requirements for a functional organ. Later, Glatter-Götz Orgelbau company of Owingen, Germany, built the instrument and installed it in 2004, with Rosales completing the finishing and
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Norman Lear


register and vote. Since then, it has registered almost 4 million young people. Lear was one of 98 "prominent members of Los Angeles' Jewish community" that signed an open letter supporting the proposed nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers led by the United States. The letter called for the resolution of the bill, warning that the killing of the agreement by Congress would be a "tragic mistake". The letter was also signed by billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad; Walt Disney Concert Hall architect Frank Gehry; "
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Wing on Wing


and composition of the piece are inspired by the architecture of the Walt Disney Concert Hall, which architect Frank Gehry likened to the appearance of a sailboat with its foresail and mainsail opened to a 180-degree angle. Salonen commented on the composition in the score program notes, writing: The music also incorporates the sounds of a plainfin midshipman and the sampled voice of Frank Gehry. "Wing on Wing" is scored for two sopranos and an orchestra comprising four flutes (3rd doubling alto flute, 1st doubling alto flute and bass flute)
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Svetlana Smolina


Album for the Chopin iTunes Project, Benjamin Britten Young Apollo live recording from Walt Disney Hall for BCM+D records and broadcasts for NPR, BBC, PBS, RAI, Cultura TV and other networks. In the summer of 2011, Smolina joined iPalpiti Festival of International Laureates in Los Angeles, making her debut at Walt Disney Concert Hall with iPalpiti Orchestra (Eduard Schmieder, conductor). Since 2011, Smolina is directing the piano program at Philadelphia International Music Festival. In 2014, she was appointed as Artist in Residence in Temple University
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial


capital. According to "Washingtonian" magazine, commission chairman Siciliano early on raised the name of architect Frank Gehry as a potential designer. Siciliano was already friends with Gehry: They both lived in Santa Monica, California, and Siciliano's late wife had introduced them. Siciliano also sat on the board of directors of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which in 1991 commissioned Gehry to design its Walt Disney Concert Hall. (The auditorium opened in 2003 to critical acclaim.) Several Eisenhower family members, however, expressed their desire for
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Peter Alexander (artist)


1964–65 and 1965–66). After initially working as an architect, he rose to prominence in the 1960s with translucent resin sculptures. He has also produced paintings, including a series that depicts luminous aerial views of the city lights stretching across the Los Angeles basin. He also was commissioned to paint a large mural for the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. His art has appeared in the films "Erin Brockovich", "Terminator 3" and "Shopgirl". He was a longtime friend of Christopher Isherwood. A portrait
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Belzberg Architects


the firm was awarded the contract to design a high-end restaurant, café, and Los Angeles Philharmonic gift store located within Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, commissions that garnered critical acclaim and international recognition. Another major turning point for the firm was the much-lauded Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust in Pan Pacific Park. Completed in 2010, the 32,000sqft subterranean building is certified-LEED-Gold and is one of the few projects that has been the recipient of both the AIA Institute Honor Awards
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Binoculars Building


The Chiat/Day Building (unofficially referred to as the Binoculars Building) is a commercial building located in Venice, Los Angeles, California, which incorporates the public artwork "Giant Binoculars" by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen on its street-facing facade. Built between 1991 and 2001 for advertising agency Chiat/Day (now TBWA\Chiat\Day) as its West Coast corporate headquarters, it was designed by Los Angeles architect Frank Gehry, and was his last project in Los Angeles until the Walt Disney Concert Hall began construction in 1999
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Jon Drezner


Jon Drezner is an American architect and designer. He worked with Frank Gehry and Gehry Partners in the 1990s on projects including the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Gehry House. He founded his own architecture firm, Drezner Architecture, in 1997, with initial projects including the Toyota Sports Center and 1428 Chelten Way, a residential project. He relocated to Princeton, New Jersey in 2003, where his work has focused on residential projects in the area, notably a residence at 98 Battle Road. Drezner grew up in Princeton and attended
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Distinguished Concerts International New York


Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) is a music entertainment production company that stages concerts for individual performers and performing groups in music venues such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York City, and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California. Performance repertoire ranges from Handel’s "Messiah" to contemporary a cappella. DCINY was founded by Iris Derke and Jonathan Griffith in 2007 and is currently headquartered in New York City. DCINY produced its first concert on January 21, 2008, at Carnegie Hall. As of
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Walt Disney World Dolphin


The Walt Disney World Dolphin is a resort hotel designed by architect Michael Graves located between Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios in the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, next to Disney's BoardWalk Resort area. It opened on June 1, 1990 and is joined to its sister hotel, the Walt Disney World Swan (also designed by Graves) by a palm-tree lined covered walkway crossing a lagoon. The Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin is a joint venture between the Walt Disney Company, Tishman Hotel Corporation
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Anush Nikogosyan


a soloist, in August 2014 she was invited to the Rimini Meeting Festival, the Festival della Nazioni in Citta di Castello, Ravello Music Festival (Italy), in October 2014 - the Brucknerfest (Austria), the Yerevan International Music Festival. She played in concert halls: Alte Oper Frankfurt, Opéra de Nice, the Brucknerhaus Linz, the Konzerthaus Klagenfurt, Warsaw National Philharmonic Hall, the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall Yerevan, the BASF Ludwigshafen Konzerthaus and others. In May 2015, she debuted at the Walt Disney Concert Hall
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Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra


the 2021/22/season. The Orchestra maintains a robust touring schedule, and appears regularly at the Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Tanglewood, Weill Concert Hall at the Green Music Center, and Bing Concert Hall at Stanford University. In 2005 Philharmonia debuted at the BBC Proms, Snape Maltings (UK) and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam as part of a European tour. In May 2016, PBO completed two North American multi-city tours, including debuts in Canada, followed by appearances at Tanglewood and Yale
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Copenhagen


Designed by Jean Nouvel, it has four halls with the main auditorium seating 1,800 people. It serves as the home of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and along with the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles is the most expensive concert hall ever built. Another important venue for classical music is the Tivoli Concert Hall located in the Tivoli Gardens. Designed by Henning Larsen, the Copenhagen Opera House ("Operaen") opened in 2005. It is among the most modern opera houses in the world. The Royal Danish Theatre also
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Miami Beach, Florida


home to the New World Symphony, established in 1987 under the artistic direction of Michael Tilson Thomas. In January 2011, the New World Symphony made a highly publicized move into the New World Center building designed by Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry. Gehry is famous for his design of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California. The new Gehry building offers Live Wallcasts™, which allow visitors to experience select events throughout the season at the half-
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David Fung


International Festival, the Ravinia Festival, then Atlantic Music Festival, the Bari International Music Festival in Italy, Music at Menlo in California, New York's Carnegie Hall and Merkin Hall, Los Angeles' Walt Disney Concert Hall and Royce Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, Scotland's Queen’s Hall, Belgium's La Monnaie, Toronto's Glenn Gould Studio, the Sydney Opera House, the National Concert Hall in Taiwan, and Israel's Mann Auditorium. His debut at the Edinburgh International Festival Queen’s Hall Series was acclaimed as
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Walt Disney World Swan


The Walt Disney World Swan is a resort hotel designed by architect Michael Graves located between Epcot and Disney's Hollywood Studios behind Disney's BoardWalk Resort and across from its sister resort, the Walt Disney World Dolphin. The Swan, which opened January 13, 1990 on Disney property, is a joint venture between the Walt Disney Company, Tishman Hotel Corporation, MetLife and Starwood Hotels and Resorts. The land the resort occupies is owned by the Walt Disney Company, while the buildings themselves are leased by Disney to the Tishman Hotel Corporation
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Sweet Baby J'ai


