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Financial Times / February 27, 2001
The Arts
A CURVED STEEL PHOENIX IS RISING IN THE WEST:
The Los Angeles Philharmonic's new home has been a long time in the
making
By Martin Bernheimer
The date was December 6, 1964. Sprawling Los Angeles, the
self-proclaimed City of Angels, was celebrating what looked
for all impractical purposes like a cultural graduation.
The social elite and the county fathers had built a lavish, patently
conservative temple of art, a 3,200-seat concert hall atop Bunker
Hill in the civic wasteland that passed for downtown. Price tag:
$34.4 million. This architectural ode to conspicuous consumption
was called the Music Center. It provided a much-needed home for the
Los Angeles Philharmonic and, not incidentally, for its vaunted new
maestro, Zubin Mehta. The structure also served as a retort of sorts
from the Wild West to the Tame East. New York, after all, had recently
opened a fancy new auditorium at Lincoln Center, and suffered the
embarrassment of a sonic disaster.
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