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1922: The Hollywood Bowl

Michael Goldfarb and Mark Glancy tell Lisa Mullen how the Hollywood Bowl became a cultural backdrop and silent character of film and television.

Created in a natural landscape feature, a conclave hillside, the Hollywood Bowl had already hosted religious services before its stage arrived. In 1922 the Los Angeles Philharmonic played its first season of open air concerts inaugurating a music venue. Lisa Mullen hears how the amphitheatre has hosted some of the greats of classical and popular music from Felix and Leonard Slatkin to Ella Fitzgerald. Michael Goldfarb and Mark Glancy discuss the emergence of a cultural landmark.

Producer: Ruth Watts
You can find a collection of programmes called Modernism on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 Free Thinking programme website which discuss other art and culture from the 1920s /programmes/p07p3nxh

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