For many years she worked pianist Nate Morgan, guitarist Ronald Muldrow, and drummer Sherman Ferguson. She has performed in the U.S., Europe, and Asia and at concert halls, festivals, and clubs such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Ford Amphitheater, Playboy Jazz Festival, Tokyo Concert Hall, and Casablanca's Super Dome. Her debut album "The Art of Blue" (1998) was followed by "Evolution" (2003). Both included Morgan and Edwards. In 2005, "Jazz Baby" was released
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Bryce Dessner


Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and was performed by the LA Phil, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel; "Wave Movements," an orchestral work co-composed with Richard Reed Parry and featuring visuals by the photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto, which premiered at the Barbican Concert Hall in London in the spring of 2015; "40 Canons" for the Grammy Award-winning Kronos Quartet, which premiered at the Barbican Concert Hall in London in the spring of 2014; "Reponse Lutoslawski" for the National Audiovisual Institute of Poland, which
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Ahmad Jafari


Architecture. In 1963 he moved to United States and studied Architecture at the University of Utah and worked in an architecture firm as an intern architect in both Utah and California. After a few months, he left the university and joined Disneyland engineering department as an architect in 1966. He served The Walt Disney Company as an Architect and Art Director from 1966 to 2004. Val H. Usle, executive director of architecture at The Walt Disney Company awarded Ahmad for "Recognizing 35 magical years with the Walt Disney company" quoting:"All of us
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Pink Martini


at the Hollywood Bowl, the Boston Pops, the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center, the San Francisco Symphony, and the BBC Concert Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall in London. Other appearances include the grand opening of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, with return sold-out engagements for New Year's Eve 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2011; two sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall; the opening party of the remodeled Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the Governor
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Contemporary architecture


unique among concert halls in having two walls made entirely of glass. Nicolai Ouroussoff, architecture critic from "The New York Times", wrote "The building's chiseled concrete form, resting on a carpet of polished stone, suggests a bomb about to explode. He declared that in its originality it was one of the most important concert halls built in the last 100 years". ranking with the Walt Disney Concert Hall, in Los Angeles, and the Berliner Philharmonie. The interior of the Copenhagen Opera House by Henning Larsen
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Walt Disney World Casting Center


The Walt Disney World Casting Center is the official center for employment and recruiting for the Walt Disney World Resort. Designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects and built by Orlando-based design-build company, H. J. High Construction, the building opened in 1989. The Casting Center is located across from the Disney Springs complex near the Team Disney building and borders the Walt Disney World property on Interstate 4 with the purpose of advertising Walt Disney World job opportunities to commuters traveling by on the busy interstate. Decorative landscaping and parking surround the
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Peter Rainer


Peter Rainer is a German violinist, known by his activity as a concert master and performance of chamber music. He has been performing at famous music halls such as Berliner Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall in New York City, and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Since 1994 he is concert master of the international chamber string orchestra I Palpiti conducted by Eduard Schmieder. 2005 Peter Rainer was honoured by the city of Los Angeles for his merits about culture. 1996-2000 Peter Rainer was the first concert master of the Brandenburg Philharmonic
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James Clemens High School


2017. The school's single choir, dubbed the "JC Jet Choir" is made up of approximately 80 students and hosts a Christmas concert and Spring concert annually. The group competes biennially in Festival Disney at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. The music program as a whole has boasted relative success since the school's establishment. The choir has received numerous awards for their performances in competition including an invitation to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City, New York in the spring of 2018. The concert
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Luther College (Iowa)


Salt Lake City; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles; Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center in Chicago; Orchestra Hall and the State Theatre in Minneapolis; and the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in Saint Paul. Under Noble's direction, Luther ensembles also appeared at historic cathedrals and concert halls throughout Europe, Russia, and Scandinavia, as well as on the programs of many national conventions of the American Bandmasters Association, the American Choral Directors Association, and the Music Educators National Conference. The Nordic
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H. Robert Reynolds


the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, which is made up primarily of members from the Detroit Symphony. H. Robert Reynolds has conducted in Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center (New York), Orchestra Hall (Chicago), Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), Powell Symphony Hall (St. Louis), Academy of Music (Philadelphia), and Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles). In Europe, he conducted the premiere of an opera for La Scala Opera (Milan, Italy), and concerts at the prestigious Maggio
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Marcello Vitale


