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    Design and Architecture

    Music Inspired by Architecture

    Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Watts Towers as inspiration for music? Frances Anderton speaks with Art historian Thomas Crow of the Getty Research Institute and Australian composer Liza Lim about a joint Getty-LA Philharmonic program on music created in homage to architecture. Plus, a conversation with architect Richard Weinstein about who's been picked to redesign Grand Avenue!

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    By Frances Anderton • May 25, 2004 • 30m Listen

    Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Watts Towers as inspiration for music? Frances Anderton speaks with Art historian Thomas Crow of the Getty Research Institute and Australian composer Liza Lim about a joint Getty-LA Philharmonic program on music created in homage to architecture. Plus, a conversation with architect Richard Weinstein about who's been picked to redesign Grand Avenue!

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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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