Walt Disney Concert Hall Tickets Information

Walt Disney Concert Hall
The Walt Disney Concert Hall is believed to be the fourth hall of the Los Angeles Music Center. It is located at 111 South Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, California. Its location is bounded by Hope Street, Grand Avenue, 1st and 2nd Streets. It can hold 2,265 people with its seats, and it has been the home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale.

The Walt Disney Concert Hall was designed by Frank Gehry. It was inaugurated on October 23, 2003. The acoustics of the concert hall have been widely praised. The project was launched in 1987, when Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, donated $50 million. Gehry delivered completed designs in 1991.

Construction of the underground parking garage of the Walt Disney Concert Hall began in 1992 and was completed in 1996. The garage cost has been variously estimated between $90 million to $110 million, and was paid for by Los Angeles County, which sold bonds to provide the garage under the site of the planned hall. Construction of the concert hall itself stalled from 1994 to 1996 due to lack of fundraising. Additional funds were required since the construction cost of the final project far exceeded the original budget.

Upon completion in 2003, the project had cost an estimated $274 million, including the parking garage. The remainder of the total cost was paid by private donations, of which the Disney family's contribution was estimated to $84.5 million with another $25 million from The Walt Disney Company. By comparison, the three existing halls of the Music Center cost $35 million in the 1960s.

After the construction, modifications were made to the Founders Room exterior after the construction. While most of the building's exterior was designed with stainless steel given a matte finish, the Founders Room and Children's Amphitheater were designed with highly polished mirror-like panels.

The reflective qualities of the surface were amplified by the concave sections of sections of the Founders Room walls. Some residents of the neighboring condominiums suffered glare caused by sunlight that was reflected off these surfaces and concentrated in a manner similar to a parabolic mirror. The resulting heat made some rooms of nearby condominiums unbearably warm, caused the air-conditioning costs of these residents to skyrocket and created hot spots on adjacent sidewalks of as much as 140 degrees Fahrenheit.

After complaints from neighboring buildings and residents, the owners asked Gehry Partners to come up with a solution. Their response was a computer analysis of the building's surfaces identifying the offending panels. In 2005 these were dulled by lightly sanding the panels to eliminate unwanted glare.

The design of the hall included a large concert organ, completed in 2004, which was used in a special concert for the July 2004 National Convention of the American Guild of Organists.

The organ had its public debut in a non-subscription recital performed by Frederick Swann on September 30, 2004, and its first public performance with the Philharmonic two days later in a concert featuring Todd Wilson.

The organ's facade was designed by architect Frank Gehry in consultation with organ consultant and sound designer, Manuel Rosales. Gehry wanted a distinctive, unique design for the organ. He would submit design concepts to Rosales, who would then provide feedback. It is said that many of Gehry's early designs were fanciful, but impractical.

The organ was built by the German organ builder, Caspar Glatter-Götz, under the tonal direction and voicing of Manuel Rosales. It has an attached console, built into the base of the instrument, from which the pipes of the Positive, Great and Swell manuals are playable by direct mechanical, or "tracker" key action, with the rest playing by electric key action; this console somewhat resembles North-German Baroque organs, and has a closed-circuit television monitor set into the music desk.

It is also equipped with a detached, movable console, which can be moved about as easily as a grand piano, and plugged in at any of four positions on the stage, this console has terraced, curved "amphitheatre"-style stop-jambs resembling those of French Romantic organs, and is built with a low profile, with the music desk entirely above the top of the console, for the sake of clear sight lines to the conductor.

From the detached console, all ranks play by electric key and stop action. In all, there are 72 stops, 109 ranks, and 6125 pipes; pipes range in size from a few inches to the longest being 32-feet (which has a frequency of 16 Hertz). The organ is a gift to the County of Los Angeles from the Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. (the U.S. sales, marketing, service, and distribution arm of Toyota Motor Corporation).

The Hall was spoofed in The Simpsons episode "The Seven-Beer Snitch"; Frank Gehry voiced himself in the episode where the town of Springfield had him design a new Concert Hall for the town. The Concert Hall was then transformed into a jail by Mr. Burns. The first ever movie premiere at the concert hall was in 2003, when The Matrix Revolutions held its world premiere. In the opening moments of "Day 6" of 24, a suicide bomber destroyed a bus in the vicinity of the Concert Hall. The Concert Hall held Ellen DeGeneres co-hosting for American Idol during the special week of Idol Gives Back. Rascal Flatts, Kelly Clarkson, and Il Divo performed here.

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