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Happy 95th birthday, Frank Gehry. Let’s give you the Disney Hall you really wanted

Over the last two decades, Walt Disney Concert Hall has blazed cultural trails like no place else. Starting with the “Tristan Project” in 2004, Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde,” conducted by Salonen with video by Bill Viola and staged by Peter Sellars, Disney Hall inspired a full expansion of the notion of what classical music could be. In what has been …

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L.A. Phil’s 2023-24 season lineup celebrates the 20th anniversary of Walt Disney Concert Hall

Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Frank Gehry-designed home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year with a 2023-24 season that will pay tribute to the hall and its architect, the orchestra is expected to announce Tuesday — on Gehry’s 94th birthday. This fall’s Disney Hall lineup will call back to Oct. 24, 2003, when a Times …

The Grand, a $1-billion towering collection of apartments, stores, restaurants, movie theaters and a luxury hotel in downtown L.A. across the street from the Walt Disney Concert Hall, left, has reached the halfway mark as construction carries on through the pandemic. Most of us believe the world will never be the same.” The goal is to make public spaces at …

A rendering of the Grand, now under construction, with Grand Avenue closed and projections on Walt Disney Concert Hall. The Crenshaw/LAX Transit project will add public transportation from the YOLA Center in Inglewood that Gehry has designed for the L.A. Phil’s youth orchestra and education programs. In our discussion, Gehry announced that he’s designing a community arts training center in …

How Disney Hall has transformed a downtown L.A. neighborhood and the city beyond

For this Grand Avenue project, we invited Justin Davidson, the architecture critic for New York magazine, to cast his eye on the evolving cultural density of Grand Avenue. Sixteen years after Frank Gehry’s marvel opened — and 30 since Lillian Disney made the down payment — Disney Hall is still spinning off energy, and the neighborhood around it is still …