New World Center
Concert hall and academy for young musicians, its exterior wall doubling as a free open-air screen.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the New World Center in Miami Beach traces how a free outdoor screening tradition grew out of conductor Michael Tilson Thomas's 1987 orchestral academy for young musicians. It follows the ensemble from a converted movie house to Frank Gehry's building, and lingers on an unusual choice Gehry made inside: banking every seat so no listener sits more than thirteen rows from the stage. Listen for how he described sitting inside the music rather than watching it.
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