The Music Center of Los Angeles County: Five Decades of Music, Theater

The Music Center of Los Angeles County: Five Decades of Music, Theater, and Dance

SKU: 978-0873282628
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In this book, Margaret Leslie Davis presents the story of how a major American region recentered itself on the arts over the course of five decades. She traces the setbacks and triumphs as what was to become the Music Center developed world-class programs in theater, music, and dance, a saga ranging from the Civic Light Opera performances in the 1960s to the internationally acclaimed Ring cycle launched in 2010. The story of the Walt Disney Concert Hall unfolds over a period of sixteen tumultuous years, but equal attention is devoted to the programs of the Taper and Ahmanson theaters. Most of all, this is a story of the personalities who shaped the Music Center, including vivid portraits of Zubin Mehta, Roger Wagner, Gordon Davidson, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Placido Domingo, and James Conlon, as well as many of the civic and philanthropic leaders who, beginning with Dorothy Buffum Chandler, made their achievements possible.

Hardcover
264 pages
8.5 x 9.5"
Copublished by The Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County and Huntington Library Press

Margaret Leslie Davis is a prolific author of books about the history of the American West, a region she calls the "Pastel Empire." She has written three acclaimed biographies of the empire builders of the region: Rivers in the Desert: William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles; Dark Side of Fortune: Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward Doheny; and The Culture Broker: Franklin Murphy and the Transformation of Los Angeles. Her latest book, Mona Lisa in Camelot: How Jacqueline Kennedy and Da Vinci's Masterpiece Charmed and Captivated a Nation (Da Capo), has been showcased on ABC's "Good Morning America," excerpted in Vanity Fair magazine, and featured in the London Sunday Times.

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