Word: pavilion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...special citation of unquestionable merit was given to the 18-minute experimental masterpiece called To Be Alive, by Francis Thompson and Alexander Hammid, which so far has only been shown at the Johnson's Wax Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. The picture will not be shown anywhere else until after the fair closes next autumn...
...Cover) In a dazzle of diamonds and decolletage, with cinema stars, celebrities and just plain millionaires plentifully on hand, the growing edge of the U.S. population explosion-Los Angeles-welcomed the growing edge of another U.S. explosion-culture. The Pavilion, first and most important building in Los Angeles' new Music Center for the Performing Arts, was open at last, and the crowd that swarmed through Architect Welton Becket's tapered white columns on opening night last week was justifiably moved to civic pride...
Inside, in contrast to the sharp-edged angularities and cool-toned decor of Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center, the Pavilion was all curves and warm shades of gold, coral and beige. The unusual dimensions of the auditorium-wider and shorter than most-gave a sense of intimacy seldom felt in a major concert hall; 90% of the seats were within 105 ft. of the stage, and each had clear sight lines...
...there was delight for the ear as well as the eye; from the first bright sounds of Richard Strauss's Fanfare, it was clear that the Pavilion was a superb musical instrument. The Los Angeles Philharmonic's brilliant young (28) Indian conductor, Zubin Mehta, showed the acoustics off with one of Respighi's chiaroscuro set pieces called Feste Romane, whose chief virtue is that it includes the most delicate pianissimos as well as the most plangent brass. The sweeping gold acoustical canopy carried the sound, clear and unblurred, to the furthest seat. And when Violinist Jascha Heifetz...
...sculptor. At the current sculpture exhibition in Manhattan's Jewish Museum, Agostini's plaster popovers are on show across from George Segal's plaster mummies. All summer long, some of his clustered plaster balloons hung, like monster grapes for a superbacchanalia, outside the New York State Pavilion at the World's Fair next to Robert Indiana's EAT sign, Roy Lichtenstein's cartoon, and Jim Rosenquist's billboard...