HALL SPACE SET TO GO TO CALARTS.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer The 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. being built at the Music Center will include a venue to be used by the California Institute of the Arts California Institute of the Arts known as CalArts U.S. private institution of higher learning in Valencia. Created in 1961 through the merger of two other art institutes, it was the first in the U.S. , officials said Monday in announcing a $25 million gift to the project. The Walt Disney Co. donated $25 million toward construction of the downtown concert hall. The ``challenge gift'' includes $5 million from Disney Vice Chairman Roy E. Disney Roy Edward Disney, KCSG, (born January 10, 1930) was a longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company, which his father Roy Oliver Disney and his uncle Walt founded. (Walt's nephew) to be used by CalArts for creation of an endowment fund. ``This is a great day for CalArts,'' college President Steven Lavine said in a statement. ``Walt Disney and the founding trustees always imagined CalArts as an integral component of Los Angeles' artistic life. Walt left half of his estate to make his dream come true. After Walt's death, his brother, (Roy O. Disney Roy Oliver Disney (June 24, 1893–December 20, 1971, aged 78) was, with his younger brother Walt Disney, co-founder of what is now The Walt Disney Company. Roy served as the company's chief executive officer (1929–1971)-though title name wasn't given until 1968-, ), saw this new college of all the arts to completion.'' Disney Chairman Michael Eisner, Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky and 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. conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen were on hand for the announcement at the Music Center. Roy E. Disney could not attend because he was sick, so his son, Tim, made the announcement. Under terms of the gift, CalArts - which Walt Disney founded - will receive performing arts space, although the site has yet to be specified. And of the Disney Co.'s $25 million donation, $5 million will be used to create a fund, with the earnings to go to CalArts to produce and perform programs in the Disney Hall and other Music Center venues. The Disney Concert Hall project was launched in May 1987, with a $50 million gift from Walt Disney's widow, Lillian. The project, designed by Santa Monica-based architect Frank Gehry, has since been plagued by a variety of delays. But in remarks Monday, Disney Hall fund-raising Chairman Eli Broad said that $160 million has been pledged to the project - amounting to 80 percent of the sum needed to build the 2,350-seat concert venue, now scheduled to open in 2001. The Roy O. and Edna F. Disney CalArts Theatre will be named in memory of Roy E. Disney's parents. It will be built as part of the Disney Concert Hall complex and will be ``a showcase and a laboratory for the kind of bold and exploratory art-making embraced by CalArts,'' Lavine said. The Disney Concert Hall will be the fourth venue of the Music Center complex, and is expected to free up performance and rehearsal time at the nearby Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 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 hall is slated to serve as the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Boosters of the project believe the Disney Concert Hall - along with the proposed Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels is a cathedral church of the United States in the City of Los Angeles in California. It is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles[1] and seat of its archbishop, Roger Cardinal Mahony. and the sports arena to house the Lakers basketball and Kings hockey teams - will be revitalizing elements in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or . |
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