Il Socrate immaginario" by Giovanni Paisiello (Director and musical review by R. De Simone) represented in the month of September to San Carlo Theatre in Naples. Since 2001 collaborates with the ensemble "L'Arpeggiata" directed by Christina Pluhar, with whom he recorded two CDs for the label Alpha, one for Naïve and three for EMI and performed in the most important concert halls around the world such as Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Barbican Center in London, the Wigmore Hall
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Jane Goodall


(formerly the Optimum Population Trust). She has received many tributes, honours, and awards from local governments, schools, institutions, and charities around the world. Goodall is honoured by The Walt Disney Company with a plaque on the Tree of Life at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom theme park, alongside a carving of her beloved David Greybeard, the original chimpanzee that approached Goodall during her first year at Gombe. In 2010, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds held a benefit concert at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington DC to
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Delaware North


in New York City, California, and Orlando, Fla. Among them are: Rockefeller Center, Lincoln Center, Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Empire State Building, Grand Central Terminal/MetLife Building and Madison Square Garden. Patina is also the official caterer for the Creative Arts Ball and the Emmy Awards Governors Ball. Delaware North Companies Travel Hospitality Services operates food, beverage and retail at airports and toll plazas throughout the United States. The company operates at venues such as Los Angeles International Airport,
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Roy O. Disney


Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) in Los Angeles. One of the Walt Disney World Railroad locomotives was named after Roy. On June 6, 2002, his son Roy E. Disney rededicated this locomotive in his father's honor. As of 2016, this locomotive became a hundred years old. One of the Hong Kong Disneyland Railroad locomotives is also named the Roy O. Disney. The Roy O. Disney Concert Hall, the primary performance space for the Herb Alpert School of Music at the California Institute of the Arts (of which Disney
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Mariza


New York's Carnegie Hall and Central Park, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Barbican, Hollywood Bowl, London's Royal Albert Hall, Union Chapel, Royal Festival Hall, Lisbon's Centro Cultural de Belém, Frankfurt's Alte Oper, Paris' Théâtre de la Ville, Madrid's Teatro Albéniz, Barcelona's Teatro Grec, X Cairo International Song Festival 2004, Centro Cultural de Macau, Moscow International House of Music, Toronto's Massey Hall, Sydney Opera House and the National Concert Hall in Dublin in February 2010. Her album
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Postmodern architecture


the orchestra. Around it on all sides rise the terraces, like vineyards. Corresponding to an earthly landscape, the ceiling above appears like a sky." Following his description, future concert halls, such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall by Frank Gehry in Los Angeles, and the Philharmonie de Paris of Jean Nouvel (2015) used the term "vineyard style" and placed the orchestra in the center, instead of on a stage at the end of the hall. Postmodern architecture first emerged as a reaction against the doctrines
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Susan Egan


as Julie. She sings with symphonies, as well; she performed in concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall with the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles in November 2004. From 2002 to 2003, she was the interim artistic director of the Orange County High School of the Arts. On June 6, 2016, Egan appeared alongside Brad Kane at the Hollywood Bowl as opening acts for Disney's "The Little Mermaid Live" show. Egan performed a medley of songs from "Beauty and the Beast". The June
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Lim Hyung-joo


give a solo concert in that venue. The performance was very highly received. Lim performed with the world's major venues and orchestras. He gave performances in New York's Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center, and Hollywood Bowl, Walt Disney Concert Hall & Orpheum Theatrein Los Angeles, Main Hall of Knafel Center at Harvard University in Boston, St John's Smith Square in London and Wiener Konzerthaus, Paris' Salle Gaveau, and The Cathedral of Saint-Louis des Invalides and La Madeleine in Paris,
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Walt Disney Concert Hall


