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Birth of an Icon: Frank Gehry’s Disney Hall

The symphony of construction at Disney Hall is finally completed. The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra’s long-awaited new home—a sculptural arrangement of billowing stainless steel-clad shapes—is the topic of this NewsHour program. Frank Gehry comments on how he designed the concert hall using 3-D computer modeling, while the Philharmonic’s executive director and two musicians extol the virtues of master acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota’s efforts. Sounding a dissonant note is urban planning critic Sam Hall Kaplan, who calls L.A.’s new signature civic icon an elitist misuse of money better spent on numerous smaller renewal projects. (11 minutes)

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Item#: BVL32839
Copyright date: ©2003
VHS ISBN 978-0-7365-8507-1
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