$15 MILLION GIFT FOR DISNEY HALL TO BE ANNOUNCED.Byline: Rick Orlov and Reed Johnson Reed Cameron Johnson (born December 8, 1976 in Riverside, California) is an outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays of the American League East division of Major League Baseball. He weighs 180 lb (82 kg) and is 5'10" tall. Daily News Staff Writers A $15 million grant is expected to be announced To be announced (TBA) A contract for the purchase or sale of an MBS to be delivered at an agreed-upon future date but does not include a specified pool number and number of pools or precise amount to be delivered. today to push the private fund-raising effort Noun 1. fund-raising effort - a campaign to raise money for some cause fund-raising campaign, fund-raising drive crusade, campaign, cause, drive, effort, movement - a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported for the proposed Walt Disney Concert Hall This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. beyond the $52.3 million figure needed to keep the project alive. County officials had set a June 30 deadline for raising the $52.3 million as solid evidence that the hall can be paid for. Officials involved in the announcement refused to disclose the donor until a downtown news conference scheduled for today at 9:30 a.m. at the Museum of Contemporary Art. The museum is across the street from the project site, where so far only a parking garage for the proposed hall has been built. The donation comes less than a month after the philanthropic arm of downtown-based Atlantic Richfield Company announced that it would contribute $10 million toward the stalled project. Eli Broad Eli Broad (born June 6, 1933) a native of Detroit, Michigan is a Jewish American billionaire who lives in Los Angeles, California. His last name is pronounced as rhyming with road. Broad is well known for his philanthropy and extensive art collection. , president of SunAmerica Inc. and head of the private fund-raising drive, said the donation will go a long way toward meeting the $115 million needed to complete the hall, a futuristic structure that would become the new home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic The Los Angeles Philharmonic (LAP) is an American orchestra based in Los Angeles, California, United States. History Founded in 1919 by William Andrews Clark, Jr. . ``I'm very optimistic,'' Broad said. ``With this and other donations we've received, we should be able to move ahead on completion of the project.'' Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky said he was impressed with the private fund-raising effort to revive the project. ``With the exception of the donation from the Disney family, this is the largest gift ever made to the Music Center, and it exceeds the promise of the Disney Hall backers,'' Yaroslavsky said. ``This will serve as a huge confidence-builder to the arts community and the county as a whole. This builds momentum for the project,'' he said. In addition to Broad and Yaroslavsky, today's news conference is scheduled to include Mayor Richard Riordan; Los Angeles Philharmonic Executive Vice President Ernest Fleischmann; Andrea Van de Kamp, chairwoman of the Music Center Board of Governors; and MOCA MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA Multimedia over Coax MoCA Museum of Chinese in the Americas MOCA Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance MOCA Montezuma Castle National Monument (US National Park Service) director Richard Koshalek. In recent weeks, Riordan, Broad and other prominent civic and business leaders have stepped forward to pledge their political capital, and even their personal wealth, in support of the hall. They see the hall as one essential component of efforts aimed at reviving downtown. Other projects in various stages of development include a proposed sports arena-entertainment complex at the Convention Center and plans for a sports corridor stretching from Dodger Stadium to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum For board track racing circuit, see . Present use The Coliseum is now primarily the home of the USC Trojan football team. During the recent stretch of its success in football, most of USC's regular home games, especially the alternating games with rivals UCLA and Notre . |
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