much as . There was also the increased risk of traffic accidents due to blinding sunlight reflected from the polished surfaces. After complaints from neighboring buildings and residents, the owners asked Gehry Partners to come up with a solution. Their response was a computer analysis of the building's surfaces identifying the offending panels. In 2005 these were dulled by lightly sanding the panels to eliminate unwanted glare. The design of the hall included a large concert organ, completed in 2004, which was used in a special concert for the July 2004 National
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Thomas Lauderdale


include two sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall in 2007 & 2009; the grand opening of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, with return sold-out engagements for New Year's Eve 2003, 2004, 2008, 2011 & 2014; the opening party of the New York Museum of Modern Art; the Governor's Ball at the 80th Annual Academy Awards in 2008; the opening of the 2008 Sydney Festival in Australia; two sold-out concerts at Paris' legendary L'Olympia Theatre in
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Charles Mingus


, during the cataloging process after Mingus' death. With the help of a grant from the Ford Foundation, the score and instrumental parts were copied, and the piece itself was premiered by a 30-piece orchestra, conducted by Gunther Schuller. This concert was produced by Mingus' widow, Sue Graham Mingus, at Alice Tully Hall on June 3, 1989, 10 years after Mingus' death. It was performed again at several concerts in 2007. The performance at Walt Disney Concert Hall is available on NPR. Hal Leonard published
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Walt Disney Concert Hall


of the Regional Connector Transit Corridor subway under 2nd Street where it passes the hall and the Colburn School of Music. Metro will use procedures to ensure that the rumble of trains does not intrude on the sound quality of recordings made in the venues or mar audiences' musical experience within this sensitive stretch of the tunnel. Metro will also build an elevated walkway from the station to the concert hall. After the construction, modifications were made to the Founders Room exterior; while most of the building's exterior was designed with stainless steel
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Doug Lawrence (jazz)


Hank Jones, Mel Lewis, and George Cables as well as recording four albums as a leader - "Soul Carnival", "High Heel Sneakers", "Big Band Swing" and "Street Wise". Lawrence served in the West Point Band's Jazz Knights in the early 1980s as the lead tenor saxophonist. Lawrence has been a featured performer at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Village Vanguard, the Walt Disney Concert Hall and at international concert halls and jazz festivals including the Sydney Opera House, the Moscow
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Julius Eastman


space on Carroll Street in Brooklyn. In 2007 the California E A R Unit gave a performance of "Crazy Nigger" at REDCAT (The Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater in the Walt Disney Concert Hall Complex). Eastman's piece "Crazy Nigger" was performed March 15, 2008, during 7th Edition Dag in de Branding Festival, The Hague, the Netherlands. On February 10, 2012, Luciano Chessa curated for Sarah Cahill's L@te Series of the Berkeley Art Museum/PFA the first Eastman retrospective. The concert
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Disney Music Group


Disney Music Group (DMG) is the music recording arm of The Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company. It is located at the studio's headquarters in Burbank, California. The division's subsidiaries consist of three owned record labels—Walt Disney Records, Hollywood Records and Fox Music—along with Disney Music Publishing, the publishing entity that administers the company's music, as well as Disney Concerts. Music was key to the Disney Brother Studios' success. Either public domain or original music were used
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Wayne Marshall (classical musician)


Abbado. In 2004, he gave the inaugural organ recital in the new Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles. Recent recitals include Notre-Dame de Paris, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Royal Albert Hall, and the National Grand Theatre, Beijing. Recent organ recitals include Bridgewater Hall, Wiener Konzerthaus, Dortmund Konzerthaus, Basilika St. Kastor, Koblenz and in the inaugural organ concert at the Philharmonie in Paris. Forthcoming recitals include Moscow House of Music and Lotte Hall, South Korea. In March 2018 Wayne Marshall returns to conduct the Orchestre
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Vulnicura


