The lobby is covered in honey-toned Mexican onyx. The theatre lobby is an elegant two-story space that wraps around the east side of the building. Hong Kong-based artisans wove special carpets team members traveled to Bavaria to assure the precise cutting of the crystal that would be used in the building’s chandeliers and Becket engaged the finest acousticians of the time. The exterior walls are built of charcoal black granite and dark glass, providing a strong contrast to the fluted quartz-chip concrete columns and the broad overhang.ĭesigner Tony Duquette and Becket’s interior designers applied Becket’s “total design” philosophy to create an atmosphere of grandeur for the Pavilion. Measuring 330-feet long and 252-feet wide and featuring 92-foot high columns that rise from the Jerry Moss Plaza level, the Pavilion’s gracefully curving sides express the functional curve of the auditorium within.
Like the great music and performances, it would house, the Pavilion’s design reflects elegance and beauty while being contemporary and understated. A massive, curved structure with stylized columns, a gently swooping flat roof and a glass façade, the Pavilion was designed to fulfill the functions of three major halls, including a symphony with the accordant acoustics a grand opera, which requires a sizable stage and house and a more intimate setting supported by an appropriate sound system or orchestra for light opera, ballet and similar presentations. In conceptualizing the approach to the Pavilion, the architects and designers of Welton Becket & Associates were guided by the idea that the building must not show its back to any part of the city, and, hence, developed the concept of a pavilion. It is now home to LA Opera and Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center.
It served as home to LA Phil for decades and the site for more than 20 Academy Awards presentations (from 1969-1999).
The Pavilion has one of the largest stages in the United States and has been the site of unparalleled performances by remarkable music and dance luminaries and virtuosos. The first and largest of the four Music Center venues, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (Pavilion) was originally called the Memorial Pavilion and was renamed the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in honor of Dorothy Buffum Chandler. The Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
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