Los Angeles Music Center

By Kayte Deioma, About.com Guide

The Los Angeles Music Center is Southern California's preeminent performing arts complex, located in the heart of the Los Angeles Civic Center. The main campus includes three original venues designed by Welton Becket in 1964:

• The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion - home of the Los Angeles Opera
• The Ahmanson Theatre, the musical stage of the Center Theatre Group
• Mark Taper Forum, primarily the dramatic stage for the Center Theatre Group

The addition of Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall created four new indoor and outdoor performance spaces across 1st Street in 2003.

• The main auditorium in this metallic ship-like structure sailing down Grand Avenue is the winter home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Los Angeles Master Chorale.
• The Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theatre (REDCAT) is operated and programmed by the California Institute of the Arts. REDCAT has its own entrance off 2nd Street.
• There are also two outdoor performance spaces used for summer family programs and other special events.
• View the Disney Concert Hall Photo Gallery.

In addition to performances by the resident companies in each venue, there is a wide variety of family and community programming including free concerts and family festivals on the Music Center Plaza. During the summer months, Dance Downtown is a series of dance lessons of all styles offered to the public on Friday nights on the Plaza.

Check the Music Center Performance Schedule.

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• Overview
• Location and Parking
• Dining at the Music Center
• Music Center Tours
• Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
• The Ahmanson Theatre
• The Mark Taper Forum
• Walt Disney Concert Hall
• Family and Community Programs at the Music Center

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