" Four upcoming shows were cancelled, making the Vulnicura Tour her first concert not to travel to her native Iceland. Björk did not do any televised or radio performances to promote "Vulnicura" and none of the 16 Vulnicura Tour shows are known to have been taped, marking it the only tour of her career not be documented visually. On 21 September 2016 Björk gave her first of 6 acoustic-only live concerts, beginning at the Royal Albert Hall in London and ending at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
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Angélique Kidjo


February 15, 2010, Kidjo performed in Vancouver for the Winter Olympic Games at the Place De La Francophonie. On February 28, 2010, she performed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic concert hall designed by Frank Gehry. On June 10, 2010, she was part of the Official Kick-Off Celebration Concert of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, along with John Legend, Hugh Masekela, Shakira, Alicia Keys, Juanes and Black Eyed Peas. On June 17, 2010, she performed
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Sarah Chang


and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in a Sextet programme of summer festivals leading to a concert at the Berlin Philharmonie. Chang played a recital at [[Carnegie Hall]] on April 7, 2007, accompanied by the British pianist [[Ashley Wass]]. She has continued to perform with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen and make appearances with the former at both the [[Hollywood Bowl]] and [[Walt Disney Concert Hall]] throughout 2008. On March 27 and 28 2008 she played
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Ernest Fleischmann


executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1969, Zubin Mehta was conductor at the distinguished Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, but the musicians in the orchestra were not paid what they were worth. During his tenure in Los Angeles, Fleischmann more than doubled the pay for musicians and added a summer season at the Hollywood Bowl. In addition to improving the orchestra's financial condition, a $50 million donation from Lillian Disney that went towards the construction of the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall meant the philharmonic played in a hall
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American Idol (season 6)


stage and Walt Disney Concert Hall—and included many celebrity actors and personalities. The show also included numerous performers; for a full list of performances, see the main article. Ellen DeGeneres co-hosted the event from the Disney Hall stage. Proceeds from ticket sales benefited the fund. Videos of the results show's performances are available for purchase on iTunes, with proceeds going to charity. Due to the "charity" theme of the show, no contestant was eliminated on the April 25 results show. This was a
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Disney's BoardWalk Resort


Hall, and other features of the boardwalk were designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects. The BoardWalk entertainment district lies along a long authentic boardwalk, reminiscent of Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. Guests can rent surreys or bicycles to travel around the Epcot resorts, enjoy classic midway games and street performers, go dancing at the Atlantic Dance Hall or enjoy a "dueling pianos" show at Jellyrolls. The BoardWalk features a wide range of restaurants. The Big River Grille & Brewing Works is the only microbrewery at Walt Disney World
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Michael Graves


and his firm also designed several buildings for the Walt Disney Company in the postmodern style. These include the Team Disney headquarters in Burbank, California; the Dolphin (1987) and Swan (1988) resorts at Walt Disney World in Florida; and Disney's Hotel New York (1989) at Disneyland Paris. Patrick Burke, the project architect for the two resort hotels in Florida, commented that the Walt Disney Company described Graves's designs as "entertainment architecture." In addition to the Swan and Dolphin hotel buildings, Graves
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Casa da Música


a building whose intellectual ardor is matched by its sensual beauty". He also compared it to the "exuberant design" in Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. "Only looking into the original aspect of the building, this is one of the most important concert halls built in the last 100 years". He compares it to the Walt Disney Concert Hall, in Los Angeles, and the Berliner Philharmonie. A foundation, the "Fundação Casa da Música", was instituted on 26 January 2006 under decree
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Bernadette Peters


