The Music Men

摘要

Architects Sometimes Like To Talkrnabout breaking out of the box. Classical musicians, it turns out, have the same idea. Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony, wanted a new home for his other passion, the New World Symphony-a Miami-based orchestra and academy that provides up to three years of seasoning for young musicians. Frank Gehry was the perfect candidate for the job, and not just because he used to babysit Tilson Thomas many years ago when the conductor was growing up in Los Angeles. No one has broken out of the box more spectacularly than Gehry, creator of the mighty Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain; his Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles is one of the most inviting symphony spaces in the world. Now, at a time when symphony orchestras are suffering from declining audiences and revenues, what both men wanted was a building that would take classical music and launch it powerfully into the world.