Birth of an icon Frank Gehry's Disney Hall

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Summary: The symphony of construction at Disney Hall is finally completed. The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra's long-awaited new home-a sculptural arrangement of billowing stainless steel-clad shapes-is the topic of this NewsHour program. Frank Gehry comments on how he designed the concert hall using 3-D computer modeling, while the Philharmonic's executive director and two musicians extol the virtues of master acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota's efforts. Sounding a dissonant note is urban planning critic Sam Hall Kaplan, who calls L.A.'s new signature civic icon an elitist misuse of money better spent on numerous smaller renewal projects.

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Physical Description: 1 streaming video file (11 min.) : sd., col., digital.
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Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2006], c2003.

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General Note:	Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on Jan. 11, 2006. Films On Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Formatted Contents Note:	Walt Disney Concert Hall: A Los Angeles Icon (3:18) -- Acoustics in the Disney Hall (3:09) -- Disney Hall: Conflicts and Criticism (3:36)
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