, and also aired on U.S. Public Television stations in 1999. She continues to perform her solo concert at venues around the U.S., such as the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, and with symphony orchestras such as the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Hall. In a review of her 2002 Radio City Music Hall concert, Stephen Holden of "The New York Times" described Peters as "the peaches-and-cream embodiment of an ageless storybook princess
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Paul Romero


considered to be one of the top-level competitions for amateur musicians in the world. He has performed in cities such as Tokyo, London, Paris, New York and Washington D.C. Some of his concert highlights have been performances at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California, the Mexican Embassy in Washington D.C., the Palace of the France-Americique Institute in Paris, Carnegie Hall in New York, and two performances at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, Germany as well as one performance at the Berliner Philharmonie. His
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Stereophonic sound


multiple Class A telephone lines. Leopold Stokowski, normally the orchestra's conductor, was present in Constitution Hall to control the sound mix. Five years later, the same system would be expanded onto multi-channel film recording and used from the concert hall in Philadelphia to the recording labs at Bell Labs in New Jersey in order to record Walt Disney's "Fantasia" (1940) in what Disney called Fantasound. Later that same year, Bell Labs also demonstrated binaural sound, at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933 using
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Anaheim Ice


Disney Ice was commissioned by Disney's then-CEO Michael Eisner, who said, "I was looking for the next generation of American architects -- and he was on the list of architects who were pushing the envelope. We bought a hockey team. We needed a practice rink." The facility resembles a pair of huge quonset huts, and has a wooden interior with laminated beams and braces, producing "a nautical effect that recalls the inverted ship shape of Gehry's Disney Concert Hall". It opened in 1995.
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Walt Disney Concert Hall


the following account: The hall met with laudatory approval from nearly all of its listeners, including its performers. In an interview with PBS, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, said, "The sound, of course, was my greatest concern, but now I am totally happy, and so is the orchestra," and later said, "Everyone can now hear what the L.A. Phil is supposed to sound like." This remains one of the most successful grand openings of a concert
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First Lutheran Church of Venice


the church's restoration, following a 1998 electrical fire which gutted the sanctuary. Concerts take advantage of the fact that First Lutheran, "boasts an acoustically reverberant hall in which everything sounds entrancing." The church's pipe organ, which was designed in 2004 by the builder of those at Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, is also featured in the events. The church also features an external mural, "Jesus Roller Skating with Friends in Venice Beach", created in 1997 by Ft
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Saint Mary's College (Indiana)


the new Walt Disney Concert Hall. The Choir tours nationally every other year, and regularly performs with the University of Notre Dame Glee Club in joint performances of major works with the South Bend Symphony Orchestra. In March 2011, the choir traveled to China to sing at colleges and universities in Shanghai, Nanjing, and Suzhou. They have appeared in concert at Carnegie Hall in 1999 and 2001, and returned there in November 2005 to perform music by Gwyneth Walker for women's voices and orchestra. The Women's Choir has recorded
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Nobuo Uematsu


May 10, 2004, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California, and was performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale. It was conducted by Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra director Miguel Harth-Bedoya. Due to a positive reception, a concert series for North America followed. On May 16, 2005, a follow-up concert called was performed in Los Angeles at the Gibson Amphitheatre; the concert was conducted by Grammy Award-winning Arnie Roth. Uematsu also made a guest
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Gustavo Dudamel


, a free concert, and conducted his official inaugural concert featuring the world premiere of John Adams' "City Noir" and Mahler's Symphony No. 1 with his new orchestra in Walt Disney Concert Hall on 8 October. In February 2011, the orchestra announced the extension of Dudamel's contract through the end of the 2018–2019 season, including the orchestra's 100th anniversary. Dudamel performed his "Libertador" orchestral film suite with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl in the "Noche de Cine" concert special, 30
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Berliner Philharmonie


(1981), Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles (2003), and the Philharmonie de Paris (2014). Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck and his quartet recorded three live performances at the hall; "Dave Brubeck in Berlin" (1964), "Live at the Berlin Philharmonie" (1970), and "We're All Together Again for the First Time" (1973). Miles Davis's at the hall has also been released on DVD. On 20 May 2008 a fire broke out at the hall
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Henry Brant


at The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "Tremors", for 4 singers and 16 instrumentalists, commissioned by the Getty Research Institute, premiered on June 4, 2004, at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. "Tremors" was repeated in a Green Umbrella concert at LA's Walt Disney Concert Hall on November 1, 2004. "Ghosts & Gargoyles", a concerto for flute solo with flute orchestra, for New Music Concerts, Toronto had its premiere on May 26, 2002. "
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Bash (Glee)


