MUSIC CENTER CORPORATIONS MERGE INTO ONE.Byline: Daily News The Music Center of Los Angeles County, the nation's second-largest performing arts center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. , has merged its two corporations, The Music Center Operating Company (MCOC), which directed operations, and The Music Center Inc. (TMC), which directed fund raising and arts education, to form a single organization. The boards of the two corporations approved the merger, effective Tuesday. The center's four resident companies - 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. , the Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre and Mark Taper Forum The Mark Taper Forum is a small thrust stage with 745 seats at the Los Angeles Music Center built by Welton Beckett and Associates. It has presented innovative plays since 1967. The world premiere of Angels In America was produced here. , the Los Angeles Opera, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale The Los Angeles Master Chorale is a famous professional chorus in Los Angeles, California. Grant Gershon has been its music director since 2001, succeeding Paul Salamunovich. - remain autonomous organizations with separate governing boards. Claire Rothman, chairwoman of The Music Center Operating Company Board of Directors, and Andrea Van de Kamp, chairwoman of The Music Center Inc. Board of Governors, will serve as co-chairwomen of the newly merged Music Center of Los Angeles County through the end of 1999. |
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