The
Hollywood Bowl
The Hollywood Bowl is a modern
amphitheatre at 2301 North Highland Avenue in Hollywood, California,
USA, that is used primarily for music performances. It officially opened
in 1922 on the site of a natural amphitheatre formerly known as the
Daisy Dell, and has been the summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
since then. The Bowl is also home to a second resident ensemble, the
Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
The Hollywood Bowl is well known for its band shell, a
distinctive set of concentric arches that has graced the site since
1929.
Popular entertainers including Cher,
Frank Sinatra, the Beatles, the Who, the Doors, Pink Floyd, Monty Python
and Judy Garland have given famous or noteworthy performances under the
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atmosphere of the Hollywood Bowl, the famous Hollywood Sign,
several miles away, is visible from the Bowl site, to the
north-northeast, behind and to the right of it from the spectators'
viewpoint. |
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Cartoon buffs may see a resemblance
between the concentric arches of the shell and Porky Pig's backdrop in
Th-th-that's all, f-f-folks; it is debatable whether it was intentional
(however, the Bowl did make appearances in various Warner Brothers
cartoon shorts, at least one DePatie-Freleng Pink Panther cartoon, and a
Tom and Jerry cartoon).
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after the end of the 2003 summer season, the Board of Supervisors of Los
Angeles County, which owns the Hollywood Bowl (seating capacity 17,383),
replaced the 1929 shell with a new, somewhat larger, acoustically
improved shell, which had its debut in the 2004 summer season.
Preservationists fiercely opposed the demolition for many years, citing
the shell's storied history.
However, even when it was built it was
(at least acoustically) only the third-best shell in the Bowl's history,
behind its two immediate predecessors (which were designed by Lloyd
Wright, the son of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright). By the late
1970s the Hollywood Bowl became an acoustic liability because of
continued hardening of its transite skin. The new shell incorporates
design elements of not only the 1929 shell, but of both the Lloyd Wright
shells. During the 2004 summer season, the sound steadily improved, as
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