her Broadway debut in "Funny Girl". She, Kurt, and Blaine Anderson (Darren Criss) perform at NYADA. The episode features several songs by Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. A number of these were filmed on location in the Walt Disney Concert Hall building, which is used for the NYADA Round Room concert hall. Special guest star Whoopi Goldberg returns as NYADA dean Carmen Tibideaux. Recurring characters appearing in this episode include aspiring singer Mercedes Jones (Amber Riley), Kurt's father Burt Hummel (Mike O'Malley
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Kevin Kwan Loucks


, Soka Performing Arts Center, and BP Hall at Walt Disney Concert Hall. In 2004 Loucks met concert violinist and future wife Iryna Krechkovsky at a music festival in Italy where the two were scheduled to perform together. Later that year they formed the award-winning Krechkovsky/Loucks Duo and have since performed hundreds of recitals together throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. They have performed the majority of the violin/piano repertoire with particular interest in the music of Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Corigliano, Debussy, Gershwin
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St. Olaf Choir


Directors Association at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, only to sing the next day in an acclaimed performance at New York's Carnegie Hall. Internationally, the choir has performed at the Seoul Olympic Arts Festival, the Strasbourg and Bergen Music Festivals, and the closing concert of the Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music in Minneapolis. In 2007, the choir appeared in a live simulcast of the St. Olaf Christmas Festival, which showed on more than 180 movie theatres across the nation and reach 2.5 million viewers on a later PBS
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Björk Digital


opening night DJ sets and intimate, orchestral, strings-only concerts, premiering at London’s famous Royal Albert Hall on 21 September 2016. Her debut at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, took place on 30 May 2017. "Björk Digital" is expected to be released on a wide variety of VR platforms as well as Apple and Android devices. The release date has not yet been announced. Björk first began experimenting with virtual reality technology in 2014 when she and director Andrew Thomas Hang
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Organ recital


Organ Recitals show off the organs in and around Temple Square, including the Salt Lake Tabernacle organ (most often in the Tabernacle) others are the LDS Conference Center organ and the Salt Lake Assembly Hall organ (occasionally). During the summer: Monday through Saturday noon and 2 pm. Sunday 2 pm. Non-summer: Monday through Saturday noon, and Sunday at 2 pm. To show off its new concert organ, the Walt Disney Concert Hall held a series of organ recitals in 2004 and 2005. There is
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Koncerthuset


immense complexity of the project. As of 2007 it had reached almost 300 million dollars making Koncerthuset the most expensive concert hall ever built at the time. The former record holder for cost had been the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles at 274 million dollars. The current record holder is the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg at 836 million dollars. The Danish government has refused to grant extra funds for the buildings so, the budget expansion has meant drastic cutbacks in DR staff and funding. The project has been a front-page feature
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New Zealand Youth Choir


, and the ‘Grand Prix Slovakia’ in the same year. In 2010 the choir toured to Singapore, Seoul, Shanghai (where it performed as part of Expo 2010), Brisbane, Canberra, and Sydney. The final concert for the tour was broadcast live on ABC Classic FM and Radio New Zealand Concert. At the end of 2013 the choir toured to Los Angeles (where it participated in a performance of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem at the Walt Disney Concert Hall), Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Boston
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Disney Legends


The Disney Legends Awards is a hall of fame program that recognizes individuals who have made an extraordinary and integral contribution to The Walt Disney Company. Established in 1987, the honor was traditionally awarded annually during a special private ceremony; since 2009, it has been awarded biennially during Disney's D23 Expo. Recipients are chosen by a selection committee, formerly appointed and chaired by Disney Legend Roy E. Disney, Walt Disney's nephew, former vice chairman and director emeritus of The Walt Disney Company. The committee consists of long-time
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