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In 1987 Lillian Disney (the widow of Walt Disney) made an initial donation of 50 million dollars for making a performance venue as gift for people of Los Angeles, but may be at that time she herself did not know that this donation will become one of the symbols of ” Art Remix” in 2013.

Walt Disney Concert hall, built on 111 South Grand Avenue in Downtown of Los Angeles California, is a place where various forms of art meet in one place, and yet their mixture with one of the most ancient musical instruments, Pipe Organ, is wonderful and amazing.  In this field guide I will try to walk you through the process of making this concert hall and its organ.

 

 

Walt Disney Concert Hall

in 1988, Frank Gehry won the free competition for giving the best idea for making a concert hall in Los Angeles. Gehry’s unusual sketches for interior and exterior design pf the hall were like a “ship under full sail, with the audience of board journeying through a sequence of adventures” (A Forest of Pipes, by Jenifer Zobelein, 2007).

Though Gehry was a well known architect of his own time and even now he is more famous. He is an exceptional architect with abstract desings. (Frank Gehry) but this concert hall was his first concert hall and had its own issues. Gehry wanted a big concert hall with an Organ and this was a big challenge for him, because he had to make modern concert hall with an ancient musical instrument without ruining face of neither of them. Even his job was of interest of animation makers (Simpsons)

In 1991 Fran Gehry delivered the complete design of the concert hall and 1992 the construction of underground parking garage began. With a 2 year break between 1994-1996 because of fund raising, the concert hall opened on 2003. (Construction)

Pipe Organ

This musical instrument usually is used in churches and cathedrals.  called the king of instruments by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, this ancient musical instrument payed a big role in the history of music. (Organ)

Pipe Organ has different parts, pipes, wind system, stops, keyboard… (Pipe Organ Parts)

What makes the Walt Disney concert hall a unique musical instrument is its look. The main pipe of this organ is built of a 6 feet wood.here we can listen to Manuel Rosales talking about his master piece and explaining about it. (02 Track 2)

Walt Disney Concert Hall Pipe Organ

What the mixture of this different aspects of art bring for us, is that “newness” is not always in making everything from the scratch but also rebuilding what we have had from many years ago and modernizing them. In 2013 and the 10th anniversary of Walt Disney Concert Hall, the house of LA Philharmonic, there are many pop stars who are willing to be able to take part in this big project by promoting it (10th Anniversary). I believe “Remix” is the art of today and by remix I mean a vast collection of different types of art, from remixing music and picture and making a newly shaped music video to remixing architecture and music and building a unique big everlasting concert hall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Little child “Apparently babies don’t just cry when they’re hungry or when they feel like tormenting strangers on airplanes. They also cry when they hear their mothers singing gut-wrenching ballads, like this 10-month-old who was brought to tears when her mother serenaded her with Rod Stewart’s 1988 classic ”My Heart Can’t Tell You No.” The baby goes through a whole range of emotions, offering the occasional wistful smile between streams of tears.”

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Founded by Austrian government in 1955, Austrian Cultural Forum (OKF) in Tehran was the only cultural institution who was not shut down during the revolution of Iran. The mission of this institute is to promote cross cultural cooperation with Iranian government. During this 58 years, this institute has focused on offering German Language classes to Iranian. In addition to its language learning classes, Austrian Cultural Forum established a choir and Orchestra 2006 in order to deliver Austrian musical culture into Iran and also help the cultural exchange between Iranian and Austrian musicians. In a 7 year course, Austrian Iranian Symphonic Orchestra and Choir (AISOC) has become one the most famous orchestras in Tehran. As a result of this success nowadays, this institute offers musical master classes, where Austrian musicians come regularly to Iran to train new generation of classical music players.

This institute is located in one the most expensive parts of Tehran.  OKF is placed a large building with over 13 rooms, a kitchen, Library, music hall and a music library. The building is built around 30 years ago and used to be a house with a small garden and old fashioned. However, the interior design is modern with white clean walls, big leather sofa,  parquet, security cameras and halogen lamps. 3 rooms out of its 13 rooms are for offices, which are against each other to make the contact more easier for the workers. Music hall has a large piano and musicians can practice there. Upstairs is for library which is very quiet and full of bookshelves. Most of the people who come to OKF are young and most of them are girls because since it is counted as Austrian territory, women can cross over Iran laws and can be more free. Women can sing in OKF and it makes more sense when we know that singing for women in banned in Iran.

In recent years, OKF has started a theater group as well.

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