NEWS: NY Phil home to be called David Geffen Hall

By Robert D. Thomas
Music Critic
Los Angeles Newspaper Group

David Geffen will ante up $100 million over the next eight months and the name of the New York Philharmonic’s home will in September from Avery Fisher Hall to David Geffen Hall. Details in the New York Times article HERE.

Geffen’s lead gift will help jump-start the NYPO’s fund to overhaul (sorry) the building’s interior, a design/construction project currently tabbed at $500 million.

Fisher’s name will be memorialized in different ways within the Geffen Hall (details in an earlier NYT article HERE).

In a BLOG post last December (HERE), I raised several issues that the New York Phil situation might raise in conjunction with the Music Center and, specifically, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Mike Boehm fleshes out many of those issues in his analysis in the Los Angeles Times HERE. Stay tuned.

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