Includes bibliographical references.

Preface / Deborah Borda -- Introduction / Frank Gehry -- The impossible becomes possible: the making of Walt Disney Concert Hall / Richard Koshalek / Dana Hutt -- All shiny and new: Walt Disney Concert Hall and the rehabilitation of downtown Los Angeles / Carol McMichael Reese -- A barge with billowing sails / Michael Webb -- Variations and traditions: classical music in the twenty-first century / Esa-Pekka Salonen.