Music Halls of Yesterday
Hollywood  Bowl   as   it   was   in   1922,   first
season of Symphonies under the Stars
°hilharmonic Auditorium as it looked until
niddle   Thirties   when  "face  lifting"   set  it
MUSIC Halls in Los Angeles have had
a   varied   character   in   the   past   75
years.   Jackson M. Graves in his "My
70 Years in California" recalls that in 1875
there was  only one  place—the  Turnverein
Hall suitable for an assembly.
"Ole Bull more than once electrified fashionable audiences in the old Turnverein
Hall" which was on the west side of Spring
between Second and Third Streets. In the
next decade halls and opera houses sprung
up.
The great Adelina Patti first appeared in
Mott Hall over Mott's Market. It was "an
unassuming room without stage facilities."
In 1884 O. W. Childs built the first theatre
and named it Childs Grand Opera House.
Here celebrities of the stage appeared for
many years.
Mayor H. T. Hazard and his associate,
George H. Pike, built Hazard's Pavilion at
Fifth and Olive Streets in 1886. Concert artists, lecturers, famed evangelists, political
leaders were heard in Hazard's for the next
decade and a half. The Metropolitan Opera
of New York first appeared there. In 1904,
after Hazard's Pavilion was razed, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Burdette announced plans for
a new auditorium to be known as Temple
Auditorium. "The Birth of the Nation" was
first shown there and the Auditorium became known as Clune's Auditorium. When
the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
moved into the building for its permanent
home in 1920, the structure assumed the
present name Philharmonic Auditorium.
In its first season the Philharmonic Orchestra performed in Trinity (now Embassy) Auditorium on Grand Avenue at
Ninth Street. Simpson's Auditorium (now
the Third Church of Christ, Scientist), on
Hope .near Seventh, was the scene of many
renowned recital and other musical presentations.
Russian Opera and other musical events
went into the Mason Opera House. Blanch-
ard Hall was utilized for chamber music
and other programs. The Bartlett Music
Store occupied a large space in the lower
floor of the building. A. G. Bartlett was the
father of Mrs. Cecil Frankel, long a leader
in music circles, one of the founders of the
Hollywood Community Sing, a founder and
for nearly a score of years president of the
Philharmonic Orchestra Women's Committee.
The Gamut Club on Hope Street was
the scene of small recitals for a number
of years.        j* — .}  )
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All pictures on this page except Philharmonic
Auditorium and Hollywood Bowl, courtesy Los
Angeles Title Insurance Company. Story courtesy  John   Northcutt,   Hollywood   Bowl.
Hazard's  Auditorium
Turnverein Hall
Child's Grand Opera House
Mason Opera House