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When Nirvana were interviewed at the Reading Festival in 1991 and asked what the biggest concert they had played before the Reading Festival in 1991 was, bassist Krist Novoselic said that it was supporting Sonic Youth in Los Angeles. [17] This was the August 17, 1990 concert at the Hollywood Palladium which had a capacity of 4,400 people. [18]
The theatre was built as a result of a donation from Howard F. Ahmanson Sr, the founder of H.F. Ahmanson & Co., an insurance and savings and loans company. It was named for his second wife, businesswoman and philanthropist Caroline Leonetti Ahmanson. [2] Inaugural Program 1967. Welton Becket & Associates was the architect.
The Los Angeles Music Center (officially the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County) is one of the largest performing arts centers in the United States. [1] Located in downtown Los Angeles, The Music Center is composed of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Roy & Edna Disney CalArts Theatre (REDCAT), and Walt Disney Concert Hall.
The Mark Taper Forum opened in 1967 as part of the Los Angeles Music Center, the West Coast equivalent of Lincoln Center, designed by Los Angeles architect Welton Becket and Associates. Peter Kiewit and Sons (now Kiewit Corporation) was the builder. [1] The dedication took place on April 9, 1967, at an event attended by Governor Ronald Reagan. [2]
The Music Center's other halls include the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, and Walt Disney Concert Hall. [1] Since the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and Los Angeles Master Chorale have moved to the newly constructed and adjacent Disney Hall which opened in October 2003, the Pavilion is home of the Los Angeles Opera and Glorya Kaufman ...
Center Theatre Group is a non-profit arts organization located in Los Angeles, California. It is one of the largest theatre companies in the nation, programming subscription seasons year-round at the Mark Taper Forum, the Ahmanson Theatre and the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Center Theatre Group is led by Artistic Director Snehal Desai and Managing ...
About 30 minutes after Thursday night’s performance of “A Christmas Carol,” starring Bradley Whitford, Alex Newell and Kate Burton, at Los Angeles’ Ahmanson Theatre was to begin, the ...
The building's original tenants were the Southern California Music Company, who used it for sales and also hosted concerts in a top floor auditorium, [3] and the Singer sewing machine company. [ 4 ] In 1979, the Broadway Theater and Commercial District was added to the National Register of Historic Places , with Singer Building listed as a ...