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OCTOBER 2003 Disney and Gehry give the LA Phil a flash new home

When Walt Disney died in 1966, he was widely lauded for his ground breaking animated movies and for his defining contribution to 20th-century American culture. But he had done his bit for classical music too – in the classic 1940 film , a brilliantly imaginative gallery of characters, images and animals disported to music by Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky and others. It

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