Segerstrom Center for the Arts
The Orange County Performing Arts Center ( OCPAC ) is a large Concert Hall in Costa Mesa, California. Composed of several halls complex was built in 1986 and expanded several times.
The house is a cultural flagship of Orange County and regularly features performances by renowned artists and groups from all over the world. At the same time are, it is home of the Pacific Symphony, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County, Opera Pacific and Pacific Chorale.
- 4.1 event halls
- 4.2 organ
Location and Directions
The Orange County Performing Arts Center is located at the Town Center Drive in the heart of Costa Mesa. In the immediate vicinity of the concert hall is connected to the South Coast Plaza, one of the largest malls in the United States. The cosmopolitan coastal city of Newport Beach is located just minutes south on the Pacific Ocean.
Conveniently away is a highway junction, where the Interstate 405 ( San Diego Freeway) and California State Route 55 meet. The northern end of California State Route 73 is also located close to the OCPAC. The two major cities of Los Angeles and San Diego can be reached from here in each one hour by car.
The Orange County Transportation Authority ( OCTA ) operates several bus lines that stop near the concert hall.
Program
Events
The concert hall offers throughout the year on a wide range of cultural events such as concerts, cabaret, ballet and Broadway shows.
In addition to operating at a high level concert operation of all genres managing the concert halls also attaches great importance to the organization of events for young people and children. Each year about 500,000 students of all ages a variety of cultural offerings specifically tailored to them was.
A separate department of management cares beyond the distribution of free tickets for students from the nearby universities.
Visit
The huge complex of buildings with individual rooms can be visited. Guided tours of the house start every Wednesday and Saturday once a day at 10:30 clock. The tour is free.
History
Although the concert hall is still very young, it has achieved a varied history. Since the 1960s, there was part of the Orange County due to the rapid growth of the surrounding towns efforts to build a concert hall. This should provide events occurring worldwide artists at the highest level. In addition, had to be created for the two local orchestra, the Philharmonic Society of Orange County and the Pacific Symphony adequate performance venue.
In 1979, the Segerstrom family for the project donated 20,000 square meters of land. This created the conditions for a funded exclusively by private donations construction of a cultural center. The planning began in the 1980s by the architects Harold Marshall and Dennis Paoletti. For the acoustic Jerald R. Hyde was responsible. On September 29, 1986, the Segerstrom Hall was inaugurated in said first concert hall with a concert by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta.
When the family Segerstrom again put 20 million U.S. dollars available in 1998, we began planning a large expansion of the existing building complex. By further raising total of 200 million U.S. dollars have been collected in donations. The individual rooms are named after their main sponsors. Thus, the construction of the Samueli Theater with 500 seats was made possible mainly by the donation of 10 million U.S. dollars by local entrepreneurs family Henry Samueli. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on 6 February 2003 and was accompanied musically by a concert by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra.
On 15 September 2006, finally, the now several halls and theaters comprehensive expansion of the building was opened. The concert in the new Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall denied Plácido Domingo, the choir Pacific Chorale and Pacific Symphony Orchestra under its chief conductor Carl St. Clair. The day after the premiere of the work composed by Philip Glass The Passion of Ramakrishna for chorus and orchestra took place.
The entire inaugural festivities lasted six weeks. To this end all was the original philosophy according to a wide variety of foreign artists, such as the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre flown. Among other things, an open house was held, which was seen by over 10,000 visitors.
Architecture and Facilities
The architectural design of the building was taken over by the team of architects Harold Marshall and Dennis Paoletti. For the acoustics, Jerald R. Hyde was responsible. The visually striking concert hall is largely in the style of modernity.
Banquet halls
On the spacious grounds of the Orange County Performing Arts Center, there are several large halls:
- The Segerstrom Concert Hall with 3,000 seats
- The Renée and Harry Segerstrom Concert Hall with 2,000 seats
- The Samueli multifunctional theater with 500 seats
- The Founders Hall with 250 seats
Organ
Installed in the Great Hall organ is the work of the company Charles Fisk of Gloucester in Massachusetts. The Opus 130 of the company comprises 4322 pipes distributed to 57 registers ( 73 ranks ) and was completed in 2008. The instrument is named in honor of its founder, William J. Gillspie Concert Organ. A special feature of the scheduled in the French romantic organ were added after American tradition, a solo work as well as a Tubawerk to high wind pressure to keep up with large symphonic works with the orchestra can. The plant has, despite the largely mechanical key action numerous electrically controlled pedal transmissions and octave couplers. The key action is supported by a servo-pneumatic Kowalyshyn machine.