The Music Center of Los Angeles County, a seven-acre performing arts complex in downtown Los Angeles, opened when the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion raised its curtain for the first time on December 6, 1964. The Ahmanson Theatre and Mark Taper Forum followed in April 1967. The complex expanded to eleven acres on October 24, 2003, when the Walt Disney Concert Hall opened, which includes the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater and the W.M. Keck Foundation Children's Amphitheatre. The Music Center records range from 1732-2018 and contain the files of the Music Center Operating Company, Otto Rothschild, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hollywood Bowl, the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the Center Theatre Group, fundraising organizations, the Music Center Education Division, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the Music Center Reference Library as well as memorabilia and ephemera.

The Music Center of Los Angeles County, a seven-acre performing arts complex in downtown Los Angeles, opened when the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion raised its curtain for the first time on December 6, 1964. The Ahmanson Theatre and Mark Taper Forum followed in April 1967. The complex expanded to eleven acres on October 24, 2003, when the Walt Disney Concert Hall opened, which includes the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater and the W.M. Keck Foundation Children's Amphitheatre.

905.4 Linear Feet (1,609 boxes, 224 flat boxes, 209 shoe boxes, 102 half boxes, 12 phonograph boxes, 8 magazine boxes, 5 map folders, 6 costume boxes, 6 cartons, 4 custom boxes, 3 telescoping boxes, 3 framed prints, 2 oversize flat boxes, 1 oversize carton, 1 negative box, and 1 open reel audio container.)

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