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1. MUSCEN_090801_027.JPG: "Dance Door" by Robert Graham Gift of Frederick R. Weisman Wikipedia mentions this is his first major work. Some woman looking at the work said Graham was known for naked women with unusually sized genitalia. -- Robert Graham (sculptor) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Graham (19 August 1938 – 27 December 2008) was a sculptor based in the state of California in the United States. His monumental bronzes commemorate the human figure and are featured in public places across America. Biography: Graham was born in Mexico City, Mexico. After the early death of his father, he moved with his mother, his grandmother, and an aunt to San Jose, where he began his formal training at San Jose State University. He continued his studies at the San Francisco Art Institute in California, finishing in 1964. Within five years he had one-man exhibitions of his sculpture at important contemporary art galleries in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, New York City, London, Cologne, and Essen, Germany. He lived in London for a period before settling in Los Angeles in the early 1970s. His first solo exhibition in a museum was at the Dallas Museum of Art in 1972. Since then he has had dozens of one-man shows, including several at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Graham's first major monumental commission was the ceremonial gateway for the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, for the occasion of the 1984 Olympics. He also designed the commemorative silver dollar for the event. The gateway featured two bronze torsos, male and female, modeled on contestants in the games. The gateway was a major design element of an Olympiad noted for its lack of new construction. To the surprise of many, the nudity of the torsos became an issue in the media. Graham used a range of materials and scales in his work. In the 1970s Graham created very small wax sculptures (circa 4" - 10 cm), depicting sexual congress. His 1986 monument to the boxer Joe Louis is a 24' bronze fist and forearm. He has created hundreds of nude figures and groupings in intermediate scales. He married actress Anjelica Huston in 1992 and they resided in an unusual dwelling in Venice, California. Huston refused to move to the Bohemian area unless Graham built them a fortress to live in. The result was a giant, windowless structure behind an opaque 40-foot fence. Graham made a cameo appearance in Huston's movie, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, as the Venezuelan general near the beginning of the film standing on the deck of the ship. Wes Anderson mentions in the movie's commentary that Graham has some aspects in common with Steve Zissou. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver announced on May 28, 2008 that Graham will be inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts. The induction ceremony took place on December 15 2008 and he was inducted alongside 11 other legendary Californians. Graham died 12 days after the ceremony on December 27, 2008. The artist's send-off was attended in early January 2009 by many famous faces of the art world and Hollywood. The funeral was held at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, which has great bronze doors that Graham created for the cathedral. His remains are interred in the Crypt Mausoleum of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Works: * 2007 - "Spirit of California" - California Hall of Fame Medal * 2002 - The Great Bronze Doors and Statue of Mary - Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles, California * 2001 - Prologue - addition to the FDR Memorial, Washington D.C. * 1999 - Charlie "Bird" Parker Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri * 1997 - Duke Ellington Monument - Central Park, New York City * 1997 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington D.C. * 1994 - Plumed Serpent, Plaza de C�sar Ch�vez, San Jose, California * 1988 - Gates of The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu * 1986 - Joe Louis Memorial, Detroit, Michigan * 1984 - Olympic Gateway - Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, California * 1983 - Fountain Figure No. 1, Fountain Figure No. 2, and Fountain Figure No. 3, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston * 1978 - Dance Door - Los Angeles Music Center, Los Angeles, California
2. MUSCEN_090801_073.JPG: Peace on Earth Jacques Lipchitz Given as a symbol of peace to the people of Los Angeles Lloyd E. Riguer, Lawrence K. Deutch 1969
3. MUSCEN_090801_125.JPG: Disney Concert Hall Atop of the five hills of downtown Los Angeles, there rises a temple that will be home to the deathless figures of grand opera: Figaro, Aida, Otello, Carmen, Rigoletto, and Elektra. And this mecca of classical music owes its existence chiefly to a fortune made from renowned characters of cartoon art: Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. The Walt Disney Concert Hall epitomizes the city's long striving for stature as a center of high culture, even as Los Angeles became the world's generator of popular culture. The roots of this hunger for the arts run to the 1880s, when various buildings -- including the German community's Turnverein Hall, the Grand Opera House, Hazard's Pavilion, and the Merced Theater -- played host to traveling productions of music and drama imported to a dusty frontier town that barely had drinking water. But bringing opera to a rough city of 11,000 was not easy. In the 1880s, when the Grand Opera House sprang up at First and Main streets, it wasn't the music that awed patrons -- it was the availability of ice water in crystal pitchers. In 1890, the city imported a diva: Madame Ellen Beach Yaw, "Lark Ellen," who built her nest in Covina. Yaw's beauty not only caught the eye of the Los Angeles Times' publisher, Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, but her glass-shattering, four-octave soprano voice got his ear -- and through him, the city's. Lured by ads in The Times promoting the possessor of the highest vocal range in history, skeptical audiences arrived armed with pitch pipes and turning forks. Borrowed Notes: Unlike San Franciscans, who had supported grand opera for almost 50 years, turn-of-the-century Angelenos were less
4. MUSCEN_090801_129.JPG: than ardent about the artistic medium. They were preoccupied instead with new oil strikes and the new-fangled electric railways; for recreation, men turned to golf, women to afternoon teas and musicales. Even local musicians usually preferred something livelier than "La Boheme" or "Un Ballo in Maschera". At last, the first grand opera arrived: on October 14, 1897, the touring Del Conti Italian Opera Company of Milan staged the first of three performances of "La Boheme." On opening night, only 532 people -- mostly native Italians and Mexicans, none of them society figures -- showed up at the lavish 1,200-seat Los Angeles Theater. The troupe garnered an enthusiastic response and favorable reviews, but only $327.70 in box-office receipts. With varying degrees of acclaim and profit, professional opera companies came and went over the next eight decades. Finally, in 1919, when music lover William Andrews Clark Jr. founded the Philharmonic, he decided the orchestra needed a home in the city's cultural heart, Pershing Square, and took over what would be known as the Los Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium. By 1922, the Philharmonic was popular enough to take musical summer vacations at the new Hollywood Bowl. In 1936, William Grant took the baton, becoming the first African-American to conduct a major American symphony orchestra. In 1951, as diva Jean Madeira launched into the "Habanera" from "Carmen," her body microphone began broadcasting calls from the police radio. A Rose to Call Home: After decades of having their appetites whetted by imported opera, Angelenos were ready for their own. At last, in 1986, British impresario Peter Hemmings presented the city's first permanent opera company, debuting with a production of Verdi's "Otello" at the Music Center.
5. MUSCEN_090801_134.JPG: But with four resident companies -- opera, orchestra, a chorale group, and theater -- the Music Center became a victim of its own success, and soon grew too cramped. That is when the concert hall dream stepped onto the stage of reality. In 1987, Walt Disney's widow, Lillian B. Disney, gave $50 million to build a concert hall. The world-renowned architect Frank Gehry called his unorthodox design "a rose for the city." On Dec. 10, 1992, on the site where the Victorian-era turreted Dome Hotel had once stood, groundbreaking began for the first phase, the concert hall's underground parking garage. But for seven years, the whole in the ground went nowhere, like an unfinished symphony. Like the plot of an opera, the project was plagued by dramatic ups and downs of rivalries, recriminations and a want of money. Finally, by 1999, members of Los Angeles' inner circle -- billionaire home builder Eli Broad, the city's millionaire mayor, Richard Riordan, and Performing Arts Center board chairwoman Andrea Van de Kamp -- had rallied civic-minded troops, extracted millions of private dollars and put construction back on track. For Southern California music lovers, the 20th century ended on a high note as cranes resumed work, and the new home for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Los Angeles Opera approached the day when it would open its doors onto a new century.
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Wikipedia Description: Los Angeles Music Center
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Music Center (officially named the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County) is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the nation. Located in downtown Los Angeles, the Music Center is home to the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theater, Mark Taper Forum and Walt Disney Concert Hall. Each year, the Music Center welcomes more than 2.3 million people to performances by its four internationally renowned performing arts companies: Los Angeles Philharmonic, Center Theatre Group (CTG), L.A. Opera and Los Angeles Master Chorale.

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Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
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The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center (which is one of the three largest performing arts centers in the United States). The Music Center's other halls include the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, and Walt Disney Concert Hall.

The Pavilion has 3,197 seats spread over four tiers, with chandeliers, wide curving stairways and rich d�cor. The auditorium's sections are the Orchestra (divided in Premiere Orchestra, Center Orchestra, Main Orchestra and Orchestra Ring), Circle (divided in Grand Circle and Founders Circle), Loge (divide in Front Loge and Rear Loge), as well as Balcony (divided in Front Balcony and Rear Balcony).

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Mark Taper Forum
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The Mark Taper Forum is a 739 seat thrust stage at the Los Angeles Music Center built by Welton Becket and Associates. Named for real estate developer Mark Taper, the theatre, the neighboring Ahmanson Theatre and the Kirk Douglas Theatre are all operated by the Center Theatre Group.

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Ahmanson Theatre
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The Ahmanson Theatre is one of the four main venues that comprise the Los Angeles Music Center.

Through the generosity of philanthropist Robert H. Ahmanson, construction began on March 9, 1962. The theatre opened on April 12, 1967 with a production of More Stately Mansions starring Ingrid Bergman, Arthur Hill, and Colleen Dewhurst. Since then, it has presented a wide variety of dramas, musicals, comedies, and revivals of the classics, including six world premieres of Neil Simon plays and works by Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson, A.R. Gurney, Terrence McNally, John Guare and Edward Albee. The Ahmanson also has served in the capacity of co-producer for a number of Broadway productions, including Amadeus, Smokey Joe's Cafe, The Most Happy Fella, and The Drowsy Chaperone.

The Ahmanson has the largest theatrical season-ticket subscription base on the West Coast. Its year-round season begins in early fall and lasts through late summer. In December 2006, it presented the musical stage adaptation of the Tim Burton film Edward Scissorhands, directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne.

Renovated in 1994, seating capacity can be reconfigured from 1,600 to 2,100.

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Walt Disney Concert Hall
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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. Bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, 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.

Lillian Disney made an initial gift in 1987 to build a world-class performance venue as a gift to the people of Los Angeles and a tribute to Walt Disney's devotion to the arts. The Frank Gehry-designed building opened on October 23 2003. Both the architecture by Frank Gehry and the acoustics of the concert hall (designed by Yasuhisa Toyota) were widely praised in contrast to its predecessor, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.
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